Author: Associated Press

Warrant shows assistant director unknowingly handed Alec Baldwin loaded gun

The actor fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of a movie in Santa Fe, Mexico

  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer. That’s according to court records that were released Friday. A search warrant filed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, court said the assistant director did not know…

Ex-Bamberg County council member sentenced to federal prison for lying about sex charges

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A former South Carolina county councilman has been given the maximum sentence for lying about an indictment on child sex charges when he tried to buy a gun. News outlets report that federal district Judge Mary Geiger Lewis told Kerry Trent Kinard on Wednesday that if she could have given him more than 18 months, she…

State Sen. Hugh Leatherman under hospice care

(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) Columbia, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker is currently receiving hospice care after the discovery of what colleagues describe as an inoperable cancer. A GOP senator told The Associated Press on Thursday that Hugh Leatherman’s staff notified a handful of lawmakers the 90-year-old Florence Republican was recently hospitalized after experiencing severe abdominal pain. Leatherman…