A U.S. district judge in South Carolina has granted a federal inmate’s motion for a reduced sentence in light of the presence of COVID-19 at his North Carolina prison facility. The order is reportedly the first in the state, ...

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  As COVID-19 brought the country to a halt and law offices sat empty, legal firms shared the same mantra: “We are not closed.” Attorneys handled their cases and clients from inside their homes and through their computer screens. Now, ...

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There are plenty of signs in the statistics that South Carolina is seeing a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state. Friday, Saturday and Sunday each had more than 300 new cases reported, the only days where ...

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The committee assigned by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to plan to reopen the state after the initial spread of the coronavirus and figure out how to spend $1.9 billion in federal money finished its work Thursday. Accelerate SC submitted ...

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According to a study by Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of human behavior every day. That means roughly half of people’s daily activities are performed almost the same ways each and every day.  Our lives consist of ...

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  Attorneys and law firms have long had to deal with the mental health challenges that are so prevalent in the legal profession even in the best of times, and with COVID-19 both magnifying those existing stressors and creating some ...

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A federal judge says people voting by absentee ballot in South Carolina don’t have to have a witness sign the voting papers. U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs on Monday ordered South Carolina officials to not enforce the requirement for ...

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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill banning jails and prisons from using leg, waist and ankle restraints on pregnant women and women in labor, news outlets reported. “People go to prison as punishment, not for punishment.” McMaster said ...

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Handshaking is a key part of Michelle Ngome’s networking game as a marketing professional, which is why Ngome is already missing it as social distancing rules discourage the age-old ritual. “We didn’t realize how powerful the handshake is,” Ngome said. ...

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Clemson University plans to hold in-person classes in the fall but synchronize them with online instruction so if a student is infected with COVID-19 — or a second wave of infections closes campus — learning won’t be disrupted. Also on ...

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