South Carolina House approves abridged sales tax bill
The South Carolina House passed a trimmed bill by 63-39 that cuts under $11 million in exemptions and lowers the sales tax by a fraction of a penny. Core necessities remain exempt while guns, back to school items, lottery tickets, newspapers, and 85 plus discounts are cut. Speaker Harrell touted preserving essential exemptions.
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Columbia
South Carolina
House
Tommy Stringer
Bobby Harrell
Charleston
South Carolina House approves open records law
The South Carolina House passed a bill 101 to 1 to curb excessive fees for public records and speed up responses. It ends legislators’ exemption, limits paper copies to market rates, bans charges for electronic data, and requires posting or availability of six months of documents and meeting minutes.
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Columbia
South Carolina
House
Bill Taylor
R-Aiken
FedEx
Staples
Diamond Pet Foods Recalls Dry Dog Food Over Salmonella
Missouri based Diamond Pet Foods recalls a second batch of Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul Adult Light and related 35 lb and 6 lb dry dog foods produced at the Gaston South Carolina plant after a positive Salmonella test. Production suspended. no illnesses reported. Product distributed to 10 states including Florida Massachusetts New York and Virginia. Customers told to discard and stop feeding the recalled lots.
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Kansas City
Diamond Pet Foods
South Carolina
Gaston
Florida
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Penn
Sylvania
Virginia
Diamond Naturals
Diamond
Janine Smiley
Hebrew Boys victims to receive payout plan approval
U S District Judge Margaret Seymour approved a plan to distribute about 19 million dollars to 3,842 investors swindled by Joseph Brunson Timothy McQueen and Tony Pough in an 80 million dollar scam. The three men were convicted in 2009 on 58 counts each of mail fraud money laundering and related charges.
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U.S
Margaret Seymour
Joseph Brunson
Timothy McQueen
Tony Pough
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