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A South Carolina trooper was shot in the face over the weekend after stopping a vehicle for speeding. The Highway Patrol says the trooper's condition is not life threatening and he is recovering in a hospital. Officers say the driver, 37-year-old Derrick Gathers, eventually crashed while being chased by a second trooper and other officers. Authorities say Gathers was taken to jail after being treated at a hospital. He is charged with two counts of attempted murder.

A South Carolina sheriff is pushing back on a historically Black university president's statement accusing law enforcement officers of racial profiling in a recent bus stop. Shaw University President Paulette Dillard wrote she was "outraged" after law enforcement officers in Spartanburg County on Oct. 5 stopped a contract bus transporting students from the HBCU in Raleigh, North Carolina to a conference in Atlanta. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright emphasized at a Monday morning press conference that police officers stopped the unmarked, "Greyhound-like bus" with tinted windows because it had been swerving. "This case right here has absolutely nothing to do with racism," Wright said.