Beasley appoints Florida official to lead South Carolina DSS
David Beasley taps James T. Clark, former head of Florida welfare to work, to head the Department of Social Services. Clark vows program review, welfare reform, and tighter time limits on aid while examining foster care deaths. Beasley to be sworn in with cabinet approvals pending.
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David Beasley
Florida
Department of Social Services
James T. Clark
DSS
Sam Griswold
Parker Evatt
Probation and Parole
Labor, and Alcohol
Beasley
State Senate
Griswold
Clark
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Drug Abuse and Mental Health Department
South Carolina
Welfare program picks four South Carolina counties
An experimental plan requires AFDC recipients to, with a case worker, craft a living without public assistance plan and then obtain a private sector job within two months or accept a state public sector position. Refusal ends benefits. in Charleston and Barnwell the whole family loses aid, in Berkeley and Dorchester only the adult is penalized. Job success preserves Medicaid and child care for a year while AFDC benefits phase out.
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South Carolina
Charleston
Barnwell
Berkeley
Dorchester
Supreme Court rejects Ri mert killer appeal in 1990 case
The U S Supreme Court declined to hear Gary Rimert’s appeal over a murder verdict that spared him to prison rather than a mental hospital. His attorney argued the judge failed to explain the differing consequences of guilty but mentally ill versus insanity verdicts.
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Gary Rimert
Rimert
U.S. Supreme Court
David Bruck
Bruck
High Court
South Carolina
Sgt Reliford Sentenced to Maximum for Murder Case
In a Browning courtroom Sgt Reliford received the maximum sentence for the Irene Nelson murder case. The prosecution highlighted fingerprint evidence and an alibi scheme involving Shaw nette Pankey and Eftihia Stoumbos. Nelson’s mother begged for the harshest punishment as Reliford pleaded guilty and faced parole eligibility in about seven years.
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Andy Watford
Trolley Line
Aiken County
Sue Townsend
Shawnette Pankey
Eftihia
Ms. Nelson
Pauline Nelson
Sgt. Relford
Mrs. Nelson
Beliford
Jerry M. Screen
Columbia
Robert J. Harte
Aiken
Harte
Sgt. Reliford
You and the Law Dam on Personal Injury Damages
The text explains civil liability for injuries, damages calculated in monetary terms, and cites seeking attorney help. It advertises a personal injury attorney offering free initial consultations, contingency-fee arrangements, and contact details for an office at 355 Pendleton St NW with hours Monday to Friday.
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The
South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association
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