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By WBTW News Staff

SURFSIDE BEACH, SC (WBTW) - Surfside Beach police were called to a reported motorcycle crash Friday afternoon.

The crash happened around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 10th Avenue South and Hollywood Drive.

A man and a woman injured in the crash were treated by EMS.

There's no word on what caused the crash.

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By Ryan J. Reilly ryan.reilly@huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON -- A "sweeping"   new Justice Department policy   that instructs federal agents with the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Marshals Service to electronically record statements that suspects make in custody under most circumstances will protect both the constitutional rights of defendants and benefit law enforcement, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a video posted by the Justice Department on Thursday.

"Federal agents and prosecutors throughout the nation are firmly committed to due process in their rigorous and evenhanded enforcement of the law," Holder said. "This new recording policy not only reaffirms our steadfast commitment to these ideals -- it will provide verifi...

By: Tonya Brown

Kaleb Cabbagestalk, 21, filed a lawsuit against the Florence County Sheriff's Office, Florence County Solicitor's Office, Florence County Detention Center and the SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, saying he was falsely imprisoned for seven months at the Florence County Detention Center after armed robbery charges against him were dropped.

TheFlorence County Sheriff's Office legal counselor Captain Michael Nunn released the following statement to WPDE NewsChannel 15 regarding the lawsuit:

"FCSO and FCDC accepted service of the suit papers filed by Mr. Cabbagestalk yesterday and we are reviewingthe allegations for the first time. While I can't go into any details about the suit at this time, I can say that p...

By: Tonya Brown

Kaleb Cabbagestalk, 21, filed a lawsuit against the Florence County Sheriff's Office, Florence County Solicitor's Office, Florence County Detention Center and the SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, saying he was falsely imprisoned for seven months at the Florence County Detention Center after armed robbery charges against him were dropped.

The suit says on March 12, 2012 the Florence County Solicitor's Office informed the Florence County Detention Center and Florence County Sheriff's Office that Cabbagestalk's armed robbery charge stemming from the November 3, 2010 arrest was going to be dismissed and that Cabbagestalk should not be detained any further for the armed robbery charge.

However,the Florence Cou...

By Erin Coe

Law360, San Diego (March 21, 2013, 8:43 PM ET) -- A lawyer representing Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Thursday urged a federal multidistrict panel not to consolidate 49 personal injury cases alleging its Mirena intrauterine contraceptive device was defective and perforated or migrated in women’s bodies, arguing that centralization will delay the first federal trial over the purported defects.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation at a hearing in San Diego to centralize the suits pending in 26 different jurisdictions to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio or courts in several other states, but Marie Woodbury, a Shook Hardy & Bacon partner represe...