Author: Associated Press

SC Senate called back to ‘protect the voter and the vote’

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina’s Senate is coming back into session in two weeks to mull over possible election law updates necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak. Senate President Harvey Peeler said Monday that state senators would return Sept. 2 to “make plans to protect the voter and the vote” given that the pandemic continues in the run up to…

Congressman Clyburn to address DNC

  Washington D.C. (AP)– South Carolina congressman James Clyburn is now the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, the House Democratic Whip, and one of the few 1960s civil rights movement leaders still in elective office today. He’ll bring that connection to the past to the Democratic National Convention on Monday. Clyburn will address a country in a new phase of…

SC Attorney General asks court to rule on monument protection law

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has asked the state’s Supreme Court to determine whether the state’s monument protection law is constitutional. Wilson’s letter Thursday calls on the court to rule on a lawsuit filed by the widow of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, who is suing to overturn the Heritage Act. The law was passed in…

One person killed after “ambush” of deputies in small SC town

ANDERSON, SC (AP) – A shooting in a small South Carolina city involving sheriff’s deputies has left a man dead and a woman injured. Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride says the deputies were caught in an “ambush situation” Tuesday night when fired upon from a hill next to a Lowe’s parking lot in Anderson. The deputies returned fire and struck…