Latest South Carolina Headlines

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South Carolina Busts Contractors for Tax Evasion, False Insurance Certificates

Oct 27 2021 // For three years, undercover investigators watched as construction company owners in South Carolina met with a check-cashing company in parking lots, then walk away with bags of cash and fake insurance certificates, showing...

Canal Expands to Larger HQ in South Carolina

Oct 22 2021 // After adding 85 employees in the last three years, trucking insurer Canal Insurance will move to a new headquarters in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The company, which specializes in commercial trucking and other...

Kansas’ Fee Succeeds South Carolina’s Jensen as Chair of National Big ‘I’ Agents

Oct 6 2021 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) installed Kansas’ Bob Fee, president of Fee Insurance Group Inc. in Hutchinson, as 2021-22 Big “I” chair at the recent...

Federal Judge Overturns South Carolina School Mask Ban; Dept. of Education to Comply

Sep 30 2021 // A federal judge Tuesday suspended South Carolina from enforcing a rule that banned school districts from requiring masks for students.Parents of disabled children, helped by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the...

Relation Acquires South Carolina-based Furman Insurance

Sep 29 2021 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. (“Relation”) announced it acquired the assets of South Carolina-based The Furman Co. Insurance Agency (“Furman Insurance”). Terms of the transaction were not...

Relation Acquires South Carolina-Based Perry

Sep 23 2021 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired the assets of South Carolina-based Perry Insurance Group, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Perry provides personal and commercial lines insurance throughout...

Demolition Set for South Carolina Housing Complex Where Monoxide Poisoning Killed Two

Sep 20 2021 // Heavy equipment may soon begin tearing down an 80-year-old South Carolina public housing complex where two men died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly maintained heater.Scientists are conducting environmental...

South Carolina Lawyer Who Arranged Own Death Turns Himself in on Insurance Fraud

Sep 17 2021 // A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago plans to turn himself in to face charges in a plot to arrange his own death that ended with the shooter only grazing him in the...

South Carolina Court Declines to Revisit Case Over Plan to Build Homes on Sand Spit

Sep 3 2021 // South Carolina’s highest court said Wednesday that it won’t revisit a dispute between developers and environmentalists over a plan to build homes on a sand spit south of Charleston.The state Supreme Court is...

Executive Charged in Aftermath of Failed South Carolina Nuclear Project

Sep 2 2021 // A business executive charged in the aftermath of a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday.Jeffrey A. Benjamin was a former senior vice...

South Carolina Supreme Court to Hear Pair of Mask Mandate Lawsuits

Aug 31 2021 // South Carolina’s highest court will hear two challenges to the state’s refusal to let school districts require masks for students and teachers this week.The state Supreme Court has set aside two hours to hear...

Fourth Person Charged over Failed South Carolina Nuclear Plant Project

Aug 20 2021 // A fourth business executive faces criminal charges stemming from a federal investigation into a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, authorities announced Wednesday.Jeffrey A....

South Carolina Supreme Court Allows University to Institute Mask Mandate

Aug 19 2021 // The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a mask mandate instituted by the University of South Carolina last month does not violate a state budget proviso banning discriminatory face covering requirements.University...

NFL Owner Kraft Sued Over South Carolina Paper Mill’s Harmful Pollution

Aug 17 2021 // A South Carolina paper mill, whose foul smell has triggered more than 30,000 complaints, has become one of the dirtiest polluters in the United States since being acquired by an investment group led by Robert Kraft, the...

South Carolina Prepares for Open Carrying of Pistols

Aug 16 2021 // Anyone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon in South Carolina will no longer have to keep their weapon hidden under clothing starting Sunday.Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Friday for a new state law...

Catholic Priest in South Carolina Placed on Leave After Lawsuit Over Sexual Relationship

Aug 10 2021 // A Catholic priest in South Carolina has been placed on leave after he was sued by a woman who said the pastor manipulated her into a sexual relationship.Father Wilbroad Mwape was removed at least temporarily as the pastor...

South Carolina Deputies Cleared in Fatal Shooting Case

Aug 10 2021 // An internal investigation found that two South Carolina sheriff’s deputies who fired their guns during an encounter that left a man dead were justified in using deadly force.Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis...

Duke Energy Builds Flood Walls Around South Carolina Electric Substation

Jul 27 2021 // A utility is building walls around an electric substation to prevent them from being overrun by floodwaters in the first of its kind project in South Carolina.Duke Energy is spending $1.6 million on the Nichols project to...

Judge OKs Distribution For $192M South Carolina Failed Nuclear Project Settlement

Jul 21 2021 // Investors who lost fortunes in the failure of a multi billion-dollar nuclear reactor construction deal in South Carolina will soon begin to see their portions of a $192 million settlement, under a recently approved...

South Carolina Bill Stopping COVID Suits Against Businesses Signed

Jul 19 2021 // Gov. Henry McMaster again said South Carolina is recovering better from the COVID-19 pandemic than just about any other state as he held a ceremonial signing of a bill preventing people from suing companies over the...