Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:22 PM EST
The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving is pregnant and mentally ill and should be released from jail because she needs medical care, the woman's attorney argued in court papers filed this week.
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Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:56 AM EST
The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving was arrested in Georgia and accused of prostitution shortly before her son disappeared, according to police records.
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Wed Jan 4, 2012 11:09 AM EST
Police looking for a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving have found a shovel and what appear to be bloody clothes and blankets in his mother's Columbia home and in her car, according to search warrants.
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Tue Jan 3, 2012 12:40 PM EST
After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold.
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Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:12 PM EST
An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:04 PM EST
Two South Carolina legislators say state employees shouldn't have to answer the phone with Gov. Nikki Haley's mandated cheery greeting unless it's truly a great day in South Carolina.
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Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:40 PM EST
The Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina's law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. It was the first voter ID law to be refused by the federal agency in nearly 20 years.
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Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:59 PM EST
A federal judge on Thursday blocked several provisions of South Carolina's tough new immigration law from taking effect New Year's Day, including a requirement for law officers to check the immigration status of people they pull over if officers suspect they are in the country illegally.
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Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:30 PM EST
Comedian Stephen Colbert is offering to pay half a million dollars to help subsidize South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, as state officials struggle to pay for it, but there's doubt whether it would even be legal.
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Wed Dec 7, 2011 3:07 PM EST
Comedian Stephen Colbert tried yet again to get his name on South Carolina's presidential primary ballot — only this time he wanted to sponsor the Republican contest.
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Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:09 PM EST
Seven Occupy Columbia protesters arrested last week for refusing to leave the South Carolina Statehouse grounds have sued Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and state public safety officials, saying their First Amendment rights were trampled.
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Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:57 AM EST
The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands of tires isn't easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tires got there, or when.
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Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:08 PM EDT
The federal government is suing South Carolina to put a stop to the state's tough new immigration law.
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Sun Jul 3, 2011 11:12 AM EDT
As the Republican campaign to replace President Barack Obama heats up in early voting states like South Carolina, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is releasing a book discussing the roots of the tea party crusade and his hopes for the movement in 2012.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:36 AM EDT
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman planned to visit early-voting South Carolina Wednesday to file his paperwork for the state's first-in-the-South Republican primary a day after formally launching his presidential campaign.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:55 AM EDT
In his first trip to early-voting South Carolina since launching his presidential campaign, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman did the governor's bidding and demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama end a lawsuit by a federal labor agency in a dispute over a Boeing plant being built in South Carolina.
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Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:09 PM EDT
The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board told a congressional committee Friday that while an NLRB complaint against Boeing Co. may make South Carolina workers feel vulnerable and anxious, the legal action is aimed at protecting the rights of workers everywhere.
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:07 PM EDT
Former U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was officially enrolled Friday in a pretrial intervention program that will drop a misdemeanor obscenity charge against him if he completes community service and counseling.
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Wed Jun 8, 2011 10:08 AM EDT
Boeing on Tuesday asked a judge in Seattle to dismiss a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board that accuses the plane maker of breaking the law when it built a non-union production line in South Carolina.
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Fri May 27, 2011 1:45 PM EDT
A South Carolina inspector fired after he falsified a report about a children's train ride that crashed, killing a 6-year-old boy, issued only one violation in more than three years of examining amusement park rides, according to an Associated Press review of state records.
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Mon May 16, 2011 12:46 PM EDT
A former South Carolina sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for violating an inmate's civil rights when he broke the man's leg in an attack caught on jailhouse surveillance cameras.
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Mon May 9, 2011 12:18 PM EDT
A high school sophomore in South Carolina shot his mother to death and critically injured his brother after a family argument on Mother's Day, police said Monday.
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Wed May 4, 2011 4:19 PM EDT
Wal-Mart says it is bringing 4,000 new jobs and $400 million in investments to South Carolina over the next five years.
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Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:30 PM EDT
A former high school band teacher in North Carolina was arrested on sex charges after a young woman wrote in an essay in her college newspaper that he got her pregnant — and took her to get an abortion — when she was his student.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:12 PM EDT
The U.S. Justice Department believes a South Carolina jail is violating inmates' free speech rights by barring them from any reading material other than the Bible
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