CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man who faced a $525 fine for refilling an 89-cent drink at a Veterans Affairs hospital apparently will get off with a warning. When Christopher Lewis of North Charleston, S.C., refilled his drink without paying Wednesday, a federal police officer gave him a ticket. Lewis is a construction worker and […]
This is horrific…jut absolutely heart breaking. According to DDW, a South Carolina woman will be spending the next twenty years thinking about her mistakes in…
Rick Clark, the sheriff of Pickens County, South Carolina, is refusing to lower the flag to half-staff to honor the life of Nelson Mandela, publicly…
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP)— South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley is asking voters in the Democratic stronghold of Columbia to give the mayor more power. Voters in the state’s capital city will decide in a special election today whether to move to a strong mayor form of government, transferring most of the authority held by […]
GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Police found the bodies of six people ranging in age from 9 to the early 50s when they responded to a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself. SWAT team members who entered the house late Tuesday found the remains of four adults and two […]
We had to check and make sure this was still the year 2013 when we read this! A family in South Carolina went to a…
By now, you’ve probably heard that my great-uncles, Meeks and Thomas Griffin, received posthumous pardons the day before yesterday. My family and I experienced the sweet smell of victory when an injustice served almost 100 years ago was reversed. Nothing could bring my uncles back, but we did as much as we could. And sometimes […]
Today, my brother and my two sons will appear before a parole board in Columbia, South Carolina, not because we’re in any kind of trouble with the law, but to try to right a wrong done to my great-uncles almost 100 years ago. So, last night, I tried to put myself in the shoes of […]
A few weeks ago, when South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson yelled out “You lie!” during President Obama’s health care speech, J. Anthony Brown, TJMS sidekick and native South Carolinian, announced that he was no longer from that state – he was done. For as long as he could remember, he’d lived with blatant racism, segregation, […]
