Gubernatorial candidate Morgan Bruce Reeves. File photo.

Morgan Bruce Reeves, South Carolina’s gubernatorial nominee of the Green Party and United Citizens Party, faced nine charges in the ‘90s for fraudulent checks, driving while under suspension and with no insurance and assault, Robert Behre of the Charleston Post and Courier reported last week. Reeves tells Free Times the assault charge was for when he beat up six “punks” in self-defense and that the charge never stuck. “I want people to know I’m not a hypocrite like the rest of these people trying to hide what they’ve done wrong,” Reeves says. — Corey Hutchins

Six of the eight candidates who ran to replace disgraced Columbia City Councilman E.W. Cromartie (who is headed to federal prison for tax evasion) missed the deadline to file campaign finance reports and are being fined $100 each by the State Ethics Commission. As of Election Day, all the candidates but Antonio Williams had turned in the missing reports. — Eva Moore

Republican state treasurer-elect Curtis Loftis self-financed 89 percent of the $827,000 winning campaign he waged against incumbent Converse Chellis in the June 8 primary, according to financial disclosure reports. When he was campaigning, Loftis recalled a story to Free Times in which his father told him he’d be giving up a beach house in order to become the next state treasurer because of all the personal money he’d have to kick in. Loftis said he thought it would be worth it for a shot at exposing fraud, waste and abuse in state government. No Democratic candidate has filed to run in the November election. — Corey Hutchins

This week marks 50 years since Jesse Jackson and seven others risked arrest by refusing to leave a whites-only public library in Greenville on July 16, 1960. Police arrested Jackson and the others who later sued in federal court. The case led to the desegregation of Greenville’s public library. — Corey Hutchins

The State Law Enforcement Division has cleared Alvin Greene from any wrongdoing in how the unemployed Army veteran came up with the $10,440 filing fee in March to later get elected as the Democratic nominee for the Unites States Senate. “It was just like I said all along. It was money I saved from my United States military service — the United States Army in particular — for the last couple of years, period,” he told Free Times after the story broke the evening of July 9. Asked how he thought the media had characterized the issue up until then, he said “Period” once more before hanging up the phone. Greene is slated to hold his first public speaking engagement Sunday at a monthly meeting for the NAACP in his home town of Manning. — Corey Hutchins

Calls for Nikki Haley to stop hiding behind a loophole in transparency law that enables her to keep her State House emails hidden from the public reached a crescendo with an editorial in The State newspaper last week. Releasing them would, the column argued, be in line with her public views on transparency and accountability in state government, while keeping them hidden would, well, not. — Corey Hutchins

The Democratic nominee for state superintendent of education is running on a full tank of campaign cash while his Republican counterpart is sputtering on fumes when it comes to the money race. Upstate attorney Frank Holleman has about $220,000 cash on hand for the race for state schools chief and Newberry College president Mick Zais is $100,000 in the hole, according to campaign finance reports. The two will debate Thursday morning in Myrtle Beach. — Corey Hutchins

South Carolina’s capital city was left out of more than $10 million in grants to airports around the state announced by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. The airbound dinero will be landing at airports in Anderson, Charleston, Chesterfield, Darlington, Greenville, Horry, Laurens, Lexington and Sumter counties, though. — Corey Hutchins