Meg Kinnard, Author at Valley News

Republican debates canceled after Haley says she’ll only participate if Trump does, too

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressJanuary 17, 2024

Another Republican presidential debate has been canceled after Nikki Haley’s refusal to participate in any forum that doesn’t also include former President Donald Trump, meaning that for the first time in years there will not be an on-the-ground…

Haley says she won’t debate DeSantis in NH unless Trump participates

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressJanuary 16, 2024

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld speaks to reporters during a visit to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Republican leaders in Iowa and New Hampshire are vowing to hold their presidential primary contests as scheduled, even as party leaders in other key states cancel their 2020 primaries to help give President Donald Trump a smooth path to re-election. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

New Hampshire’s 2020 GOP primary is still on

by Steve Peoples Associated Press, Hunter Woodall Associated Press, and Meg Kinnard Associated PressSeptember 10, 2019

FILE - In this July 21, 2018, file photo, Republican politician Mark Sanford speaks at OZY Fest in Central Park in New York. Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, has decided to launch a longshot Republican challenge to President Donald Trump. “I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in,’’ Sanford said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday,’’ Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Ex-S.C. Gov. Sanford adds name to GOP long shots against Trump

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressSeptember 8, 2019

Residents of the Boardwalk RV Park discuss the path of a possible waterspout or tornado, generated by Hurricane Dorian, struck the area, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Emerald Isle, N.C. (Julia Wall/The News & Observer via AP)

Dorian grazes Carolina coast

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressSeptember 5, 2019

Reality Winner arrives at a courthouse in Augusta, Ga., Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, after she pleaded guilty in June to copying a classified U.S. report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)

NSA Leaker Is Sentenced To Five Years of Secret Report on Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressAugust 23, 2018

These undated photos provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows, from top row from left, Corey Scott, Eddie Casey Gaskins, Raymond Angelo Scott and Damonte Rivera; bottom row from left, Michael Milledge, Cornelius McClary and Joshua Jenkins. The seven inmates were killed, and at least 17 prisoners wounded, in a riot at the Lee Correctional Institution on early Monday, April 16, 2018, in Bishopville, S.C. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)

7 Inmates Killed in S.C. Prison Riot

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressApril 16, 2018

An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, SC. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jeff Blake)

Amtrak Crash Leaves 2 Dead

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressFebruary 4, 2018

The parents of Walter Scott, Walter Scott Sr. and Judy Scott, leave the courthouse after former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2015 shooting death of their son, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP)

White Ex-Cop Gets 20 Years For Slaying

by Meg Kinnard Associated PressDecember 7, 2017

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, right, walks from the Charleston County Courthouse under the protection of the Charleston County Sheriff's Department after a mistrial was declared for his trial in Charleston, S.C. Slager is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed during a 2015 traffic stop. A copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday, May 2, 2017, also shows state prosecutors are dropping a pending murder charge against Slager. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

Ex-Officer Pleads Guilty in Man’s Slaying in S.C.

by Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, and Meg Kinnard Associated PressMay 2, 2017