South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal is expected to tell legislators how she’ll handle budget cuts.

A federal judge says South Carolina must stop marketing and making licenses plates that feature the image of a cross and the words “I Believe.“ A federal judge issued a temporary injunction during a court hearing Thursday after opponents said the plates violate the separation of church and state.

New Haven Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert ruled that gay and lesbian couples now may pick up marriage license forms at town and city clerks’ offices statewide.

Police say Aaron Moricoli killed his brother Jimmy with a cast iron frying pan at their mother’s house in Goose Creek.

A federal appeals court has ordered Ohio’s top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of new voters.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed.

The federal government plans to open a new court in Charlotte. N.C., next month to handle illegal immigration cases in North and South Carolina.

O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson, 61, could go to prison for life.

The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that a jury deliberated less than three hours Wednesday before finding 35-year-old La-Tonya Chisolm guilty of two felonies.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper caught on video ramming a suspect with his patrol car is expected in court this week as preparations for his upcoming federal trial get under way.

U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said Thursday that Eugene Platt had a weak chance of winning the case on its merits.

The judge denied bond for Justin Hillerby, the man accused of killing the 2-year-old Summerville boy. 

The Dallas Independent School District said in a statement that items that represent a gang are prohibited.

Attorneys for a South Carolina man condemned to die for killing his ex-girlfriend say their client should have received a life sentence after jurors told the trial judge they were split over the sentence.

Chief Justice Jean Toal has issued an order allowing bail hearings, guilty pleas and preliminary hearings in magistrate and municipal courts to be handled through videoconferencing from jails.