COLUMBIA (AP) A woman has died following an accident at a construction site in South Carolina. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts tells media outlets 49-year-old Diane M. Smith of Lumberton, North Carolina, was working on a scissor lift at a ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A man who admits bilking a South Carolina project turning warheads into nuclear reactor fuel says he’s too old and too sick to go to prison. Philip Thompson, who admits the scheme took more than $5 million over ...

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There weren’t many jobs available when Sarah Leverette entered the legal profession in South Carolina in 1943. More specifically, there weren’t many jobs available to her, a woman. “My comment on that has always been I knew the door was ...

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Columbia attorney Joel W. Collins Jr. received the Governor’s Order of the Palmetto award April 16 for his service to the state. The award is considered the state’s highest civilian honor and is given in recognition of South Carolina residents’ ...

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A South Carolina administrative judge’s ruling has potential to change how liquor license laws in the state are currently enforced. When Judge Deborah Durden ruled April 4 to deny the Five Points Roost, formerly known as the Pour House, a ...

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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) The candidates vying to become South Carolina’s next governor are set to faceoff in two sets of debates planned before the state’s primary elections. The Post and Courier of Charleston said March 21 that it’s teaming up with South ...

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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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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some leaders in the South Carolina Midlands are floating the idea of merging the governments of the state’s biggest city and its second-largest county. The State newspaper reports advocates say it would result in more efficient government ...

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Steve Benjamin believes that African-American history is American history. In his office hang framed pictures of, among other central figures in black history, South Carolina’s own George Elmore and Harvey Gantt. If you ask him, he’ll downplay it, but Benjamin ...

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