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The retail giant Wal-Mart decided to increase its entry-level pay for managers above the proposed new federal overtime threshold in September. Peter Harrison is CEO of Snagajob, which owns Charleston-based PeopleMatter.
Defense attorney Andy Savage points to a video during the murder trial of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. Sla... .
He said the women worked for the school district in various positions and had been either fired or reassigned.” And: “He also sent a text message to Briggman on Sunday night: 'I Will Take Actions Against The District My Self As A Community Activists Do The Right Thing The Media's Is Waiting On My Call.' ” Lewis' text message alleged that district staff covered up sexual misconduct and warned that he would reveal it if his demands were not met.
As the cumulative death toll on civilization climbs, so does chilling recognition about the vile force inflicting it - and its evidently expanding reach. Of course, as Charleston area residents know all too well, not all 21st century hate-based atrocities are carried out in the name of Allah.
South Carolina's capital city has been singled out as a success story for how other towns can get inspired by “My Brother's Keeper,” President Barack Obama's initiative to empower boys and young men of color through combinations of federal grants, public-private partnerships and ingenuity. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin was invited to the White House on Wednesday to share with a small group of reporters what he and local partners were doing to promote MBK.
AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene, where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, in Charleston. South Carolina has primary jurisdiction over the case of a man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners in Charleston last year and thus should be allowed to prosecute him before the federal government does, a state attorney argued Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton speaks to and meets New Jersey voters in Newark, New Jersey on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Hillary Clinton supports the pursuit of the death penalty for the man accused of killing nine parishioners inside a Charleston, S.C. church last year.
As quietly as if a church mouse did it, the Georgia state holiday known for decades as Robert E. Lee Day this year became the decidedly more generic "State Holiday." In a state where the "Dukes of Hazzard" once careered around in a Confederate flag-emblazoned Charger named the General Lee, the decision by Gov. Nathan Deal to scratch the Southern war hero from the official celebration list should have elicited at least a few rebel yells, surely.