Governor McMaster signs bill establishing a statewide protocol for response to child abuse cases
Governor Henry McMaster put pen to paper this afternoon to tackle child abuse in the Palmetto State.
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Lawyer whose son and wife killed has law license suspended
By Jeffrey Collins
The South Carolina Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law license of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh on Wednesday, two days after his law firm said he took money from the business. Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son, shot multiple times, at the family’s Colleton County home on June 7. On Saturday, he told police someone shot at him as he changed a tire on the side of a rural road. A family attorney has suggested someone cut the tire before Murdaugh left. State police haven’t commented on the shooting.
RCSD Deputy Chief to be named Chief of Police in the City of Cayce
According to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Chief Chris Cowan has been selected as the next Police Chief in the City of Cayce.
Dylann Roof seeks rehearing on church shooting conviction
By Meg Kinnard
Dylann Roof has filed the next step in his federal appeal, challenging a court’s confirmation of his conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. Last month, a three-judge panel of the court unanimously upheld Roof’s conviction and sentence, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did.
FBI UPDATE: NC murder suspect in custody
FBI agents in Charlotte says a man wanted for two murders may be traveling through South Carolina or surrounding states.
DHEC: 3,466 new cases of COVID-19, 55 additional deaths in SC
DHEC reports 3,466 new cases of COVID-19 and 55 additional deaths in South Carolina.
SCDEW: Decrease in initial unemployment insurance claims last week
The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce says there was a decrease in initial unemployment insurance claims filed last week.
South Carolina abortion law challenge backed by 20 states
By Meg Kinnard
Twenty Democratic attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care.
AP source: Biden requiring federal workers to get COVID shot
President Joe Biden on Thursday is toughening COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and contractors as he aims to boost vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing the nation’s economic recovery.
Pickup truck fatally hits pedestrian on Oakland Avenue
Troopers say a pedestrian was fatally hit by a truck on Oakland Avenue in Richland.
