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FILE - This Jan. 17, 2021, file photo shows the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina s Legislature is ending its regular session on Thursday, April 13, 2021, ceremonially wrapping up its duties but expecting at least several returns later in the year to handle more work, including how to spend federal funding related to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The state spending plan heading to the South Carolina House floor next week offers state employees a 3% raise and teachers a $1,000 bump in pay.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday approved a nearly $11 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The spending plan includes money the state didn t spend this budget year because lawmakers feared a more serious economic downturn in the COVID-19 pandemic.
A South Carolina woman who fired a weapon into the house and apartment of two of her neighbors and shot a Black man in his front yard in 2017 has been convicted of all charges and sentenced to decades in prison.
On May 21, a jury found 48-year-old Mandy Morrow Fortson guilty of attempted murder, discharging a firearm into a dwelling, and breach of peace aggravated in nature, according to the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office.
Mandy Morrow Fortson was found guilty of attempted murder, discharging a firearm into a dwelling, and breach of peace for a 2017 incident in which shot into the homes of Hispanic and Black families. (Photo: Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office)
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021 file photo, South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas, left, and Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, right, talk before a news conference in Columbia, S.C. Lucas and Massey are both on a conference committee that will try to work on a compromise on a bill to reform state-owned utility Santee Cooper. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File).
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) A powerful group of South Carolina House and Senate leaders met Wednesday, pledging to take differences in each chamber s proposal to overhaul state-owned utility Santee Cooper to their members before getting together again next week to vote on a compromise.
I have a headache… That will teach me for drinking too much? Not really. We had a good time, it was a great party and I will go on the wagon for a few days. Being older, I don’t recover as fast but I’m not addicted to consciousness modifying substances… I just indulge their existence.
I could feel despair nonetheless with my throbbing brains… But not really. I’m hopefully a learned optimist, even if some others people are loony… It will be a slow day… No noises please… But I still can think a little bit: for example, the intents of some good persons go astray… Take this email for example forwarded by an atheist mate who subscribes. The message comes from the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):