Randy Akers News Today

The 30th Annual South Carolina Humanities Festival kicked off with the opening of an art exhibition at the Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center on Thursday night.

Periodically, over the course of the 30 years that I have been writing this column, I am asked about the title “Arts and Humanities.” What’s the difference between the two?

Orangeburg County will host its first South Carolina Humanities Festival from Thursday, Oct. 19 to Sunday, Oct. 22.

More than 40 percent of Horry County’s bridges are either in fair or poor shape. But Idalia’s low winds shouldn’t affect their conditions.

More than 40 percent of Horry County’s bridges are either in fair or poor shape. But Idalia’s low winds shouldn’t affect their conditions.

A man known as "Radical Randy" to members of his community faces more than a dozen charges related to child sex abuse. Hillsborough deputies say there may be more.

Known as ‘Radical Randy’,’ he is already facing multiple charges of child sex abuse.

Deputies said they've arrested a sexual predator in Hernando County after a report of sexual battery involving two minors.

A man known as ‘Radical Randy’ has been arrested after detectives say two different children said they were sexually battered by him. 

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