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All six lanes of a section Interstate 85 in Greenville County were shut down for hours Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat in a tractor trailer truck. The truck’s driver was arrested and has been identified by the SC Department of Public Safety as Ahmad Jamal Khamees Alhendi, 28, of Oak Lawn, Illinois. Greenville County Detention Center records indicate he has been charged with operating an ...

Beth Martyn came with 19 people to see the legislative process. Martyn, the principal at Divine Redeemer Catholic School in Hanahan, and those families wanted to show their support for a bill to allow public money to go to private schools, this time using lottery revenue instead of tax dollars. Martyn’s group, which included students and parents, says it’s not there to pull at heartstrings. ...

Stephen Byrne, who was getting ready to spend 15 months in federal prison for his role in the former SCANA’s $9 billion dollar nuclear fiasco at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant, got a nice New Year’s gift on Thursday. He won’t have to go to prison after all. Byrne, who lives in the Charleston area, is getting a reward for cooperating with federal prosecutors — no slammer. Instead, he’ll spend 15 ...

An outside audit on the existence of $1.8 billion sitting in a state flow through account has been delayed. S.C. Department of Administration Executive Director Marcia Adams wrote to Gov. Henry McMaster that the report from outside auditors due Dec. 31 would not be sent to the governor’s office and top lawmakers until Jan. 15. Lawmakers set aside $3 million for the outside forensic auditor to ...

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Beth Martyn came with 19 people to see the legislative process. Martyn, the principal at Divine Redeemer Catholic School in Hanahan, and those families wanted to show their support for a bill to allow public money to go to private schools, this time using lottery revenue instead of tax dollars. Martyn’s group, which included students and parents, says it’s not there to pull at heartstrings. ...

An outside audit on the existence of $1.8 billion sitting in a state flow through account has been delayed. S.C. Department of Administration Executive Director Marcia Adams wrote to Gov. Henry McMaster that the report from outside auditors due Dec. 31 would not be sent to the governor’s office and top lawmakers until Jan. 15. Lawmakers set aside $3 million for the outside forensic auditor to ...

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