Glenn Smith
Post & Courier
Charleston, SC, United States
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Despite reforms, SC still ranks among nation's deadliest states for women
South Carolina still ranks near the top deadliest states in the U.S. of women killed at the hands of men. → Read More
Report says ‘Charleston loophole’ helped thousands of domestic abusers obtain guns
Thousands of convicted domestic abusers were able to buy guns in recent years due to the same loophole in the FBI’s background check system that allowed Dylann Roof to arm himself before killing nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel AME C → Read More
Charleston County School District stalls on releasing information about teacher’s removal
The Charleston County School District has spent months sidestepping the state’s open records law and stonewalling inquiries into a secretive investigation that led to the removal of a teacher at one of its top magnet schools. → Read More
S.C. Supreme Court to hear Pascoe-Wilson case in June
After seven weeks of silence, the S.C. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to weigh in on whether a special prosecutor can open a state grand jury investigation into Statehouse corruption without the blessing of the attorney general who appointed him. → Read More
Statehouse probe stalled while Supreme Court mulls who should control investigation
An investigation into Statehouse corruption is stuck in limbo while the state Supreme Court tries to decide whether the probe should remain in the hands of a special prosecutor fired by the attorney general who appointed him. → Read More
A mix of hope, skepticism greets North Charleston’s bid for police reform
To people who lambasted North Charleston’s police force after a video showed one of its officers killing Walter Scott, the city’s answer last week to their calls for reform rings hollow. → Read More
North Charleston asks feds to help improve its police department
North Charleston on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to do an independent, three-year analysis of its police force, a move city officials hope will restore trust lost a year ago after the shooting death of Walter Scott. → Read More
North Charleston asks feds to help improve police department
North Charleston on Thursday asked the Department of Justice to do an independent, three-year analysis of its police force, a move city officials hope will restore trust lost a year ago after the shooting death of Walter Scott. → Read More
North Charleston police investigating after suspect found with officer’s missing gun
North Charleston police are trying to determine whether a gun that went missing from one of their officers was involved in any crimes before it was recovered about a month later. → Read More
Sex-change battle behind bars: Local killer wants the state to help with transformation into a woman
Katheryn Brown has been locked behind bars for 13 years for the murder of a Charleston woman, with little hope of ever going free. But she says her real prison is the male body she has been trapped in since birth. → Read More
SLED report on corruption probe includes names of two close to attorney general
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is trying to fire a special prosecutor handling a corruption probe that includes two of his close political associates named in a criminal investigative report, according to sources familiar with the docume → Read More
Texts, emails show AG aide plotted with GOP consultants before news conference over Pascoe
A chief aide of S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson apparently plotted with high-powered Republican consultants before last week’s fiery news conference in which Wilson torched David Pascoe — his own special prosecutor — texts and → Read More
Man who captured Walter Scott shooting has dropped out of public eye
The world at large didn’t know Feidin Santana’s name before he captured the police shooting of Walter Scott on a grainy cellphone video. Now, Santana appears intent on dialing back the clock to the days before he was hailed a hero in th → Read More
Driggers: North Charleston police ‘growing through’ the tragedy of Walter Scott’s killing
Eddie Driggers cocks his head at the sound of his name and smiles broadly at the four men waving to him from the yard of a weathered home bathed in the waning light of a spring afternoon in North Charleston. → Read More
Newly appointed prosecutor in Statehouse corruption probe says he’ll defer taking any action
Update: Attorney General Alan Wilson has scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. in the Rembert Dennis office building on the Statehouse grounds. His spokeswoman, Hayley Thrift, would not say what Wilson will discuss, but he is widely expected to tal → Read More
Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office appoints new prosecutor in Statehouse corruption probe
Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office moved quickly to assign a new special prosecutor for the Statehouse corruption probe, tapping a Columbia-area solicitor a day after dumping the man he’d initially chosen amid an ongoing feud. → Read More
Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office appoints new prosecutor in Statehouse corruption probe
Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office moved quickly to assign a new special prosecutor for the Statehouse corruption probe, tapping a Columbia-area solicitor a day after dumping the man he’d initially chosen amid an ongoing feud. → Read More
Solicitor David Pascoe says he won’t step down from corruption probe unless court-ordered to do so
COLUMBIA — In a stunning move amid a high-stakes legal and political battle, Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office on Monday fired the special prosecutor he’d appointed to root out public corruption in the S.C. Statehouse. → Read More
For Charleston-area homicides, 2015 was one of the deadliest years
A grandmother shot by a stranger while going out for lunch. A mother of three whose car was riddled with bullets fired by people who mistook her for someone else. Nine targeted by a gunman during a Bible study because of their race. → Read More
Accused Planned Parenthood shooter charged with rape in North Charleston in 1992
The man accused of opening fire Friday in a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood was charged with rape in Charleston more than 20 years ago, according to police reports. → Read More