WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: South Carolina residents who have applied for disaster assistance following Hurricane Helene may get a telephone call from FEMA to schedule an inspection of the damaged home, or to obtain more information to process the application. These calls may come from unfamiliar area codes or phone numbers. It is important to answer the call. A FEMA inspection may be req  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2024: * * * Defendant Allegedly Did Not Pay More Than $1M in Taxes to the IRS * * * A federal grand jury in Nashville returned an indictment yesterday charging a former business owner with willfully failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS. According to the indictment, from at least 2011 through 2023, Mari Alexander, of Columbia, South Carolina, was the owner and presid  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2024: * * * Case Was the First Guilty Verdict in Trial for Violence Against a Transgender Person * * * Note: View a video statement from Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcutciXOi94). * * * A South Carolina man, Daqua Lameek Ritter, was sentenced today to life in prison for the December 2019 murder of Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman from All  more

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, Oct. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Nine defendants of a Spartanburg area illegal drug trafficking ring were sentenced to a total of 1,257 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute illegal drugs, including fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine. Three defendants (Bobo, Jacobs, and Canty) were also convicted of money laundering. The follow defendants  more