TAYLORS (AP) A man has died after he fell from a ladder at a construction site in South Carolina. The Greenville County Coroner’s office said in a news release that 39-year-old Denis V. Popa of Anderson died about an hour ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) A man is suing a sheriff’s office in South Carolina, saying a police dog attacked him while he was on the ground handcuffed. Eric Sweet’s lawsuit says the dog had already bitten him when he refused to come ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) The biological parents of a 2-year-old boy who fell into a pool and died in 2016 are suing the boy’s foster parents. The Greenville News reports two lawsuits were filed Aug. 6 on behalf of Njamena Wilcox and William Patrick Henry ...

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SIMPSONVILLE (AP) Police say the former head of South Carolina’s Republican Party told them he killed his mother’s dog because God told him to do so. Simpsonville police officers tell news outlets that Todd Kincannon also said he was the ...

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GREENVILLE (AP) Two more South Carolina counties have sued major drug companies because of opioid abuse cases. Media outlets reported that Greenville and Spartanburg counties have sued drugmakers, pharmacies, distributors and doctors. The lawsuits say the counties spend millions of ...

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A jury awarded Stacy Capell $350,000 for damages resulting from a car accident that occurred in Greenville County. Capell was traveling north on Highway 914 in her 2009 Toyota at around 5 p.m. on Nov. 10, 2010. Benjamin Villaverde, who ...

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Octogenarian government watchdog Edward “Ned” Sloan Jr. has hit another roadblock in his legal battle against a Greenville County slush fund. Sloan and his longtime attorney, James G. Carpenter, have argued since the mid-1990s that the county violated its own code by letting county councilors use money from an account for road repairs and other infrastructure projects in their districts without first obtaining consent from the council as a whole.

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Grumbos v. Grumbos. The husband's representations about his income were inconsistent, so the trial court did not err in relying on the wife's evidence to impute income to the husband. We affirm . . .

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State v. Motts. Defendant is competent to waive appellate review, and he will be presumed competent unless he seeks post-conviction review on the basis of competency. Although defendant may . . .

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State v. Parker. Where the first trial judge ruled that prosecutorial misconduct goaded defendant into moving for a mistrial, the second trial judge erred when he denied defendant's motion to dismiss based . . .

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