COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced updates in the Prison Empire investigation after a special term of court for the State Grand Jury during the week of June 24, 2024, in Pickens County. Jennifer Nicole Burns, a major target of the Prison Empire and Las Senoritas investigation, pleaded guilty to her charges in the Prison Empire investigation on the morning of trial. Bu  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 18, 2024: Attorney General Alan Wilson led a 12-state coalition that filed a brief Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in a case about protecting parental rights. The brief asks the Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court that dismissed a lawsuit brought by a parent when a school allegedly helped a student with their gender transition without the parent  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 19, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson today joined a 22-state amicus brief in support of Florida's request to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the state to enforce its law regulating sex-modification procedures while the district court's order enjoining the law is heard on appeal. The case is Doe v. Surgeon General, State of Florida. Like half the sta  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded a $1,456,019,386 modification (P00086) to a previously awarded fixed-priced-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract (N0001918C1037). This modification procures nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft (four for the Navy and five for Japan), to include over and above support. Work will be performed in Saint Augustine,  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond issued the following Beige Book on July 17, 2024: * * * Summary of Economic Activity The Fifth District economy grew slightly this cycle, down from the modest pace of growth reported in our previous report. Consumer spending rose mildly but there were reports of consumers pulling back on big ticket items and becoming more price conscious at restaurants. Leisure and business travel, on the other hand, increased moderately. Re  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 19 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that a court ruling in Kansas will temporarily block the Biden administration's new Title IX Rule from being implemented at some South Carolina schools, colleges, and universities. The Biden administration has reinterpreted Title IX's prohibitions on sex discrimination to include "gender identity." Although South Carolina is not a party to this suit  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: A South Carolina man was sentenced to prison today after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Tyler Bradley  more