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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - By. Jody Barr

Nearly five years after federal indictments uprooted the South Carolina Highway Patrol's leadership, newevidence is uncovered that a former high-ranking patrol official says shows the problem of racial discrimination still exists. 

WIS started investigating complaints of racial discrimination by patrolmen after we uncovered video of the patrol's internal affairs chief from January. In the traffic stop, a trooper cuffed Bobby Collins on suspected DUI, but let him go after the chief passed all the roadside sobriety tests. 

It was the information in those cases former the DPS Chief said explains the way he acted during the January traffic stop. Collins, whose job was to investigate every complaint mad...

By Nate Stewart, WLTX news

Richland County, SC (WLTX) -- Three motions have been filed to dismiss the class-action lawsuit over the data breach at the Revenue Department.The lawsuit filed in October 2012, charges Gov. Haley, the former Director of the Revenue Department Jim Etter, the Department of State Information Technology, and the company Trustwave with failure to protect the citizens of South Carolina from the hacking that has taken place.   

The motions, filed in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, request a judge dismiss the lawsuit because the three Defendants have immunity under the South Carolina Tort Claims Act.The motions also claim that the lawsuit should be thrown out since the data breach is the subject of an on-going invest...

REUTERS

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years.The execution is scheduled to be carried out at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas after 6 p.m. local time.

Women are rarely executed in the United States. Only 12 female inmates were put to death since capital punishment was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.The last woman executed was Teresa Lewis in Virginia on Sept. 23, 2010, the information center said."Although women commit about 10 percent of murders, capital cases also require some aggravating factor like rape, robbery, or physical ab...

By Martha Neil

By Mark Sherman, AP

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to allow police to routinely order blood tests for unwilling drunken-driving suspects without at least trying to obtain a search warrant from a judge.The court heard arguments Wednesday in a case about a disputed blood test from Missouri, against the backdrop of a serious national problem of more than 10,000 deaths from crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers in 2010, about one every 51 minutes.That number has dropped by 60 percent in the past 20 years because of a sustained national crackdown on drunken driving. Lawyers for Missouri and the Obama administration argued that dispensing with a warrant requirement would further that effort because any delay in t...