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Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Nov. 22 The Times and Democrat on the new leader of the South Carolina Senate Democrats: When Lexington County Sen. Nikki Setzler arrived in the state Senate in January 1977, times were much different than today. Setzler was elected as a Democrat in a county...
South Carolina officials eye single drug for execution plan
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The state of South Carolina says an inmate scheduled to be executed next week could be put to death with a lethal dose of just one drug if officials cannot get hold of all three drugs the procedure calls for. The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a Dec. 4 execution date for...
Rain sends smaller SC Christmas tree lighting event inside
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A chance of rain is moving the annual lighting of South Carolina's Christmas tree inside the Statehouse and because of COVID-19 the public won't be able to attend in person. The ceremony starts at 5:30 p.m. Sunday and South Carolina Education Television will show it on air and online....
Thanksgiving week opens with COVID-19 testing at SC airport
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As the Thanksgiving week begins, South Carolina's chief medical school is joining with the Charleston airport to give free COVID-19 tests. The testing site will be open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the fourth floor of the daily parking garage...
SC hunters bag fewer gators, maybe due to COVID-19 and cold
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina hunters bagged about 100 fewer alligators this hunting season than last year. The Post and Courier reports that just 243 gators were bagged from September to October. The state Department of Natural Resources said cooler temperatures, rain and COVID-19 could all be...
Longtime S. Carolina senator reflects on election loss
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Glenn Reese may have lost his re-election bid after 30 years in the S.C. Senate, but some say Spartanburg County is losing one of its biggest advocates. “It’s Spartanburg’s loss, and it’s a big loss,” said former State Rep. Brenda Lee Pryce of...
S.C. Death row inmate declines to choose execution method
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man has declined to select how he should be executed, furthering a potential showdown over the state's use of lethal injection. Lindsey Vann, an attorney for inmate Richard Bernard Moore, told The Herald-Journal on Friday that Moore declined to choose between...
McMaster: Get tested for COVID-19 before Thanksgiving
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In his first public briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in more than two months, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Thursday doubled down on his pledge to not impose new restrictions to curb COVID-19. Instead, the governor debuted a new slogan ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday,...
S.C. inmate dies after other prisoners assault him in cell
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An inmate at a South Carolina state prison has died after being assaulted in his cell. Travis Antwan Lee died at a hospital after being assaulted at the maximum security Lee Correctional Institution on Wednesday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced. Lee was...
South Carolina schedules execution but doesn't have drugs
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The state of South Carolina has scheduled what could be its first execution in nearly a decade, but corrections officials say they don't have any lethal injection drugs to carry it out. The State Supreme Court set a Dec. 4 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 55-year-old man...
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