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The South Carolina Department of Education has announced that every public K-12 school in the state will be digitally mapped by Critical Response Group to help give first responders essential information needed to quickly and efficiently navigate campus buildings during emergency events.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative youth activist and CEO of Turning Point USA, has been fatally shot during an event at a college in Utah. President Donald Trump has said Kirk was killed in the shooting Wednesday. Videos posted to social media show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans, “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.”

A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison. A lawyer for now-21-year-old Jesse Osborne says that would give Osborne some hope of freedom in 50s or 60s and a reason to rehabilitate himself. But five witnesses on Monday asked the judge to keep the life sentence for the 2016 shooting at Townville Elementary.