COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the Republican nomination for a third term. Wilson beat state Rep. Todd Atwater in unofficial results in June 26’s runoff. Wilson picked up 48.6 percent of the vote in the June ...

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AIKEN (AP) South Carolina is suing the federal government after the Energy Department announced it was stopping construction of a plant to turn plutonium used in nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s lawsuit ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina’s top prosecutor isn’t bringing charges against a congressman who pulled out his own loaded handgun during a constituent meeting to make a point about gun safety. Attorney General Alan Wilson said April 10 that the action ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A prosecutor who was asked to file charges against a South Carolina congressman who pulled out his own loaded handgun during a constituent meeting is recusing himself from the case. Solicitor Kevin Brackett said in a letter released ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina’s attorney general has requested a preliminary investigation of the travel and spending habits of a prosecutor who was on the road for more than 70 days over 21 months. Spending records cover Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan ...

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CHARLESTON (AP) Officials in South Carolina say a rising number of staged automobile crashes are becoming a problem in the state. Authorities say faked crashes were part of a scam that resulted in charges filed in November against 10 Pee Dee-area ...

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson will not challenge a state Supreme Court decision that says he lacks the power to terminate a special prosecutor he appointed to handle a political corruption probe, according to a spokeswoman for his office. ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a prosecutor other than the state attorney general can open a state grand jury investigation. The court issued an order Wednesday saying arguments in the case ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorney General Alan Wilson has called on South Carolina’s highest court to dismiss a lawsuit from a fired local prosecutor he previously had appointed to head up an investigation into legislative corruption. In a filing with ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A new special prosecutor says he won’t take over the investigation of corruption within South Carolina’s Legislature without court approval. Solicitor Dan Johnson says in a letter released Wednesday he wants the state Supreme Court to ...

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