South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a ...

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The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office has joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general to work with a dozen phone companies to battle illegal robocalls. Attorney General Alan Wilson signed onto a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission to encourage ...

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The pilot program for electronic filing of documents in common pleas court has been expanded to include Charleston County, the only one of the state’s 46 counties not already participating in the program. The South Carolina Supreme Court issued an ...

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Authorities say a would-be robber laughed, dropped his knife and high-fived a South Carolina drugstore employee after she told him they didn’t have any money or a specific brand of painkillers. Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Doug Barfield said 63-year-old ...

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A former member of the board that oversees South Carolina highways will have to stay in jail until a federal court hearing to determine if he violated probation when authorities say he tried to hire a prostitute. Prosecutors said John ...

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A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school’s former headmaster that he was unjustly fired and then slandered by the author. Jurors ...

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada isn’t giving up its push to get the Trump administration to remove weapons-grade plutonium that was secretly shipped to a site near Las Vegas last year, learning from an appeals court defeat and planning a ...

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AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man is suing Walmart, saying a gas can that exploded and set him on fire was defective and should never have been sold to him at a Walmart store in Barnwell. In a ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina hospital is trying to recover at least $1.8 million after it says a project to replace 600 windows went horribly wrong. The latest lawsuit involving the window project at the Regional Medical Center ...

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A former bank teller is accused of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from a South Carolina bank. Jasmine Gardner was indicted this week on one count of embezzlement by a bank employee. Prosecutors say she knowingly embezzled more than ...

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