...Hilton Head might be razed for violating neighborhood land-use covenants dating back to the 1950s. Retired Judge Thomas Kemmerlin Jr., acting as a special referee in the Beaufort County Court of Common Pleas, recently ruled that a beachfront...

...nearly three years in the Beaufort County Detention Center for contempt of court. Unless she finally promises Judge Thomas Kemmerlin that she won't return to her old land, she might pass her final years in the small cell that has become her home...

...pants she wore in 1999 when she was taken to jail on Circuit Judge Thomas Kemmerlin's order. Ms. Peters had long argued that Judge Kemmerlin had...for a belief? I don't know anyone but Mary Peters ... and Thomas Kemmerlin."

...can't fight anymore. I'm too old and too laughable." Ms. Peters was locked up after refusing to tell Judge Thomas Kemmerlin that she would stay away from land that he ordered turned over to someone else. He says she has always had the key...

...state, but environmental officials are confident the state Supreme Court will overturn the decision. Circuit Judge Thomas Kemmerlin's ruling limits the ability of the state Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management to regulate development...

...parts of Beaufort's video poker law, saying they are in conflict with state regulations. Master-in-Equity Thomas Kemmerlin ruled this month that the city's ordinance may not supersede state laws regarding a video poker site's location...

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Judge Thomas Kemmerlin Jr. slouches forward in a tall blue executive chair, almost hidden behind a messy pile of file folders clustered on a table in...