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Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has lost his phone privileges and his prison tablet computer after his lawyer recorded him reading his journal entries on a call for a documentary about his case, South Carolina Corrections Department officials said Wednesday.
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In a small South Carolina town, a community is getting ready to show off a little-remembered part of the history of the segregated South.
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A judge has ordered criminal charges dropped against the final executive accused of lying about problems building two nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were abandoned without generating a watt of power.
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Police on Wednesday captured a man who had been on the run for 11 weeks after the South Carolina Supreme Court revoked an unannounced deal that cut 16 years off his 35-year murder sentence.
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A man who killed a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier has been sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors say he shot her after she refused to deliver a large package of marijuana to his home, instead leaving in the mailbox telling him to pick it up at the post office. The court found 25-year-old Trevor Raekwon Seward killed 64-year-old Irene Pressley as she delivered mail in rural Williamsburg County in September 2019.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has vetoed just $1.5 million out of the state's $13 billion budget for next fiscal year. He announced the vetoes Tuesday. The decision demonstrates an unparalleled level of cooperation between the state's General Assembly and its chief executive. Leaders in the General Assembly say they will end the 2023 session and wait until 2024 to take up the 11 vetoes. The $1.5 million is barely over 0.01% of the 2023-24 fiscal year budget or less than two months of Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney's salary. The new budget starts July 1.
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Army officials say a 40-year-old staff sergeant training to be a drill sergeant has been found dead after failing to return from a land navigation course at a South Carolina military base. Authorities say Staff Sgt. Jaime Contreras was found Monday nearly 11 hours after he was supposed to have completed the three-hour course at Fort Jackson near Columbia. Army officials say Contreras was only about 50 meters off the course but in very unforgiving terrain. Authorities released few details including how Contreras died or why he might have gone off course.
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Federal prosecutors say a South Carolina prisoner already serving a life sentence for murder used a cellphone to orchestrate killing another man. Authorities say 43-year-old Daniel Shannon was sentenced to a second life term for the latest death. Federal prosecutors say in 2019 Shannon was running a methamphetamine ring from prison and arranged to have a man killed who he thought stole from one of his drug runners.
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South Carolina House members and senators have reached an agreement on the state's $13 billion budget, Thursday's deal came barely 24 hours after a tense meeting where both sides appeared to be out of patience. The key sticking point — how much money to give Clemson University to make significant progress on the state's first veterinary school — went to the Senate, which set aside $102 million. The House spending plan had about $8 million.
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The $100 million deadlock in South Carolina's $13 billion budget erupted into public view Wednesday as the highest ranking House Democrat accused the Senate's budget leader of "putting pets over people." House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford directed the line at Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harvey Peeler for insisting on money for the state's first veterinary school at Clemson University. Peeler says House members have refused to meet with senators and are threatening pay raises for state employees, teachers and state law enforcement officers over the small, petty dispute. The state won't close without a budget on July 1, but no new money could be spent without passing the new spending plan.