(AP) WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. Roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to Census Bureau data from early August….
Source: FCSO Florence Co., S.C. (AP)–A former police officer in South Carolina has been ordered to spend six months in prison for hitting a man under arrest and in handcuffs with his flashlight. Investigators say ex-Florence County deputy Brian Proffitt also left information about the beating out of his initial report in February 2019 and again in a follow up…
Urban Meyer assumed Trevor Lawrence would be his starting quarterback long before he even took the Jacksonville job.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) –A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed Dylann Roof’s conviction and sentence in the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME…
(AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit over a South Carolina law that bans school districts from imposing mask mandates. The lawsuit argues the ban effectively excludes vulnerable students from public schools and disproportionately impacts students with underlying health conditions or disabilities, who are at risk of becoming seriously ill if they contract COVID-19. South…
The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten and Pac-12 announced Tuesday that the three powerful leagues will form an alliance to work together on items such as football scheduling and college sports governance.
ACLU filed a federal lawsuit over a South Carolina law that bans school districts from requiring face masks.
Former Gamecock pitcher Jordan Montgomery (5-5) worked around four walks in his five-inning stint, limiting the Braves to two hits.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The speedy Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has revived alarms about a resurgent al-Qaida and new terrorism threats against the U.S. The group’s danger to the United States had been eclipsed in the past two decades by other threats, but experts are concerned that al-Qaida could again be given unfettered safe harbor by the Taliban. The renewed attention…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say an inmate who had been on South Carolina’s death row for more than 37 years has died from a stroke. Donald Allen Jones (SCDC) Sixty-year-old Donald Allen Jones was convicted of killing a dairy owner in Lancaster he briefly worked for and raping his wife during a robbery in 1983. Jones was the second-longest…
