State lawmakers patch jobless benefits rules in SC
South Carolina lawmakers approve a temporary change to deny unemployment benefits to workers fired for gross misconduct including damaging property drug use insubordination or sleeping on the job The measure requires the Employment Security Commission to disclose more on claims and appeals as part of a broader overhaul planned this year Final House approval pending in the Senate and Friday vote.
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South Carolina
House
Employment Security Commission
Senate
Commission
Akebono to Add 280 Jobs in South Carolina Expansion
Akebono Brake Corp, a Japanese firm supplying brakes for GM Ford Toyota and Nissan, will nearly double its Lexington County plant staff. The expansion near Columbia Regional Airport includes a $28 million investment, using equipment from its closed Knoxville Tennessee plant.
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General Motors
Ford
Toyota
Nissan
South Carolina
Akebono
Knoxville, Tenn
Lexington County
Sanford spends 185000 in campaign fees and rebuke
The ethics probe into Gov. Mark Sanford cost his campaign at least $185,347 with three payments to Hall and Bowers LLC, excluding state-paid legal costs from impeachment hearings. The quarter saw $259,052 in total spending and $1.4 million remaining, with Red Sea LLC paid $66,100 in October.
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Columbia
Mark Sanford
Sanford
Columbia Law Firm
Hall & Bowers LLC
House
Red Sea Lllc
Bethesda
South Carolina vote on secretary of state election fails
South Carolina lawmakers fall short of two thirds needed to put the secretary of state election to voters. The House approved the measure 72 to 38, but that tally misses the required supermajority. A reconsideration could occur next week.
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S.C
Columbia
South Carolina
House
Hearn Becomes Second Woman on South Carolina High Court
Columbia South Carolina Court swears in Kaye Hearn as the state Supreme Court’s second female justice. She replaces retiring Justice John Waller whose term runs to 2012. Hearn previously led the Court of Appeals and was the first woman to chair it.
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South Carolina
Court of Appeals
Kaye Hearn
State Supreme Court
Hearn
John Waller
Marion
State House
Senate
Don Beatty
Jean Toal
Toal
Carol Connor
Ex-deacon to face state court in Greenville
Bruce Windsor a former South Carolina deacon sentenced to prison for bank robbery is set to appear in Greenville on state robbery and kidnapping charges. He was previously sentenced to 11 years in federal prison on bank robbery and weapons charges after pleading guilty. In Florence a man is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the New Year’s Day shooting death of Raymond Jerome King. Sylvester F. Rush of Florence was arrested and King died from wounds.
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Greenville
South Carolina
Bruce Windsor
Florence
Timmonsville
Sylvester F. Rush
Florence County
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