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Tuesday, March 19, 2013  Authorities say an Elgin Town Councilman has been arrested again. This time, he is accused of assaulting his wife.

Friday, March 08, 2013  Authorities have captured an inmate they say walked away from a pre-release center in Charleston.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013  A man who prompted a nationwide manhunt after a pair of South Carolina killings in 2005 has lost the appeal of the second of two death sentences.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013  A convicted felon who shot and killed two men he said were trying to rob his Spartanburg apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal weapons charge.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  South Carolina's highest court has overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of strangling an Anderson woman in 2006.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013  South Carolina's highest court has ruled that police did not violate the constitutional rights of a man they stopped on suspicion of dealing drugs.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012  South Carolina's high court says that organized poker games are illegal, even when they happen in a private home.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012  Attorneys for a man serving a life sentence for raping and killing his 12-year-old daughter say the conviction should be tossed because a trial judge didn't let jurors hear statements from another man.

Tuesday, November 06, 2012  Freshman South Carolina congressman Jeff Duncan has easily won a second term in the 3rd District in the northwestern corner of the state.

Friday, October 19, 2012  Lawyers for the former Penn State assistant football coach filed a 31-page document Thursday that attacked rulings by the judge, the closing argument by the prosecution and the speed by which he went from arrest to trial.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012  A suspect in the disappearance of a missing Columbia teen has been indicted on a federal weapons charge, according to United States Attorney Bill Nettles.

Thursday, July 12, 2012  A South Carolina inmate who walked away from a crew doing grounds maintenance in a remote part of Fort Jackson has been recaptured.

Monday, July 02, 2012  An Upstate judge has sentenced a drunk driver to read the Old Testament Book of Job after she seriously injured two people in a car accident.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012  An illegal immigrant from South Carolina that the government wants to deport will get a federal court hearing in his case.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012  The father of a 2-month-old South Carolina infant who was dismembered and killed by the family dog has been charged with illegal neglect of a child.