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Embattled former Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson has now been slammed with additional indictments by a federal grand jury. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the indictments Wednesday.
It just came to me while I was reading: If Adam and Eve had not sinned, none of us would be wearing clothes. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley just outfoxed the blinders-wearing Stable Genius.
The president of the Urban Cookhouse chain of restaurants, who lives in Columbia, has been arrested in the Lowcountry and is accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward an employee at one of the chain's locations there. On Monday, Mount Pleasant Police charged William Gillespie Jr., 35, of Columbia, with first degree assault and battery.
About a week after Hurricane Florence began affecting the Palmetto State, an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 95 is closed due to flooding, along with 190 other roads in the state, per The State . The town of Nichols is underwater , per The Post and Courier.
Here's how area senators voted on major issues in the week ending August 3. The House was in recess. Both chambers are in recess the week of August 6. Passage of $154.2 billion spending bill : The Senate on Aug. 1 passed, 92-6, a bill combining four of the 12 appropriations bills that fund the government into a package totaling $154.2 billion.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announces he is vetoing $16 million from the state budget because part of the money goes to Planned Parenthood at a news conference Friday, July 6, 2018, in Columbia, S.C. McMaster made a campaign promise no taxpayer money would go to any group that performs abortions. less South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announces he is vetoing $16 million from the state budget because part of the money goes to Planned Parenthood at a news conference Friday, July 6, 2018, in Columbia, S.C. ... more COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster removed $16 million for health care from the state budget, saying Friday he wanted to make sure no taxpayer money goes to abortion providers.
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Airport High School in West Columbia, S.C., Monday, June 25, 2018, for Republican Gov. Henry McMaster. . FILE - In this Saturday, June 23, 2018, file photo, incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan, R-N.Y., center left, and former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, right, attend a property tax protest rally with New York State Assembly member ... .
In this Friday, June 22, 2018, photo, Mike Kennedy speaks at a backyard meet and greet in Holladay, Utah. Mitt Romney faces state lawmaker Kennedy on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, as the ex-presidential nominee looks to restart his po... A computer error at the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration failed to send changes some voters made in address and party affiliation to the state elections board.
Who really gets things done in the Midlands? We're not just talking about the CEOs and mayors - though some of them undeniably hold serious power - but the under-the-radar movers and shakers, faces you'd never recognize if you were standing in line with them at Drake's Duck-In. We also probe outside the realms of business and government, looking to the arts, tourism, hospitality and beyond.
John Warren, Republican candidate for South Carolina governor, holds his two-year-old son, Stevie, as he votes in the primary elections in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. less John Warren, Republican candidate for South Carolina governor, holds his two-year-old son, Stevie, as he votes in the primary elections in Greenville, S.C., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.
Poll volunteer Tom Spain hands out stickers to former Gov, Mark Sanford after he cast his own ballot at Alhambra Hall polling station Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. South Carolina Rep.Katie Arrington, who is running for the first district of South Carolina, campaigns after voting for herself in the primary election on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at Bethany United Methodist Church in Summerville.
State Rep. James Smith, backed by a former vice president, continues to outraise Democratic rivals in a South Carolina governor's race where one pollster says many voters still don't have a favorite. With a little more than a week before the June 12 primary, Smith also has more money in the bank than Charleston businessman Phil Noble and Florence attorney Marguerite Willis, according campaign disclosures filed with the state Ethics Commission over the weekend.
Today is crossover - the day by which a bill must have passed either the S.C. House or Senate in order to be considered by the other chamber . Crossover is the death knell for hundreds of bills, particularly as this is the second year of the state's two-year legislative session.
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A group of more than 100 pastors will visit the South Carolina State House this week, visiting with top statewide officials and meeting members of the legislature as part of " Pastor's Day 2018 ." The visit - organized by Palmetto Family - comes amid a contentious debate over this year's personhood legislation, which has tied the State Senate in knots for several weeks.
In a May 23, 2017 file photo, former Majority Leader Rick Quinn, left, and his father, Richard Quinn Sr. pause as they talk during a break in a hearing to get solicitor David Pascoe disqualified from the prosecution of Quinn in Columbia, S.C. Solicitor David Pascoe announced Wednesday, Oct. 18, that the State Grand Jury had returned indictments against Richard Quinn on charges of criminal conspiracy and failure to register as a lobbyist. Grand jurors also issued new indictments for two lawmakers already charged.
AP obtains a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. The recording of a high-pitched noise is one of many taken in Cuba since attacks started.
Remember when the PowerPoint-ish Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006 and revolutionized public perceptions of climate change in a way that chartered a new policy course for the United States and the world? What? Something about President Trump and pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords? Sorry, we haven't been keeping up with the news lately. Self-care.
Gov. Henry McMaster and other politicians have been angling to sell Santee Cooper, the Moncks Corner-based public utility, after the cancellation of two nuclear reactors in Fairfield county last week. Lonnie Carter, the CEO of Santee Cooper, helped announce the cancellation of two unfinished nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer station in Fairfield County on Monday.
Columbia-area blogger Will Folks answers questions during a hearing in Lexington where attorneys for former Rep. Kenny Bingham seek to hold him in contempt of court. Maya T. Prabhu/Staff Columbia-area blogger Will Folks answers questions during a hearing in Lexington where attorneys for former Rep. Kenny Bingham seek to hold him in contempt of court.