South Carolina Targets DNC Attendees With Tourism Push
South Carolina promotes Charleston Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head to DNC attendees in Charlotte. The state forms a 2012 committee to boost a $15 billion tourism industry with events in Rock Hill and Brattonsville. Free peaches at I-77 welcome center and a festival in Rock Hill will showcase state stories and Peach State rivalry.
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Family sues Greenville over man's Taser death
A federal civil suit filed against the city of Greenville accuses police officers and Chief Terri Wilfong of excessive force and constitutional rights violations in the 2010 Taser death of 39 year old Andrew Torres. The suit notes prior calls to hospitalize him and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
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Judge overturns death sentence in Winkler case
A South Carolina judge vacated Louis Winkler’s death sentence for the murder of his estranged wife Rebekah Grainger Winkler and sentenced him to life in prison saying trial errors by his original lawyers affected the verdict. Winkler had been on death row since 2008 after a 2006 conviction for murder and first degree burglary in Little River. The state Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence in 2010.
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SCE&G and green group settle arsenic discharge suit
The settlement requires SCE&G to remove all coal ash stored at Wateree Station near Eastover and ends a suit by the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation accusing the utility of discharging arsenic and other contaminants into the Wateree River. The plant, about 25 miles southeast of Columbia, stored coal ash in earthen lagoons and faced claims of leaks and groundwater contamination.
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