A federal jury in Charleston has awarded the family of the former mayor of Cottageville $97 million for his shooting death. The jury reached the decision in the negligence and wrongful death suit filed by the family of Burt Reeves. …
A former Orangeburg, S.C., nursing home employee has won a defamation lawsuit against his former employer. Ralph C. Williams Sr., 58, has been awarded $1 million after being cleared of charges that he sexually assaulted a resident at the Orangeburg …
A Spartanburg County South Carolina woman’s family has been awarded $2 million in damages for her death five years ago. A jury recently found in favor of the family of Janice G. Easler, the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported. The family …
A jury has awarded $700,000 to the family of a 21-year-old man killed in a head-on crash with a Colleton County deputy who was racing to check on a burglar alarm without turning on his emergency lights and siren. However, …
Two South Carolina teens have been awarded $500,000 each in a lawsuit over the so-called “choking game” at a Clarendon County camp for children of deployed soldiers or those preparing to go overseas. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported …
