Social media users shared a range of false claims this week about monkeypox, the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago and more. Here are the facts.
The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for people in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. All told, …
According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of gas fell below $4 on Aug. 11.
🎧 Investigations into former President Donald Trump, economic reports and the war in Ukraine were among the top stories of the week. Hear the details in this podcast episode.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will travel to Orangeburg with U.S. Majority Whip James E. Clyburn to meet with historically black college and university leaders from across the state.
Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden. The House approved the bill over solid Republican opposition Friday, five days after the Senate did the same. The vote means a win for Biden that until…
Its arms may be small, but it’s armored head to toe.
Its arms may be small, but it’s armored head to toe.
Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. The 75-year-old Rushdie was flown to a hospital and was undergoing surgery later Friday. An Associated Press reporter witnessed the attacker confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and punch or stab him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was arrested. Police identified the attacker as 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey. His lawyer declined to comment.
The family of a slain Texas soldier has filed a lawsuit seeking $35 million in damages from the U.S. government. Vanessa Guillen, 20, was sexually harassed and killed at U.S. Army base Fort Hood. Her family is seeking damages for sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and wrongful death. Military officials found Guillen was sexually harassed and leaders failed to take appropriate action. The lawsuit follows a Thursday's decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a law baring troops from seeking damages over injuries during service did not apply to a sexual assault lawsuit.
Dozens of firefighters are battling a large wildfire in a rural area of Hawaii's Big Island. No homes are threatened. Gusts and arid conditions are making it difficult to contain the blaze. The fire started in the western reaches of the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area, which is above the town of Waikoloa and in between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea volcanoes. The fire has burned more than 39 square miles as of Friday. Strong winds have been recorded across the area, some in excess of 30 mph.
Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The papers released Friday indicate the seized records include some that were marked top secret and also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets and those that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” harm to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about what information the documents might contain. Trump backed the warrant’s “immediate” release, but contended the government could have had them any time by asking.
A former Kentucky police detective intends to plead guilty to a civil rights charge stemming from the botched drug raid that led to Breonna Taylor's fatal shooting in 2020. Media outlets report that former Louisville Detective Kelly Goodlett is set to appear before a federal judge to enter her plea on Aug. 22. Goodlett's attorney didn't immediately return calls and emails seeking comment Friday. Taylor's death helped spark nationwide racial justice protests in 2020. The Courier Journal reports Goodlett will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to violate Taylor’s civil rights for helping falsify an affidavit for the police search of her apartment.
A 27-year-old man died in an officer-involved shooting incident in Eutawville late Thursday night, according to the S.C. Law Enforcement Division.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will travel to Orangeburg with U.S. Majority Whip James E. Clyburn to meet with historically black college and university leaders from across the state.
A 27-year-old man died in an officer-involved shooting incident in Eutawville late Thursday night, according to the S.C. Law Enforcement Division.
The City of Orangeburg will be one of the hosts for the 2024 Dixie Youth Baseball World Series.
These are recent reports of missing children made to local law enforcement. If you think you have seen a missing child, contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
The City of Orangeburg will be one of the hosts for the 2024 Dixie Youth Baseball World Series.
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The South Carolina Democratic Party is suing to keep Labor Party candidates for governor and U.S. House off this year’s general election ballot. Democrats say the third party missed a deadline for a nominating convention by two months. The Labor Party had an inter-party dispute over whether it was going to run candidates at all. The state Election Commission ruled earlier this month that a letter certifying the candidates was enough to overcome protests by a co-chairman that there would be no nominees. Labor Party co-chairman Willie Legette told The Post and Courier that Labor Party leaders voted 4-2 in March not to run any candidates in 2022 because they might take votes from Democrats.
A judge has revoked house arrest for the man who authorities say agreed to kill disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh so he could get a life insurance settlement for Murdaugh’s son but only grazed his head. Thursday's decision by a circuit judge requires Curtis “Eddie” Smith to await trial in jail on a second set of charges linked to Murdaugh. Both men are charged with running a drug and $2.4 million money laundering ring. Smith was taken to the Richland County jail — the same place where Murdaugh is awaiting trail without bail on two murder charges in the 2021 shooting deaths of his wife and son.
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An 80-year-old Orangeburg business owner was killed at his home on Aug. 1, according to the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators are searching for a man who may have information on what has been determined to be a homicide, according to Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell.
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COLUMBIA — For the past three decades, South Carolina lawmakers have chipped away at abortion access, requiring ultrasounds, parental consent and 24-hour waiting periods, and banning the procedure early in the pregnancy: first after 20 weeks, then after six.
Former Orangeburg County Councilman Willie B. Owens Sr. died on Friday. He was 83.
BOWMAN— Bowman resumed town council meetings in August after their break in July with a request from Buddy Curtain, who is inquiring about purchasing the old Bowman School in town to locate his business.
Last month, the State’s FY22-23 Budget included $10 million in lottery revenue intended to help address a very real impediment to South Carolina’s critical nursing shortage – the nursing faculty and instructor pipeline.