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Four charged for trying to get drugs inside detention center

Lexington Co., S.C. (WOLO)– Deputies in Lexington Co. say a man and a woman are accused of trying to get drugs and other contraband to her son and another inmate inside the Lexington Detention Center. Deputies say Cassandra Shanklin and Hunter Warren are charged with furnishing or possessing contraband, criminal conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent…

SLED releases 911 call from Murdaugh’s alleged orchestrated suicide attempt

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators released a 911 call made by Alex Murdaugh during his alleged attempted suicide. September 4th Murdaugh called 911 claiming he had pulled over along old Salkehatchie Highway in Hampton County to fix a flat tire when someone pulled over and shot him. Murdaugh was shot in the head but was able…

Ex-Bamberg County council member sentenced to federal prison for lying about sex charges

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A former South Carolina county councilman has been given the maximum sentence for lying about an indictment on child sex charges when he tried to buy a gun. News outlets report that federal district Judge Mary Geiger Lewis told Kerry Trent Kinard on Wednesday that if she could have given him more than 18 months, she…

State Sen. Hugh Leatherman under hospice care

(AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) Columbia, S.C. (AP)–South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker is currently receiving hospice care after the discovery of what colleagues describe as an inoperable cancer. A GOP senator told The Associated Press on Thursday that Hugh Leatherman’s staff notified a handful of lawmakers the 90-year-old Florence Republican was recently hospitalized after experiencing severe abdominal pain. Leatherman…