Author: Associated Press

Prosecutor appeals overturning of SC’s forfeiture laws

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A prosecutor is appealing to the South Carolina Supreme Court a lower court’s ruling that the state’s forfeiture laws are not legal. Last year, Circuit Judge Steven John ruled the state and U.S. constitutions were violated by a law allowing police departments to confiscate cash, cars, houses and other items that came from proceeds of illegal…

State Election Officials meeting in Washington for training session on security

WASHINGTON (AP) – State election officials from around the country are gathering in Washington for training sessions and meetings with presidential nominating contests set to begin next week. The Department of Homeland Security held a training exercise for election officials from 44 states and representatives from more than a dozen voting technology companies. It’s a much different set of meetings…

South Carolina’s Confederate Relic Room ponders name change

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s military museum is considering a name change that better covers all of its artifacts. The official name of the museum now is the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. But museum leaders say they cover the entire 250 years of artifacts and not just the four years of the Confederacy. Any change…

UC Berkeley Law School strips itself of racist namesake

The University of California, Berkeley's prestigious law school has stripped itself of a 19th century namesake who espoused racist views that led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

The law school at the University of California, Berkeley has stripped itself of a 19th century namesake who espoused racist views that led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.