An Atlantic Beach Town Council candidate and her husband were arrested Wednesday night and charged with interference or hindering officers serving a warrant or rescuing prisoners. The town’s police chief, Eric Lewis, said the charges are related to the two disobeying a lawful order to stay out of the church where Town Council candidate Windy Price is pastor. Bail was set at $500 each for Windy Price, 39, and Darnell Price, 46, during a Thursday morning hearing at J
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The largest oil spill in U.S. history has unleashed a gusher of at least 250 class-action lawsuits that could eventually encompass millions of victims in a legal battle expected to stretch on for decades.
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial elements of Arizona’s new immigration law, thrilling the law’s opponents, dismaying its advocates and setting the stage for more legal battles in the future. “We would have liked to have seen it all upheld, but a temporary injunction is not the end of it,” said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the legislation in April. “I look at this as a little bump in the road.”
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The solicitor’s office has turned over information to the State Ethics Commission about whether former Surfside Beach administrator Ed Booth violated state ethics law. Herb Hayden, the executive director of the State Ethics Commission, said the office is “reviewing what [the solicitor's office] sent us to see whether or not there are any potential violations.” There have been accusations that Booth passed inside information to a company that was bidding for restaurant space on the town-owned pier. Booth began working with television personality Cecil Chandler’s restaurant company – called Surfside Beach Cafe at the Pier LLC – shortly after he left the administrator’s job in May.
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A Myrtle Beach home was heavily damaged by water and smoke after a fire Wednesday afternoon, according to Myrtle Beach fire officials. The fire was reported around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at 401 Poinsett Road when the home’s occupants heard an explosion, evacuated , and called 911, said Dan Cimini, assistant chief for the Myrtle Beach Fire Department.
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Sweepstakes parlors will be banned in North Carolina in December, thanks to a law signed last week; but new fronts are opening in the battle to keep people playing electronic poker and slots. Even before the state House and Senate finished work on a bill to ban the games, the industry was threatening a wave of lawsuits and technical changes that they said would keep them legal.
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Despite calls from some of the state’s top legislators for South Carolina State University to turn over financial documents on millions in unaccounted for money for the James E. Clyburn University Transportation Center, school officials refused to provide the information Wednesday. The newspaper filed an official request Wednesday under the state’s Freedom of Information law to compel the university to release public financial documents that could explain how about $25 million for transportation programs has been spent since the center was launched more than a decade ago. The law allows university officials to wait up to 15 working days to say whether they intend to grant or deny the request.
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