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Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina's move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. The court agreed to take up the state's appeal of a lower-court...
Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned Republican, has died. He was 82. Spratt died Saturday night at...
Federal officials say South Carolina mental illness group homes leave little hope of independence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people with serious mental illnesses are taken out of group homes and helped to get back into the community where they can work and lead independent lives. The...
AP Race Call: Republican Sheri Biggs wins election to U.S. House in South Carolina's 3rd District
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sheri Biggs won election to a U.S. House seat representing South Carolina on Tuesday, keeping an open seat for the GOP. Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer, won the state’s lone open seat in the 3rd Congressional District. She...
South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and members...
Justices refuse to stop execution of South Carolina inmate who says the jury was racially biased
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a Black inmate whose lawyers say he is the only person on the death's death row convicted by a jury with no African American members. There were no...
Jurors, judge and former prison director all ask for mercy for condemned South Carolina inmate
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has more than 20 people asking the governor to spare his life in a clemency petition filed Wednesday, just two days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1999 killing of a store clerk. There are...
Judge rules only the governor can grant clemency to a South Carolina death row inmate
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected the request of a South Carolina man scheduled for execution next week to remove the governor's power to grant clemency and allow someone else to consider his case. Richard Moore’s lawyers argued that Gov. Henry McMaster could not...
Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned South Carolina inmate chose Friday to be executed by lethal injection, instead of by firing squad or electrocution, for killing a store clerk in 1999. State prison officials had told Richard Moore this month he could choose the method for his Nov....
The son of a South Carolina inmate urges the governor to save his father from execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Richard Moore never meant to kill anyone the night he robbed a South Carolina convenience store and the Black man was convicted by a jury with no African Americans, his son and lawyers say as they fight to save the inmate from execution next month. Moore went...
