ST. GEORGE (AP) A South Carolina county’s insurer has paid nearly $1 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit over a confrontation involving the former county coroner who pulled a gun on his black neighbor and used a racial epithet ...

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A Georgia man pleaded guilty May 1 to making violent threats against Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, over the phone. Jason Kenneth Bell, 41, of Bleckley County, Georgia, was arrested in October 2017 after calling Scott’s office and threatening to ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Students’ freedom of expression and due process are put at risk by a South Carolina law that led to the arrest of two high school students for videotaping a classmate being flipped out of a chair, a ...

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