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2 weeks ago | 
live5news.com | Mary Green |Patrick Phillips |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has given the state a deadline to respond to an attempt to block pay raises approved in the new budget for state lawmakers. Sen. Wes Climer, R-York and retired educator Carol Herring filed the lawsuit last Friday, attorney and former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said. That same day, the South Carolina Supreme Court set a deadline for the state to respond by next Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
live5news.com | Mary Green |Patrick Phillips |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A South Carolina senator who filed a legal challenge to a pay raise for state lawmakers will explain the reasons for the challenge Monday afternoon. Sen. Wes Climer, R-York, attorney and former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian and Carol Herring plan to discuss the case at noon. The General Assembly passed the state’s budget, which included what is essentially an $18,000-a-year raise for all of its members.
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4 weeks ago | 
live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by firing squad. Stephen Stanko, who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago, is set to die on June 13. Stanko had a choice among firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair.
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1 month ago | 
live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant against Stephen Stanko for the Horry County shooting death of a friend. Stanko is also on death row for killing a woman he was living with in Georgetown County and raping her teenage daughter. Stanko, 57, is being executed for killing his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner.
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1 month ago | 
live5news.com | Jeffrey Collins |Patrick Phillips
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to quickly stop his heart, struck him lower than expected, according to a pathologist hired by his attorneys.
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2 months ago | 
live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Mary Green |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - South Carolina’s Republican-dominated Senate will begin considering whether to remove the state’s treasurer from office in the wake of a $1.8 billion accounting error. Curtis Loftis, who is serving his fourth term as treasurer, faces a hearing on Monday before members of the state Senate. The hearing will start at noon and likely last several hours, with two senators, Sen. Larry Grooms, R – Berkeley, and Sen.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
live5news.com | Jeffrey Collins |Mary Green
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - A budget compromise reached by a small group of lawmakers Friday means South Carolina will accelerate a planned income tax cut, raise the salaries of all teachers and state employees and send more money to adult and juvenile prisons. A conference committee agreed to the more than $13 billion spending plan for next budget year, sending it on to the House and Senate to approve at a special session Wednesday.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Steven Ardary |Jeffrey Collins
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - Voters who did not take advantage of the state’s two-week early voting period can cast their ballots in the South Carolina primaries Tuesday. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. across the state. Click here to find your polling location and see your sample ballot. Some voters will select candidates for Congressional races as well as local races that include state lawmakers and sheriff’s races.
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May 13, 2024 | 
live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Mary Green |Jeffrey Collins
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster plans to assess state lawmakers’ accomplishments during the legislative session Monday afternoon. McMaster called a news conference for 2 p.m. Monday to discuss the end of the session. For some, this year’s session might be remembered for what didn’t happen. South Carolina remains one of just two states along with Wyoming to not have a hate crimes bill.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
wtoc.com | Jeffrey Collins |Patrick Phillips
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh said an FBI agent conducting a polygraph test the agency said the convicted killer flunked asked odd questions and confided he had just examined the notorious Dutch killer of an Alabama teen, throwing the results off. The name-check of Joran van der Sloot in court papers Thursday is just the latest strange twist in the case of Murdaugh, the disbarred lawyer who is serving a life sentence for murder in the deaths of his wife and son.
