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Daniel Opdyke, a former Rankin County sheriff's deputy, looks to his family after being sentenced Wednesday in Brandon, Miss., on state charges stemming from the 2023 racially motivated torture of two Black men. (Associated Press)
Apr 11, 2024

Court sentences former lawmen in torture case

BRANDON, Miss. — Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges […]

Aug 17, 2023

Midlands Technical College president to retire

Ronald L. Rhames, the president of Midlands Technical College in Columbia, has announced plans for retirement. Rhames, who started his career with the college in 1990, is expected to retire […]

Jul 20, 2023

Coates attends school board meeting to back teacher

IRMO, S.C. (AP) — Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book on racism and growing up Black in America in her advanced English class. Mary Wood has taught the lesson before at Chapin High School. But in February, a few of her students wrote a school board member that the unit made them feel "u[...]


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