Javon Harris

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Bristow Marchant |Alexa Jurado |Hannah Wade |Javon Harris |Andrew Dys

Information is still coming out about the fatal bus crash involving a Lexington 2 school bus in Chester County on Thursday. One person, 13-year-old student Jose Maria Gonzales Linares, was killed and 21 people were transported to hospitals after a tire blew out on the 2021 Blue Bird school bus carrying students from Pine Ridge Middle School home from a field trip to the Charlotte area. The bus overturned on Interstate 77 and closed traffic in both directions for a time Thursday afternoon.

Mar 7, 2025 | 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.

Feb 26, 2025 | 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.