Growing up, Mondaire Jones saw few people just like him. He credits role models and political and cultural changes for giving him the courage to make history.
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Vivian Anderson was living in Brooklyn, New York, in 2015 when a friend told her about video clips of a white police officer dragging a young Black girl from her desk and body-slamming her to the ground. Videos showed then-Spring Valley High School police officer Ben Fields in Columbia, South Carolina, flipping over the 16-year-old girl, identified as Shakara, toppling her desk and dragging her across the floor.
Like many Black women who have become overwhelmed by the traumatic experience of seeing videos of police violence against other Black women and girls, Anderson had braced herself to watch the videos.
HUNTINGTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday selected Josh Booth, a Kenova native and political newcomer, to fill the vacant House of Delegates District 19 seat left by
Check your pockets: $25,000 a year for life lottery prize sold in Columbia Noah Feit, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Dec. 29 Someone won a life-changing prize on Christmas Eve after buying a lottery ticket at a Columbia convenience store, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery.
Now the ticket holder must choose between $25,000 a month for life, or a one-time payout of a six-digit jackpot.
Lottery officials said the winning Lucky for Life ticket was purchased at Jimmy s Mart on Two Notch Road. That s near Spring Valley High School.
The winning numbers 2, 15, 40, 44, and 47 were drawn Dec. 24.
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Yousuf Hasan, who was sentenced Wednesday, apologized in court and said he thinks of Harrell every day. Author: Associated Press Updated: 11:09 PM EST December 16, 2020
ORLANDO, Fla. A 26-year-old man who fatally struck a Columbia native and University of Central Florida student London Harrell as she walked near campus has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison.