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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CHARLESTON (AP) Federal prosecutors say a South Carolina man who never served in the military swindled nearly $200,000 in health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Justice Department said in a news release that 70-year-old Keith Hudson of ...

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As part of a larger effort to increase resources for prosecutors in the country, the Department of Justice is creating four new assistant U.S. district attorney positions in the District of South Carolina. “With four new assistant U.S. attorneys joining ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) A federal judge says he needs more time to decide whether a traffic control plan for motorcyclists on the South Carolina coast is legal. U.S. District Judge Marvin Quattlebaum heard arguments May 8 in Greenville as the NAACP ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments this week in an NAACP lawsuit that says a traffic control plan during what’s known as “Black Bike Week” in South Carolina is discriminatory. The NAACP is seeking an ...

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For the first time in 28 years, pay for federal jurors has increased, but it still remains below the federal minimum wage. The change was included in the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill that passed March 23, The Washington Post reports. ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court will consider whether a North Carolina man can be forcibly medicated in order to stand trial on a charge that he tried to join al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria. Basit Sheikh is charged with ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bans on gay marriage in three staunchly conservative Southern states were to get a hearing in a federal appeals court Friday — the latest legal battle over an issue expected to be settled by the nation’s ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A former South Carolina lawmaker is appearing in federal court next week on charges he helped a businessman hide assets, then lied about it to federal agents. Court records show Thad Viers’ arraignment is set for Thursday ...

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Limehouse v. Hulsey The circuit court’s jurisdiction over these consolidated cases was suspended upon defendants’ removal to federal court, and the circuit court’s jurisdiction did not resume until it received a certified remand order from the federal court. We reverse the judgments in favor of plaintiffs and remand to the circuit court to recommence the cases from the procedural point at which the circuit court received a certified remand order from the federal court

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