WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Thursday to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at federal veterans’ cemeteries. The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves on the two days a year that flag displays are permitted….
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A company offering prescriptions for contacts and glasses based on online eye exams no longer offers the service to South Carolinians. Opternative CEO and founder Aaron Dallek said his company stopped providing prescriptions in the state Thursday after the Legislature overrode Gov. Nikki Haley’s veto. The House’s 98-1 vote immediately made such prescriptions illegal. The Senate…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would shorten South Carolina’s legislative session by three weeks most years is on its way to the House floor. The Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday which would end the General Assembly’s yearly sessions on the second Thursday in May. The session currently runs until the first Thursday in June. The bill would save…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Decades after a Forest Acres man invents one of the world’s most popular flight simulation programs, Austin Meyer continues to push the boundaries in aviation. “It’s just so easy to sit at the computer and answer email and code,” Meyer said. “I don’t really feel like I have to do something different to relax, because what…
DENVER, N.C. (AP) _ The wife of a North Carolina man bitten by a poisonous snake at a home improvement store says her husband was shopping for flowers to surprise her when he was stricken. The woman, who asked that her last name not be used, told WSOC-TV (http://on.wsoctv.com/1suPaV5) her husband is in a lot of pain. She says she’s…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) — Walter Scott’s family has called for body cameras on all law enforcement, after a camera captured the 50 year old’s fatal shooting by a North Charleston police officer. Scott’s brother Anthony says,”I think it’s very imperative that across America body cameras are implemented for police officers.” That call was answered by the South Carolina General Assembly…
Kenneth Ancrum NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — More murder charges are coming for Kenneth Ancrum, the man accused of killing a woman pregnant with twins, the sheriff’s office announced during a press conference in which the coroner said the babies would have been able to survive outside the womb. Coroner Rae Wooten said the pregnant woman, 29-year-old Alexis Mungin, died…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Complaints against South Carolina’s legislators would be independently investigated under an ethics reform bill that could reach the finish line this session after four years of debate. If the Senate accepts changes that the House approved Thursday, the legislation will go to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk. Changes made by the House include how State Ethics commissioners…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The commission that checks the qualification of lawyers to be judges in South Carolina has received allegations that a candidate broke the rules. Judicial Merit Selection Commission Chairman Sen. Larry Martin said Thursday he could not name the candidate or provide details because the commission has already sent the candidates to a Wednesday vote by the…
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaks during a rally at the Indiana state Capitol in Indianapolis, April 29, 2016. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is feeling the burn on social media after the hashtag #BernieLostMe started trending Wednesday in response to a group of his supporters who became violent at a Nevada political…
