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DORCHESTER, S.C. (WCBD) – Parents of a student at St. George Middle School in Dorchester District 4 (DD4) are expressing concerns about a recent homework assignment they feel was inappropriate.

Israeli archaeologists say they have found two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. The ...

It is highly unlikely that a person with a law degree and a former state attorney general actually thinks that law didn't exist on Earth before the estimated lifetime of Moses (1391-1271 BCE). He ...