South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The State Grand Jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on a murder charge for the drug overdose of a South Carolina man. Shiv Tailor also faces 14 drug charges from indictments handed up by the State ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a 60-year-old South Carolina doctor found guilty of trading painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs for money and sex says the physician wrote the prescriptions for legitimate medical purposes. Defense lawyer Chris Adams said Dr. ...

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The lawyer for a 60-year-old South Carolina doctor found guilty of trading painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs for money and sex says the physician wrote the prescriptions for legitimate medical purposes. Defense lawyer Chris Adams said Dr. Ronald Hargrave of Mount ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s corrections chief has moved death row prisoners for the second time in two years, this time trying to answer concerns over inmate treatment raised in a federal lawsuit. In their new home, the 37 ...

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By DAVID CRARY and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to countries “from which they came” has excited some in his political base. Yet in ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An inmate suing the South Carolina prison system says he was stabbed inside his cell and couldn’t find an officer to help him. News outlets report 34-year-old Devodus Rouse filed the lawsuit this month, claiming irresponsibility ...

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WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a South Carolina man spiked his live-in girlfriend’s soda with methamphetamine and muscle relaxers, leading her to black out and wake days later severely beaten and bruised. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office tells news ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man from Georgia came to South Carolina to have sex with a 13-year-old girl and threw her out of his vehicle while speeding away from police. Richland County deputies said an officer saw ...

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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who federal agents said exploded two bombs outside a South Carolina courthouse had his lawsuit about poor jail conditions in the same county thrown out just days earlier. The ...

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