Jeffrey Collins

September 10, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A South Carolina man confessed to killing his five children, ages 1 to 8, then dumping their bodies wrapped in trash bags in a secluded clearing along a rural road in Alabama, authorities said Wednesday.

By Jeffrey Collins

4 minute read

July 21, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A judge has ordered South Carolina's attorney general to turn over documents to a freelance journalist investigating the court fight over the estate of soul singer James Brown.

By Jeffrey Collins

4 minute read

March 20, 2014 | Daily Report Online

An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding jail time in one of the military's most closely watched courts-martial.

By Jeffrey Collins and Michael Biesecker

6 minute read

March 17, 2014 | Daily Report Online

An Army general who admitted to improper relationships with three subordinates appeared to choke up Monday as he told a judge that he'd failed the female captain who had leveled the most serious accusations against him.

By Jeffrey Collins

6 minute read

April 28, 2008 | Daily Report Online

EASLEY, S.C. AP - A teenager who had recently moved back home after breaking up with his live-in girlfriend is accused of gunning down and killing four family members, stunning friends and neighbors.Nathaniel Dickson, 18, was arrested Saturday night at a home in Belton about 20 miles from where the bodies of his father, stepmother, stepsister and younger brother were found, authorities said.

By JEFFREY COLLINS

3 minute read

October 11, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled a man's privacy was not violated when his wife's daughter-in-law managed to get into his email and find out the name of his lover because the messages remained in his inbox.

By Jeffrey Collins

3 minute read

April 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

An accountant who killed himself after police questioned him in the disappearance of two wealthy clients had embezzled $2.1 million from the couple and seven companies, his former employer said.An audit ordered by The Club Group found that chief financial officer Dennis Gerwing took money from its clients for four years, depositing it into a hidden checking account, the management company said Tuesday.

By JEFFREY COLLINS

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February 15, 2010 | Daily Report Online

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he wants to work with the White House to create a way to have military trials for terror suspects that include due process and that make the proceedings as open as possible.The argument over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects in the Sept.

By JEFFREY COLLINS

3 minute read

July 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP - A South Carolina judge Tuesday revoked the license of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a 6-foot-7 body so it would fit in a casket.Administrative Law Judge Deborah Durden gave her decision immediately after hearing the appeal of Cave Funeral Home and owner Michael Cave.The ruling may be the end the family business founded in Allendale 49 years ago.

By JEFFREY COLLINS

3 minute read

May 31, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The board that runs South Carolina's environmental agency decided Thursday not to reconsider a request to allow deeper dredging in the Savannah River, setting up a courtroom showdown next week in the fight over helping bigger ships reach the port in Savannah, Ga.

By Jeffrey Collins

3 minute read