Hundreds of mourners packed a temple in New Jersey for the funeral of a college student who authorities say mistakenly got into the wrong car and was kidnapped and killed in South Carolina. Services for Samantha Josephson were held Wednesday ...

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The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina ...

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Prosecutors say a 53-year-old man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing his nephew on Christmas Day 2016 as he tried to intervene in an argument. Authorities say Roger Grate shot Darrell Doctor in the head on ...

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A 16-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday to two charges of murder for fatally shooting his father in their home and a 6-year-old boy at the South Carolina elementary school he once attended. Jesse Osborne faces 30 years to life in prison ...

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A judge has delayed until next year the death penalty trial of a South Carolina man charged with killing his five children. Circuit Judge Eugene Griffith Jr.’s order says both sides agreed to delay Timothy Jones’ trial, scheduled to start ...

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  Tyrone King was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his neighbor in 2012. The Supreme Court ruled July 18 that his conviction should be reversed because the trial court erred in allowing evidence of ...

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The location of the victim when he was shot was crucial to defendant’s claim of immunity under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, so it was not harmless error when the trial court allowed a paramedic to testify – ...

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Where the evidence could support a finding that defendant accidentally shot the victim, it was not harmless error for the trial court to admit evidence of defendant’s alleged involvement in another murder. As to defendant’s convictions of murder and possession ...

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CHARLESTON (AP) A South Carolina woman has been arrested and charged in the death of her baby that was dropped earlier this week. News outlets report that a police statement says 31-year-old Tamika Yolanda Williams of North Charleston said she ...

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WALTERBORO (AP) Prosecutors in South Carolina say a bullet in a wounded security guard shifted enough after a year to be safely removed, and it helped lead to a murder conviction in a related shooting. Authorities say 25-year-old Andre Crawford ...

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