COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State courts will receive more than $7 million in grants to help them share information with law enforcement, U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., says.

The system will allow courts and police agencies to share warrants, protective orders and to dispose of cases quicker and easier, Hollings said.

The system also will help judges schedule cases and could alleviate some of the backlogs in some South Carolina judicial circuits, Hollings said.

Also on Thursday, Hollings announced a $1 million grant to a program that looks to stop violence in some of Spartanburg's high-crime neighborhoods.

Stop the Violence was founded in two Spartanburg neighborhoods in 1996. In the next four years, the neighborhoods saw a 50 percent drop in crime, Hollings said. The money should allow the program to expand.

Both grants are from the federal Justice Department.