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Woman wanted on check forgery charges

Police say she wrote $1,800 in child support checks to herself

MARCH 9, 2010 12:54 p.m. Comments (0)

Greenville County deputies are searching for a woman they say wrote herself fictitious child support checks totaling nearly $1,800.

Candy M. King, 40, whose last known address was 9 Silver Spur Ct., Greenville, is wanted on three counts of forgery in connection with three fictitious checks drawn on the Greenville County Family Court child support account, according to warrants. Continue reading...

John Ludwig Jr. and his Defense Attorney Bruce Byrholdt listens as Judge Matt Hawley pronounces his sentence for Ludwig after Ludwig was found guilty of criminal domestic violence, first offense. Greg Beckner/Staff

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Ludwig gets suspended sentence

Jury says guilty of criminal domestic violence, first offense

FEBRUARY 25, 2010 5:44 p.m. Comments (1)

John Ludwig Jr., the Greenville businessman who avoided jail time for plowing his Maserati through a house and killing the homeowner as he watched television, avoided jail again on Thursday.

A 4-woman, 2-man Greenville Municipal Court jury found Ludwig guilty of criminal domestic violence first offense for hitting his then-estranged wife in February 2009, two months before the fatal wreck. Continue reading...

Bits and bytes missing from USC Upstate

Computer thefts now number 58 since August

FEBRUARY 14, 2010 12:28 p.m. Comments (1)

University of South Carolina Upstate has two or three “persons of interest” in a string of classroom computer thefts that began in August.

USC Upstate Police Chief Klay Peterson said while authorities have identified the persons of interest, he’s not ready to name them suspects or to say arrests in the case are imminent. Continue reading...

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