Ted Clifford
Crime and Courts Reporter at The State
Statewide accountability reporter @thestate in Columbia, SC | Formerly @columbiajourn and @Poynter Fellow | [email protected]
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thestate.com | Ted Clifford
Patrick Spigner has been working the Turn 90 program for about a month after being incarcerated for 12 years and nine months. He says the program is invaluable integrate back into society. Turn 90 helps with the reentry process by helping formerly incarcerated men with life skills. Tracy Glantz [email protected] The United States puts more people in prison than any country. There are 1.8 million people in state and federal prisons around the country.
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firerescue1.com | Ted Clifford
By Ted CliffordThe StateCOLUMBIA, S.C. — James Muller was still in high school when he knew that he wanted to be a firefighter. By 25, he was married, the father to a young son and serving with the Irmo Fire District. On May 26, 2023, he was killed while assisting the Columbia-Richland Fire Department in battling an apartment fire at the Tropical Ridge Apartments near the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina.
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firehouse.com | Ted Clifford
By 25, he was married, the father to a young son and serving with the Irmo Fire District. On May 26, 2023, he was killed while assisting the Columbia-Richland Fire Department in battling an apartment fire at the Tropical Ridge Apartments near the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. While fighting the fire at its source inside of a second floor kitchen, Muller and three other Irmo firefighters were buried by debris when the two floors above collapsed on top of them.
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1 month ago |
thestate.com | Ted Clifford
A longtime Lexington County politician and lawyer, who was once accused of declaring “I am your king. I am your God” by a former employee who sued him for sexual harassment, has been charged with fraudulenty obtaining COVID relief funds from South Carolina. On Friday, Billy R. Oswald, 77, was charged with three counts of fraud related to the theft of funds from the state’s Disaster Unemployment Assistance fund in March 2020, according to warrants.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Ted Clifford
A longtime Lexington County politician and lawyer, who was once accused of declaring “I am your king. I am your God” by a former employee who sued him for sexual harassment, has been charged with fraudulenty obtaining COVID relief funds from South Carolina. On Friday, Billy R. Oswald, 77, was charged with three counts of fraud related to the theft of funds from the state’s Disaster Unemployment Assistance fund in March 2020, according to warrants.
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A second person on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi's team announced his choice today, two weeks before his execution scheduled for April 11. https://t.co/ZP4c53K4MG
The only thing I hated more than this statue was the fact that it was taken from us. Awesome work by @BristowatHome, @m0rgan_hughes and @JAABPhoto https://t.co/ZHwh0OALhI
SC just scheduled its 3rd execution of the year. Meanwhile, an autopsy report confirms that 2 people who received the lethal injection died w lungs full of fluid. It raises concerns that the pentobarbital used during executions causes extreme suffering. https://t.co/VGUdngxXmP