SHAW AFB, South Carolina, May 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Creech Air Force Base (432nd Air Expeditionary Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Kylie Barrow, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs The 25th Attack Group partnered with the 20th Fighter Wing to host the installation's fifth annual Women's Symposium at the Shaw-Sumter Farm Welcome Center on April 17 and 18, 2024. This year's theme for the two-day event was "Women in Leadership: Past, Present, and Future." L  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on April 30, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * In February 2024, quits rates (the number of quits during the entire month as a percentage of total employment) were above 3.0 percent in 6 states: Alaska (3.9 percent), Montana (3.6 percent), Idaho (3.2 percent), and Florida, South Carolina, and Wyoming (3.1 percent each). Among these states, the number of quits ranged from 9,000   more

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina, May 2 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration issued the following news release: A major East Coast ship repair and servicing company's failure to make safety its #1 priority, a promise made on its website, has led to another employee fatality -- the fourth in five years -- a U.S. Department of Labor workplace safety inspection has found. In November 2023, the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration determ  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Chief of Staff of the Army announces the following officer assignments: Maj. Gen. Jason E. Kelly, commanding general, U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, to deputy commanding general for Civil Works and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. Maj. Gen. John V. Meyer III, commanding general, 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, Fort Rile  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Together with state and federal partners, U.S. Attorney Adair F. Boroughs announced the formation of the Palmetto Health Care Fraud Task Force (PHCF Task Force), which has been created as a dedicated task force to combat health care fraud and recover taxpayer money in the District of South Carolina through criminal and civil actions. Other agencies that have j  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Omar Sexton, 43, of Charleston, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Evidence presented to the court showed that a K-9 trained to detect narcotics alerted on a package at a mail shipping center in Louisville, Kentucky. Law enforcement obtained a search warrant for the p  more