Meg Kinnard
January 10, 2013 | Daily Report Online
SC voter ID lawsuit cost state more than $3.5MThe federal government will have to pay a small part of South Carolina's $3.5 million price tag for a lawsuit over the state's tough new voter ID law, a judicial panel has ruled.
By Meg Kinnard
3 minute read
February 07, 2013 | Daily Report Online
Judge mulls request to dismiss SC hacking lawsuitA judge has dismissed Gov. Nikki Haley and the state's former revenue director from a lawsuit over a massive security breach at South Carolina's tax collection agency.
By Meg Kinnard
1 minute read
June 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online
SC high court upholds teen's conviction in Zoloft killings of grandparentsCOLUMBIA, S.C. AP - The South Carolina SupremeCourt upheld the murder conviction Monday of a teenager who claimed antidepressants led him to kill his grandparents and set their house on fire when he was 12 years old.The court ruled against several arguments made by Christopher Pittman's attorneys, including the contention that he was denied a speedy trial before he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in February 2005.
By Meg Kinnard
2 minute read
April 02, 2010 | Daily Report Online
SC death row inmate resentenced to life in prisonBy MEG KINNARD
4 minute read
February 21, 2013 | Daily Report Online
SC-based soldier sues mortgage company over rateAn Army sergeant based in South Carolina has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a mortgage company of not obeying a law that requires limits on interest rates for active-duty members of the military.
By Meg Kinnard
3 minute read
April 24, 2013 | Daily Report Online
SC high court: Board vote on employees' insurance illegalThe state Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the South Carolina Budget and Control Board to return state employee health insurance premiums that a court says were collected illegally.
By Meg Kinnard
3 minute read
July 05, 2007 | Daily Report Online
Federal appeals court upholds SC ban on video gamblingCOLUMBIA, S.C. AP - South Carolina's ban on video gambling was upheld Tuesday by the 4th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals.The state does not have to pay a video poker operator who claimed his machines became valueless when the machines were outlawed seven years ago, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in an unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel.
By Meg Kinnard
2 minute read
April 16, 2013 | Daily Report Online
Toal: Treasurer, panel dispute 'political theater'South Carolina's top jurist on Tuesday characterized a dispute between Treasurer Curtis Loftis and the board that oversees pension funds for the state's public workers as "political theater."
By Meg Kinnard
3 minute read
August 21, 2012 | Daily Report Online
SC man pleads guilty in grisly fraud caseSouth Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge in a scheme authorities say includes severed limbs.
By Meg Kinnard
1 minute read
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