Here is the latest South Carolina news from The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s Emergency Management Division’s director is done after two years on the job. George McKinney says he is leaving in mid-March and chief of staff Kim Stenson is stepping in as interim director. McKinney led operations through Hurricane Irene in September 2011 and the response to the tornado in York county in November 2012.
WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted and later cleared in the 2004 killing of an Oconee County cab driver is suing the authorities who arrested him. Lloyd Andrew Lash says in a lawsuit filed this week that his arrest and prosecution cost him lost earnings and degraded his name.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A political watchdog group says the South Carolina House Speaker should step down while an ethics complaint against him is investigated. The board of the state chapter of Common Cause says Bobby Harrell should not remain speaker while authorities examine complaints that he reimbursed himself $280,000 from his campaign account.
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — An environmental group has filed a complaint with a federal agency about pollution at a Santee Cooper plant in Conway. The Southern Environmental Law Center says the state-owned utility is violating the Clean Water Act by allowing pollution at its Grainger electric plant to seep into the Waccamaw River.
