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Research show that incarcerating children - even for very short periods of time - increases the likelihood they will have further involvement in the juvenile justice and adult prison system.

Our state is hazardous to women's health. An extreme or alarmist statement? Not really.

"We absolutely can’t keep kicking the can down the road,” Rutherford said. He said he hopes the bill will be amended on the House floor to more match the Senate version.

Equipping officers with body-worn cameras has the support from top politicians, including Gov. Nikki Haley, and state police and legal groups, including the S.C. Law Enforcement Officers' Association, S.C. Sheriffs’ Association and S.C. Bar.

The ACLU of South Carolina urges state and federal officials to conduct a thorough investigation into the practices of the North Charleston Police Department following the fatal shooting last weekend of Walter Scott.

Video shows officer firing on man eight times as he runs away.

At about 9:30 a.m., North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, who is white, pulled Scott over near the auto store for allegedly driving with a broken tail light. Within minutes, a routine traffic stop had escalated into a pursuit.

Attempting to restore trust in law enforcement after the fatal shooting of Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer, a state Senate panel on Thursday affirmed the right to record police activity in public and called for independent investigations of police shootings.

A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge after a video surfaced Tuesday of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as the man ran away.