Courtesy:11th Circuit Solicitors Office EDGEFIELD, S.C. (AP) – A 30-year prison sentence has been given to a Florida woman who killed her 6-month-old son in South Carolina because she was angry when the child’s father wouldn’t answer her texts or phone calls. Twenty-seven-year-old Vernita Lashon Jones pleaded guilty Wednesday to homicide by child abuse and received the minimum sentence. Jones…
This weekend’s game between No. 12 North Carolina and Charlotte has been canceled after the 49ers announced contact tracing had depleted their offensive line with several players placed into quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball season will begin Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina Senate has passed changes to the state budget that would provide a small raise to most teachers and a hazard pay bonus for some lower-paid state workers. Now attention turns to the House, where leaders may prefer not to change the budget at all with worries that COVID-19 could continue to hobble the…
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina coroner says a 6-year-old boy has died after a struggle in the water at Folly Beach. The Charleston County Coroner’s Office says Ian Hernandez, of Ladson, was pronounced dead Monday at the Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. The Post and Courier reports an autopsy has been scheduled to confirm a cause of death….
Most of LSU’s football players have contracted and recovered from COVID-19, coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday, leaving the coaching staff hopeful those players will remain eligible to play the bulk of the season before they have to be tested again.
As strong winds from Hurricane Sally continue to batter the Gulf Coast, Stacy Stewart, a senior specialist…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed a bill to allow all voters in the fall to cast absentee ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The House started a two-week special session Tuesday by debating a bill already passed by the Senate earlier this month to expand voting access. The legislature gaveled in following calls…
(ABC Columbia/FILE) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Six months after shutting down the state’s court system in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, South Carolina’s top jurist now says courts may resume in-person operations with considerations for trying to contain COVID-19. Supreme Court Chief Justice Don Beatty wrote in an order Monday that courts may return to…
Image: Raul and Wilmer Paz Perez now in custody. Elder Paz Perez (far right) remains on the run. (photo via WBRZ) (ABC News/WBRZ) –KENNER, La. — Three brothers have been accused of raping a 10-year-old girl after forcing their way into a bathroom where she was hiding, Louisiana authorities said. One of them remains a fugitive. Brothers Raul and Wilmer…
