It’s now being reported that a series of slip-ups at the Berkeley County jail enabled a criminal domestic violence suspect to walk out of the facility last month. According to an internal report obtained by the Charleston Post & Courier, two law officers failed to fully read inmate James Sanders’s file before clearing him for [...]
Headlines from the State Capitol (click here for a summary of Wednesday’s schedule): –The House Ways & Means Committee began drafting next year’s budget Tuesday. Before doing so, Republicans on the committee voted to suspend a law requiring 4.5 percent of the state’s General Fund to go to local governments. House leaders say it does [...]
The House budget-writing committee has approved renewing a tax break for gun buyers. The full committee voted 21-2 on Tuesday to insert into the state budget a sales-tax-free weekend for gun purchases on some of the busiest shopping days of the year. The “Second Amendment Weekend” would be the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. Legislators [...]
Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy for your Wednesday as highs will push into the mid 60s for the Upstate to the low 70s for the Midlands and Lowcountry. A few afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms are possible in the Upstate with a slight risk for severe weather. The main threat would be damaging winds. [...]
–Most of the attention will be focused on the budget talks in the House Ways & Means committee, but there are more than two dozen other meetings occurring on the Statehouse grounds Wednesday. –A candlelight vigil will be held on the Statehouse steps at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday as family and friends of missing lobbyist Tom [...]
Legislators would no longer be exempt from South Carolina’s open records law under a bill that passed a House committee Tuesday. Lawmakers are not legally required to answer a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, although most say they do. “I think that folks are kind of tired of us setting ourselves apart from others,” [...]
As the budget debate begins in Columbia, a South Carolina House committee voted Tuesday to suspend a local government funding formula so it can be more “flexible” in crafting next year’s budget. State law requires 4.5 percent of the state General Fund to go towards counties and towns, but legislators have not reached that mark the past [...]
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