According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the agency issued more than 41,000 new concealed weapon permits last year. But it’s not the guns you can’t see that worry some in law enforcement, it’s the ones that you can. ...

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There’s probably never a good time to throw a knife at someone inside a bar, but certainly not when you could hit the local police station if you turned 90 degrees to your left and tossed the weapon with a ...

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I like cooking my family and my pets. Let’s eat Grandpa! We’re going to learn to cut and paste kids! These are just a few of the viral examples of how commas not only matter, they save lives. And not ...

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As it types this, Sidebar—along with about 30 reporters who cover various aspects of the legal system—is spending the first of two days at the University of South Carolina School of Law’s Media Law School. Before lunch today, it learned ...

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We here at Sidebar are generally not fond of things that aim to eliminate sidebar, but upon closer inspection of a recent headline, the proposition of a federal judge in Iowa seems to be more juror-friendly than Sidebar-detrimental. As reported ...

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Sidebar doesn’t always sit through an hour of continuing legal education, but when he does, he prefers that it be about beer. And earlier this month in Raleigh, that dream finally became a reality. The local bar met at a ...

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However ill-advised and rude, flipping off a cop is not a crime, according to a 2013 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. According to Rock Hill police, it is. Or at least it’s a good enough reason to effect ...

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Sarah Buffett once told our sister publication, The Mecklenburg Times, that she fought the Department of Homeland Security for a living. “But I don’t always win,” Buffett, 41, said in the 2012 interview. Well she now finds herself in another ...

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Good initiative, bad judgment. That old Marine Corps saying could perhaps be applied to Columbia’s City Council regarding its July 9 weapons ban affecting the 250-foot area surrounding the State House. A day after South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson ...

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It’s a relatively common practice for inmates to clog prison toilets and flood cell blocks by flushing toilet paper, books or other belongings down the penitentiary john, but according to officials in Arizona, a prisoner there is clogging the dockets ...

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