COLUMBIA (AP) At least 1 in 10 S.C. high-speed police pursuits in the past decade has resulted in a crash with an innocent bystander, often causing injury or death,  according to a review of media reports by The State newspaper. ...

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LEXINGTON (AP) Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina sent driver’s license information, crime scene photos and investigation information to his friends. The State Law Enforcement Division says 32-year-old Brandon Jones was charged June 16 with public official use or ...

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FORT MILL (AP) A South Carolina police officer who was arrested in North Carolina has been fired. Fort Mill Police Chief Jeff Helms said that 55-year-old Tanya Moore Ervin-Leonhardt was fired June 3, a day after her arrest on charges including ...

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FLORENCE (AP) A South Carolina motorist was shot after a volunteer constable opened fire during a late-night traffic stop, the mayor of Florence said March 25. The part-time officer and not an accompanying city patrolman fired after a traffic stop ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four former South Carolina police officers who worked in the criminal investigations division for Horry County coerced women into sex or ignored cases they were supposed to be investigating, according to indictments released Friday by a state ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement and technology companies at odds over encryption and other issues of digital privacy need to have an “open dialogue” to try to resolve their differences, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is asserting. In remarks prepared for ...

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WEST COLUMBIA (AP) — A survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at New York’s World Trade Center is scheduled to address a criminal justice convention in South Carolina. Joseph Dittmar of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the keynote speaker ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) The State Law Enforcement Division is refusing to release the photograph of suspended House Speaker Bobby Harrell taken as he was fingerprinted and processed after his court appearance this week. SLED tells The Post and Courier of Charleston ...

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U.S. v. Galloway (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-01-0355, 16 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 12-4545, April 15, 2014; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Bennett, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A drug defendant’s complaints about his first retained lawyer’s conduct of his case have failed ...

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