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 suit in ...

The reputation of Murphy Village’s residents reaches far beyond the Palmetto State. The North Augusta community, just past Interstate 20 in Aiken County, is home to one of the largest communities of ...

Two girls missing from the Murphy Village area of North Augusta are in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, said Capt. Eric Abdullah with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office.

Three people, including an associate of the S.C. Irish Travelers, were arraigned Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Columbia on charges they fraudulently obtained life insurance policies on an elderly ...

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 ...

Federal law officers in May quietly dropped murder-related charges against a North Augusta insurance agent as part of an investigation involving South Carolina’s Irish Travelers. The dropped murder ...

A doctor who illegally provided prescriptions for opioids that then were sold throughout the Irish Travelers’ Murphy Village area in Aiken County also pressured female patients to have sex with him.

A sweeping 45-count federal indictment against 22 residents of the North Augusta area, including more than a dozen of the Irish Travelers’ group, was issued Tuesday by a federal grand jury. The ...

Murphy Village, in western South Carolina near Aiken and North Augusta, is an Irish Traveler community where May, the FBI and other law agencies have been conducting a five-year investigation into a ...

COLUMBIA — Three people, including an associate of the S.C. Irish Travelers, were arraigned Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Columbia on charges they fraudulently obtained life insurance policies on ...