COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s 2021 Legislative session opens with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and plenty of issues still looming that got set aside when the pandemic started last spring and brought most of the General Assembly’s work to ...

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COLUMBIA(AP) Sentencing is set next week for a former South Carolina lawmaker who has pleaded guilty to charges in an investigation of corruption at the Statehouse. The sentencing of former Lexington Rep. Rick Quinn by Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen is ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina lawmaker should not be sent to prison on a corruption charge in part because his prosecutor didn’t push for jail time for a police officer who killed an unarmed man and another ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Legislators are back in Columbia for South Carolina’s January-to-June legislative session. The House and Senate will gavel in the 2016 session at noon Tuesday. Legislators’ top priorities this session will be funding improvements to the state’s ...

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Legislators in both houses of the General Assembly are considering proposals that would prevent trial judges from dismissing DUI cases just because everything that happened during the traffic stop and arrest was not captured on film.

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The Commission on Higher Education could be forced to close next fiscal year under a budget amendment approved Monday by the South Carolina House, though the proposal's primarily meant to send a message.

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The South Carolina Legislature will not meet this week because of a winter storm forecast for the Carolinas.

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