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South Carolina Republican lawmaker RJ May has been indicted on 10 counts of distributing child sex abuse material. May, 38, will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Columbia at 10:30 a.m. Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges. House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, is expected to suspend May from office shortly, as required by law.

The new administration's policies in Washington are having an effect on statehouses across the country, including here. Our next guest stays busier than ever these days lobbying through these policies. Mike Switzer interviews Kyle Michel, an attorney in Columbia, SC.

South Carolina Republican lawmaker RJ May was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Lexington County Detention Center, jail records show. May, first elected to represent part of Lexington County in 2020, is a co-founder of the hardline House Freedom Caucus. Booking information for May, 38, did not list charges or a booking photo but did list a hold for "DUSM," or Deputy U.S. Marshal.

The effort to protect and contain the nearly 3 million tons of toxic sludge held back by the dam at Lake Conestee is almost complete. At the end of this week, engineers will be mostly done with the new concrete structure that sits 50 feet in front of the 130-plus-year-old stone dam that spans the Reedy River at Conestee Nature Preserve in Greenville County.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn't plan to stop the execution because they didn't have evidence there were problems with the state's lethal injection process.

If you are nearing retirement or enrolled in Medicare, you may think that your healthcare costs will stabilize. But our next guest says that some retirees may be caught off guard by an unexpected charge showing up on their Medicare bill called IRMAA, which stands for Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount.