Author: Associated Press

State House: Hearing on Medical Marijuana

By CHRISTINA L. MYERS= COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina lawmakers are hearing from both supporters and opponents of the medicinal use of marijuana. The Senate Medical Affairs planned two hearings Thursday to fit in all the speakers on the issue. The bill, called the Compassionate Care Act, would allow patients with terminal, debilitating medical conditions to purchase up to…

SLED: Update Officer, Suspect hurt in Hospital Shooting in Laurens

CLINTON, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Department says a gunman and a health systems police officer have been wounded by gunfire inside a hospital. News outlets report it happened at about 2 a.m. Thursday at Laurens County Memorial Hospital in Clinton. SLED spokesman Thom Berry says the suspect was being treated when he shot the officer…

2 South Carolina men charged with killing, burying women

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – Two South Carolina men are charged with murder after sheriff’s deputies found two bodies buried at a Spartanburg County house. Local news outlets report 39-year-old Jonathan Galligan and 41-year-old Christian Daniel Hurlburt were arrested Saturday. Deputies say the bodies they found buried Friday are 27-year-old Christin Renee Bunner of Spartanburg and 40-year-old Melissa Fairlee Rhymer of…

South Carolina university student dies at off-campus event

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina university says a student has died at an off-campus event. Furman University President Elizabeth Davis announced Saturday that Caroline Smith, a sophomore from Atlanta, died Saturday in Hilton Head. The university didn’t state a cause of death or explain the nature of the event. Smith was a history and communication studies major and…