There were 25 additional residents of Murphy Village in North Augusta who entered into guilty plea agreements on Aug. 22 in connection with federal charges of conspiracy and fraud. These 25 guilty ...

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a doctor to 4 1/2 years in prison for illegally prescribing a highly addictive drug to an Irish Traveler in the Murphy Village community of Aiken County. Evidence in ...

Sep. 13—Five Irish travelers in North Augusta's Murphy Village have been sued over an insurance fraud scheme that led to more than 50 guilty pleas in 2017. American National Insurance Company filed ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. The 22 North Augusta area defendants charged in ...

A prosecutor heatedly told a federal judge Tuesday that South Carolina’s Irish Travelers — with their white-collar crimes that bilk insurance companies and government agencies — operate in a culture ...

Five S.C. Irish Travelers — including two grandmothers — were sentenced Thursday to federal prison for their part in long-lasting fraud schemes. “This is a criminal enterprise like South Carolina has ...

The Irish Travelers of North Augusta, S.C., stopped their pickups in the middle of the road last week to commiserate over the “outing” of Madelyne Gorman Toogood. The woman caught thrashing her 4-year ...