The Public Safety Department says deaths on South Carolina highways are up slightly in the first seven months of 2011. Authorities said Monday that 462 people have died on the state’s roads through July 31. In 2010, troopers reported 447 …
Black farmers are meeting in rural South Carolina to hear how to file claims in a $1.2 billion settlement of a discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The farmers meeting in Bennettsville on Saturday are among about 80,000 …
This week S.C. Governor Nikki Haley signed into law legislation to address the state’s Supreme Court ruling on Crossmann Communities of North Carolina, Inc. v. Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co.(Crossman). Earlier this year, the state Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling …
Nearly $12 million in auto insurance fraud was reported in South Carolina last year, according to the state attorney general’s office. According to the 2010 annual insurance fraud report, 324 auto-related fraud complaints were received by the state attorney general’s …
As cars zigged and zagged through the busy Chestnut Street and St. Matthews Road intersection, the unit sounded off: “Yabba Dabba Doo!” “I got a hit,” the officer said. “Hang on.” Out of hundreds of cars navigating the intersection, Orangeburg …
North Carolina inspectors responsible for checking rides at Carowinds kept records on every problem they discovered during their annual inspections at the amusement park that straddles both Carolinas near Charlotte, N.C. Their counterparts in South Carolina simply marked the rides …
Officials have reported a small earthquake in Kershaw County. The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday the 2.3-magnitude quake struck about 1:15 p.m. a few miles outside Camden. Kershaw County officials say a number of residents reported feeling the ground shake, …
Gov. Nikki Haley has signed into law a bill designed to stop a South Carolina town from using a traffic camera to send speeders a ticket in the mail. The law bars towns from mailing traffic tickets. It requires officers …
South Carolina’s two-tier statutory cap on damages is constitutional, the state Supreme Court has ruled. In the same ruling, however, the court found that two separate governmental entities’ negligent acts, which resulted in severe injuries to the plaintiffs, constituted two …
A South Carolina bill banning cash payments for copper appears one vote away from Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk. The House voted last Thursday to end cash sales for copper, and to require both seller and recycler to obtain permits from …