The son of a South Carolina criminal defense lawyer shot his father to death with the attorney’s own 9 millimeter handgun, witnesses said at a Friday court hearing.
A well-known lawyer in York County, South Carolina, has allegedly been killed by his son. This is the third time in five years that lawyers in York County have been…
Saying that he was required to do so by a legal cap on damages against a government agency, a South Carolina judge has reduced a $1.6 million jury verdict for…
A South Carolina judge has vacated the murder conviction of a 14-year-old black youth who was executed in 1944 after being found guilty by an all-white jury in a one-day…
Security guards in South Carolina have less training than manicurists and animal control officers, yet they have about the same authority as police on private property.
After a U.S. Supreme Court refusal this week to hear appeals from several federal appellate-court rulings that approved same-sex marriage, some observers expected that other states in the same…
The former general counsel for South Carolina State University has been sentenced to six months of probation for failing to report a kickback scheme in which he donated his take…
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