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South CarolinaGREENVILLETV cameras OK'd for SC bikini strangler sentencing
A judge on Wednesday decided to allow TV cameras to record the sentencing of a convicted sex offender for raping a college student from Missouri and strangling her with her bikini top.But Circuit Judge Edward Miller also banned all live audio or video from being broadcast from Jerry Buck Inman's Sept. 8 sentencing hearing. Inman faces life in prison or the death penalty.
CHARLESTONPublic defender to take ex-prof's appeal in scam
The federal public defender for South Carolina will handle the court appeal of Al Parish, the former college professor convicted of bilking hundreds of investors out of $66 million.Parish, an economist who once taught at Charleston Southern, filed a financial affidavit last week seeking help in appealing his federal 24-year prison sentence.
FORT JACKSONArmy opens prep school for dropouts to fill ranks
Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer. Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make it through school while flipping burgers until 1 a.m.But the U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doesn't see them as dropouts. They are recruits who only need a GED before they're ready to begin basic training.
CHARLESTONLegal setback for man who claims he found Hunley
An underwater archaeologist who claims he found the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley said Monday he will keep fighting for official credit for the discovery, despite a lawsuit over the matter being dismissed.Lee Spence claimed he found the Hunley in 1970 when a fishing net snagged on the submarine's wreckage and says he has the documents to prove it. But the state gave shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler credit, saying he located the sub off Sullivans Island near Charleston in 1995.
PIEDMONTWoman wanted in Michigan arrested in SC
U.S. Marshals have arrested a woman they say escaped from a Michigan prison 35 years ago.The Marshals Service says 59-year-old Barbara Corley was arrested Friday at a home in Piedmont. She was being held at Anderson County Detention Center.
FLORENCESC sex offender gets 25 years for gun charge
A man acquitted last year of charges he raped two girls in an underground dungeon has been sentenced to 25 years on a federal gun charge.A U.S. District Court judge in South Carolina said Kenneth Glenn Hinson's criminal history led to the lengthy sentence on a charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon.
CHARLESTONWeekend SC festival celebrates Gullah culture
Artists from four states will visit Charleston for the Gullah-Geechee Nation International Music and Movement Festival.The festival opens Friday featuring visual arts, music and dances of slave descendants who live on the sea islands of the Southeast coast.
COLUMBIAPoll: Voters don't care where VP pick is from
A new poll suggests that Southern voters don't care where a presidential candidate's running mate lives.A Winthrop University/ETV poll released today shows John McCain with a substantial lead among Southern voters. But Winthrop political scientist and poll author Scott Huffmon says regional ticket balancing no longer seems to be necessary.
COLUMBIA'3 Hebrew Boys' face new charges in alleged scam
Three South Carolina men accused of bilking investors out of millions of dollars are facing nearly two dozen new federal charges, according to a federal grand jury indictment released Thursday.Joseph Brunson, Tony Pough and Timothy McQueen each were indicted on 12 counts of money laundering and 10 counts of transporting checks obtained by fraud.
LEXINGTONSC father accused of killing teenager at party
A South Carolina man shot an unarmed teenager to death after a scuffle at a weekend party thrown by his children, then shot two teens involved in a retaliatory shooting at his home, authorities said Tuesday.Francis Marion Reeves III, 62, is charged with murder in the Friday shooting death of 17-year-old Deshaun Rashad Clark and was released on a $125,000 bond after a Tuesday court hearing.
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