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During a meeting on April 23, the district’s Board of Trustees approved providing legal representation for the school district and its employees named in the lawsuit.
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An off-duty police officer in South Carolina has been charged with murder after state investigators say he shot a man trying to drive away after the two fought in a fast food restaurant parking lot.
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A suspect in the shooting death of a New Mexico state police officer was captured Sunday by law enforcement officers in the Albuquerque area based on a tip from a gas station clerk, authorities said.
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Academy Sports is paying $2.5 million to families of a serial killer's victims for illegal gun salesA sporting goods chain is paying the families of three people shot to death by a South Carolina serial killer $2.5 million after one of its stores sold guns to a straw buyer who gave them to the killer, a felon who couldn't legally buy the weapons.
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A 79-year-old South Carolina man avoided a possible death sentence Thursday by agreeing to plead guilty to ambushing police officers coming to his home, killing two of the officers and wounding five others.
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A daylong manhunt has ended on Johns Island with the deaths of the suspect and a K-9 with the State Law Enforcment Division. Authorities say Ernest Burbage lll shot the K-9 before brandishing a weapon and being killed by police.
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A 14-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting over a yearslong squabble that left three teenagers dead and another injured in the capital city of South Carolina, officials said Tuesday.
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Authorities say two people killed three teenagers and wounded a fourth in South Carolina's capital city in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary. Sunday afternoon's shooting happened at an abandoned house where the four teenagers were hanging out.
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A USC student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street in Columbia early Saturday, police said.
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Authorities say about a half-dozen deputies shot and killed a man who fired at them multiple times during a standoff at a South Carolina home. Richland County deputies say the standoff started about 9 a.m. Monday when a utility worker came to the man's property to do work and he forced her to leave at gunpoint. Investigators say the man then shot at two deputies who were sent to the home in northeast Richland County. Authorities say after refusing to talk to them for over an hour, the man came outside and started shooting at deputies.