Javon Harris

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ted Clifford |Javon Harris

Just after 6:05 p.m. inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, the silence of the state’s death chamber was broken by the crack of three unseen rifles and blood spurted from the chest of Brad Sigmon. He is the first person in South Carolina to have been executed by firing squad and only the fourth in the entire country to have been executed by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Noah Feit |Javon Harris |Hannah Wade

Both the principal and a teacher at a charter school in Richland County were arrested Wednesday morning, according to the Irmo Police Department. Both 33-year-old Columbia resident Sulaymaan Benoit and 41-year-old Sumter resident Tina Shaw worked at Green Charter School of the Midlands where students were victims of sex crimes, police said in a news release.

Jun 24, 2024 | thetandd.com | Paul Osmundson |Javon Harris

A Columbia elementary school principal died Thursday afternoon in a car wreck on Heyward Brockington Road in northern Richland County, authorities said. Jason M. Koepke, 41, was the principal of Forest Heights Elementary School, Richland District One Superintendent Craig Witherspoon said. Local news has never been this personal. Free to download. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access.