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Federal Tipoffs Involving South Carolina Newsletter for Thursday June 27, 2024 ( 2 items )  

S.C. U.S. Attorney: Columbia Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Gun and Drug Offenses
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Kenneth Archie, 44, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana. Evidence presented to the court showed that on June 14, 2021, the Richland County Sheriff's Department responded to an apa  more

VERIZON WIRELESS TO PAY OVER $1 MILLION TO SETTLE FCC INVESTIGATION INTO 911 OUTAGE IN SIX STATES
WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following news release on June 25, 2024: The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau today announced a settlement to resolve its investigation into whether Verizon Wireless violated FCC rules by failing to deliver 911 calls during an outage in December 2022, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. As Congress and the Commission have found, robust and reliable 911 service i  more