ORANGEBURG (AP) The last of three men who escaped from a county jail in South Carolina in May has been captured. Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell says 20-year-old Curtis Green was taken into custody by his deputies around 6:30 a.m. ...

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Another South Carolina county will begin requiring mandatory e-filing starting this month. Beginning July 17, all common pleas cases filed or pending in Orangeburg County must be e-filed, unless the type of filing is excluded from the pilot program. This ...

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The wife and daughter of a trucker who was burned alive in an explosion after his rig collided with a tanker truck in Orangeburg County has received $11 million to settle a federal wrongful death and survival suit.

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Susan Weatherford, 82, was killed in May 2011 when the car she was traveling in became stuck on the tracks and was hit by a Norfolk Southern train in Orangeburg. The railroad company, along with the South Carolina Department of ...

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A fifth inmate has died at the Orangeburg County jail in about a year.

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Reeping v. JEBBCO, LLC : Where (1) the landowners’ new address was printed on their check when they paid their Orangeburg County real estate taxes in 2005, (2) the landowners included a handwritten post-it note to inform the county that their address had changed, and (3) a 2007 certified letter from the county about unpaid taxes was returned with both the envelope and the certified-mail green card hand-marked with the landowners’ new street address, the county did not use the “best address available” when it mailed a delinquent tax notice to the taxpayers’ old address.

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The mayor of the Orangeburg County town of Norway has been indicted on charges of misconduct in office and nepotism.

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Myles v. Main-Waters Enterprises, LLC. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-053-11, 7 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Orangeburg County Circuit Court. (Diane Schafer Goodstein, J.) S.C. App. Unpub. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: Even though a McDonald’s ...

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Curtis v. Blake. Although the jury awarded plaintiff 100 times more in damages than he incurred in medical expenses, the verdict was supported by evidence of other damages -- lost wages, pain, and an inability to . . .

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State v. Franklin. After being warned of his Miranda rights, defendant invoked his right to remain silent - not his right to counsel - and police stopped questioning him. Three and a half hours later, police informed defendant that the victim had died . . .

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