Charges dropped against Cleveland

New counts pending against former school attorney

JANUARY 11, 2010 10:09 a.m. (0)

Child pornography charges against former Greenville County Schools attorney Wade Cleveland have been dropped.

Cleveland was charged with 13 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor in September 2007 after school district information technology workers doing routine maintenance discovered nude pictures.  Continue reading...

 

Susan Smith wants another day in court

Solicitor says it may be 15 years too late

FEBRUARY 5, 2010 10:26 a.m. (6)

Michael Smith would have been 18 this year.

His brother Alexander 16.  Continue reading...

 

History that's living

Wofford grad, former journalist turns headlines into novels

FEBRUARY 10, 2011 2:01 p.m. (0)

Headlines still attract former television journalist Batt Humphries.

But instead of turning today’s top events into the leading story on the evening news – first as a television reporter in Charleston and lastly as a producer for CBS News in New York – he’s turning yesterday’s headlines into historic novels.

His first novel, “Dead Weight,” told the story of Daniel “Nealy” Duncan, a black man hanged a century ago for a murder he swore he didn’t commit, that of a white Charleston shopkeeper.  Continue reading...

 

For Barnette, it’s personal

Former Travelers Rest teacher promoted to job of top prosecutor in Spartanburg County

MARCH 3, 2011 9:49 p.m. (0)

View slideshow to see photos of Barnette's swearing in ceremony  Continue reading...

 

John Ludwig goes to prison

Judge sentences him to three years in prison for violating probation

JANUARY 19, 2012 2:09 p.m. (0)

John Ludwig avoided jail time when he plowed his Maserati through a house, killing the homeowner watching television on his couch. But a November argument with his wife is sending him to prison.

Circuit Judge C. Victor Pyle revoked Ludwig’s probation and sentenced him to three years in prison.

“It appears to me you have a very serious problem with anger,” Pyle told Ludwig before the sentence.  Continue reading...