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Palmetto Past & Present: Remembering The Stono Rebellion
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The word was shouted over and over – in one loud, cacophonous voice. “Liberty.” In this day and age, it was more than an idealistic slogan for the marching men. To them, it was literal. It meant freedom. Their own personal freedom.
Texas Fugitive Found In South Carolina
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Deputies with the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) – and agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) – arrested a Texas man in the Palmetto Lowcountry this week after he fled his trial for manslaughter in the Lone Star State more than a year ago.
South Carolina Venomous Snake Bite Update
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Authorities in Florence, South Carolina provided an update this week on their investigation into a man bitten by one of the world’s most venomous snakes last Friday (September 6, 2024). As we reported yesterday, South Florence high school teacher Jeff Liebowitz was bitten...
Harris Versus Trump: Playing For All the Marbles
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s the political equivalent of a high-wire act without a net. Ninety minutes of live primetime television with tens of millions of Americans watching. And it comes at T-Minus 56 days and counting till Election Day, too. In a presidential election that’s hold-your-breath...
Bowen Turner: ‘Fortunate Son’ Heads To South Carolina Appeals Court
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The case of Bowen Turner – South Carolina’s notorious ‘fortunate son’ – is heading to the Palmetto State’s second-highest court this week. This Tuesday (September 10, 2024), the S.C. court of appeals will hear two separate appeals relating...
South Carolina Snake Handler Fights For Survival After Venomous Bite
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A South Carolina man is reportedly fighting for his life after he was bitten by one of the most venomous snakes in the world early Friday morning (September 6, 2024). Jeff Liebowitz, a teacher at South Florence High School, was transported to the intensive...
Gamecock Football: Kentucky Cure For Beamerball Blues
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two years ago, a road victory over then-No. 13 Kentucky gave University of South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer his first signature win – and helped propel the Gamecock program to a New Year’s Day bowl invitation. This year, a surprising upset win over the unranked Wildcats gave his foundering program a huge shot in the arm as it embarks on one of the most brutal schedules in all of college football.
Airbnb Voyeurism: South Carolina Civil Trial Set To Begin
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of the civil cases filed against an individual at the heart of a national Airbnb voyeurism scandal has been set for trial in Aiken County, South Carolina later this month. According to the S.C. second circuit docket, Rhett Riviere of Aiken is scheduled...
Serial Harassment: Lowcountry Treasurer Maria Walls Takes Beaufort County To Court
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Barring a last-minute settlement, jury selection will commence this week in the case of Maria Walls versus Beaufort County, South Carolina – the first in a string of recent court battles which revolve around allegations of sexual harassment and the chronic mistreatment of women in local government.
New Year, Same Panthers
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Carolina Panthers reinvented their franchise following a disastrous 2023 season that saw them finish with the worst record in the National Football League (NFL). The team hired a new general manager. A new head coach. And brought in tons of new players. So...
Former Clemson Football Star Shot And Killed
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Former Clemson University star wide receiver Diondre Overton was shot and killed at a house party in his native Greensboro, North Carolina during the early morning hours of Saturday, September 7, 2024, according to a news release from the Guilford County sheriff’s office.
South Carolina Democrats Brace For Multiple Senate Losses
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... South Carolina’s perpetual minority party – the Democratic party – has been reduced in recent years to “super-minority” status in both the S.C. Senate and House of Representatives. As a result, “Republicans” – the purported “supermajority” – have enjoyed carte blanche to enact whatever policies they deem appropriate at the S.C. State House.
Ex-Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Guilty of Assault, Misconduct
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After less than two hours of deliberation, former Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) Deputy Johnathan Goldsmith was found guilty of Second Degree Assault and Battery and one count of Misconduct in Office for permanently disfiguring Tony Sims on October 15, 2020. “I, frankly,...
The Great Jobs Replacement
Native-born workers are getting crowded out of the employment economy by illegal aliens…. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More than ten million undocumented aliens have entered the United States illegally since president Joe Biden and his “border czar,” Kamala Harris, took office. Oh, and those are just the border-crossings we know about. There are millions more “got-aways” – and doubtless millions of additional undetected aliens.
Tunnel To Towers Road Race: A Celebration Of Service And Sacrifice
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... All of us remember where we were – and what we were doing – when the unimaginable happened on that terrible Tuesday morning nearly a quarter of a century ago. We also remember how the September 11 terrorist attacks on our nation forged a sense of unity, purpose and duty across our country.
How’s That EV Market Looking Now, South Carolina?
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Just last week, one of our frequent guest columnists penned an insightful piece on the risks associated with “EV corporate cronyism,” or crony capitalist incentive deals linked to electric vehicle manufacturers. In her column, Diane Hardy noted that “given how the EV...
Former South Carolina Senate Candidate Charged With Domestic Violence
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A former South Carolina Senate District 35 candidate stands accused of second degree domestic violence and unlawful conduct towards a child following a convoluted escapade over Labor Day Weekend, according to eyewitnesses. On the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2024, Richard “Jerry” Chivers was...
Donald Trump Sharpens His Economic Message
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With his third presidential campaign struggling to gain traction, former U.S. president Donald Trump is taking a page out of multi-billionaire Elon Musk‘s book. According to reporters Alex Leary and Richard Rubin of The Wall Street Journal, Trump will lay out a series...
Settlement Reached In Greenville Jail Death
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Attorneys in Greenville, South Carolina announced a $2.5 million payout to the widow of a man who died at the Greenville County detention center in the summer of 2020. The facility – which purports to be “humane, safe, legally compliant, secure, sanitary, and citizen-centered”...
Tropics Go Bust
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Back in February, I reported on alarmist projections issued by the purveyors of climate “science” regarding the 2024 hurricane season. For those of you who missed that report, weather experts issued ominous warnings of a “blockbuster” and “super-charged” hurricane season. Forecasters at...
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