SC Representative Arrested
South Carolina state Representative Robert (RJ )May has been arrested. Jail records showed the 38-year-old, Lexington Republican was booked into the Lexington County Detention Center Wednesday night.
Greenville Co. Youth Services Reopens
Greenville County Youth Services at the Greenville County Juvenile Detention Center reopened Wednesday. The facility closed in March of 2022 due to a staffing shortage at the Greenville County Adult Detention Center.
Oconee Co. Councilman Sues to Certain Funds
A city councilman in Oconee County has filed a lawsuit to stop the city from moving certain funds. Scott Morgan has more.
In a rare legal step, Councilman Grant Keehn is suing to stop the Walhalla City Council from redirecting $550,000 in enterprise funds away from the city utility budget to the general fund. In his suit, Keehn states that the city’s water and sewer infrastructure have become QUOTE dilapidated and that diverting the money would put clean water service at risk.
Off-Duty Officers Stops Suspected Thief
An off-duty Charleston County Sheriff’s deputy tackles a suspected jewelry thief while shopping at a local mall.
Authorities say Deputy Alexander McKinnon was in another store Wednesday… when he heard a man had swiped a tray of thousands of dollars-worth of jewelry… and was running through the mall. Deputy McKinnon chased down and captured the suspect… who authorities say, threatened his life. The deputy also works as a school resource officer.
Execution
Wednesday a federal judge told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die Friday, he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with the state’s lethal injection process.
Federal Judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko’s case to just lethal injection, since that’s the method the condemned inmate has chosen for his death Friday evening.
Stanko's lawyers had wanted to argue about the state’s most recent execution by firing squad... saying Stanko changed his mind about dying by bullets... because of accounts about the firing squad death of Mikal Mahdi and autopsy results that showed the shooters nearly missed his heart. Stanko is scheduled for execution this Friday at six pm.
New Legislation to help Close 'Chas. Loophole.'
Ten years after nine Black parishioners were murdered at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, Congressman Jim Clyburn is renewing his years-long effort to close a loophole that allowed the shooter to buy a gun.
Clyburn and other House Democrats on Tuesday announced new legislation to give the FBI up to 20 business days to complete a gun buyer's background check. Right now, it's only three. Twenty-two states have expanded background checks.
