COLUMBIA (AP) The former chairman of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legislative committees is set to go on trial later this year on charges that are part of a wide-ranging, ongoing probe into Statehouse corruption. A judge on Aug. ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Authorities say a former South Carolina police chief faces breach of trust charges after failing to return two guns to former employers. Richland County deputies say they found the guns last month at former Columbia Police Chief Randy ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A former supervisor at a South Carolina juvenile prison has been sentenced to a year in prison for ordering guards to hog-tie two inmates because they made too much noise. Court records show 36-year-old Nicole Jenice Samples was ...

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Cameron Littlejohn Jr., who served as an assistant U.S. Attorney General before working in private practice for over 40 years, has died, according to The State. He was 67. Mr. Littlejohn was the son of deceased South Carolina Supreme Court ...

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COLUMBIA (AP)  South Carolina lawmakers temporarily cut electric rates of a private utility by 15 percent June 28 to remove most of the charges they are paying for two nuclear plants that were never finished. Both the House and Senate overrode ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Members of a committee trying to hash out the difference between the proposed South Carolina budget passed by the House and Senate have made little progress. The conference committee discussing the $8 billion state budget met for the ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A federal judge has blocked the proposed shutdown of a plant in South Carolina which would turn plutonium used in nuclear weapons into fuel for nuclear reactors. U.S. District Court Judge Michelle Childs handed down the decision June ...

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The South Carolina Bar recently named a Columbia attorney as the 2018 recipient of the G. Dewey Oxner Jr. Mentor of the Year award. The award was presented to Brian Autry by Supreme Court Justice John W. Kittredge May 3 ...

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A Columbia-area attorney and law partner was selected May 7 to become a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. The global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars selected Bernard “Bernie” Hawkins Jr. for his “outstanding dedication ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina senators have given tentative approval to allow voters to decide whether they should continue to elect the state superintendent of education or if the position should be appointed by the governor. The Senate voted 26-6 on May 8 ...

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