John Monk
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“Dying breed,” reporter, The State in SC; justice, crime, including Murdaugh murders & Jan 6 issues. Ex Char Obs Wash Corresp. Reader. Hiker. US Army.
Columbia SC
Joined June 2009
Trump’s Justice Dept jumps into SC local case feet first Columbia SC white man faces federal hate crime charges in alleged shooting https://t.co/SzbP6YNULZ
thestate.com
A SC federal grand jury indicted a Columbia area white man on federal hate crime and other charges in an alleged July shooting at a Black man.
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A lawman’s lawman. He had a talent for getting crooks to confess and was beloved by colleagues. Legendary SC lawman Pete Logan, who cracked Susan Smith case, dies at 90 https://t.co/SisaHgv4c6
thestate.com
Legendary SC lawman Pete Logan, who worked for the FBI and SLED, has died at 90. He cracked the Susan Smith murders and was a beloved mentor.
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Trump’s address avoids major issues: possible war with Venezuela, possible surrender of Ukraine to Russia, Epstein files, gun violence, pardoning violent J6 insurrectionists, rising health care insurance costs, exploding national debt and deficits, gutting FBI & Justice Dept etc
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A Columbia church advertised financial help for the low income. Then dozens were turned away. Why? https://t.co/alMLu4ddfW
thestate.com
The answer comes down to recent changes in national immigration policy and federal red tape.
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The Americans were losing the American Revolution, the North, the Civil War — but they hung in there. Why does Trump want Ukraine to surrender to Russia?
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Becky Hill — one of the many sucked into the vortex of ruined human lives created by one Alex Murdaugh Bizarre tale of Murdaugh clerk Becky Hill ends with guilty pleas but no prison time https://t.co/eWRL3wmfqm
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Rebecca “Becky” Hill ends a chapter of the Murdaugh murder saga by pleading guilty to charges of obstruction, misconduct and perjury.
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Under Trump push for more death penalty cases, case of Columbia SC alleged gang chief now in play Will feds seek death penalty against Columbia SC rapper ‘Blacc Zacc’ Chapman? https://t.co/fVniyRjogP
thestate.com
SC federal officials mull whether to seek the death penalty against Columbia rapper Zachary Chapman, alleged chief of a murderous drug gang.
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Former SC special prosecutor David Pascoe who convicted lawmakers on corruption charges blasts former House Speaker Jay Lucas for saying retirement laws don't apply to him. years https://www.fitsnews.com/2025/12/02/guest-column-s-c-supreme-court-becomes-political-spoils-system/
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Ex-SC House Speaker Jay Lucas lobs a bomb into normally sedate Supreme Court justice selection process Attorney General stands by 2022 opinion that 72 is retirement age for SC judges https://t.co/ZQzvjBXZTg
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SC Attorney General’s office rebuffs claim by Jay Lucas that if elected to the state Supreme Court, he can ignore mandatory retirement age of 72
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Not every day a respected and aging South Carolina federal judge stands up to the Trump Administration in a nationally prominent case and gives a class on the rule of law and the Constitution.
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SC federal Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who dealt blow to Trump prosecutions of his political foes, is no stranger to controversy.
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@ SC chicken plant saboteur has bond revoked after Clemson game day DUI https://t.co/dgYRIDZiEG
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Just days after sentencing dumping hazardous chemicals in a South Carolina chicken plant, William Jason Taylor was charged with a DUI.
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Opinion by Anne Applebaum
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. https://t.co/bLuBqKRrAd
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Ukraine reacts to Russian- US “peace” plan, which heavily favors the invader, Russia
Zelensky: We are facing one of the most dangerous periods in Ukrainian history, a choice between losing our dignity and freedom and losing US support. We choose dignity. My answer is my oath of office. I did not betray Ukraine in Feb 2022 and we won’t betray in now.
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Two of SC’s best-known attorneys— Creighton Waters(left), who successfully prosecuted Alex Murdaugh, and Dick Harpootlian, who defended Murdaugh, chatted at a lawyers’ drop-in this week in Columbia. I couldn’t resist taking a photo. Together they made legal history.
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SC anti-abortion group was a fixture at Planned Parenthood, then came a shooting https://t.co/Y04rPTknH4
thestate.com
For more than a decade, A Moment of Hope has operated an anti-abortion “sidewalk ministry” in front of Columbia’s Planned Parenthood clinic.
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Normal norms and maybe even the law don’t apply to powerful ex-House Speaker Jay Lucas, who seeks to leapfrog to elite S.C. Supreme Court justice post, Lucas claims Lucas wants SC Supreme Court seat until age 80; Few defends abortion opinions https://t.co/rvKhPxt9FE
thestate.com
Three people are challenging SC Associate Justice John Few: Administrative Law Judge Ralph Anderson, Appeals Court Judge Blake Hewitt and former House Speaker Jay Lucas.
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Today — After claims of ‘botched’ firing squad, SC prepares to execute Stephen Bryant https://t.co/vMhjNh0aLl
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Stephen Bryant has chosen to die by firing squad after pleading guilty to three murders and one attempted murder in Sumter, South Carolina
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