Zak Koeske

Between February 2023 and April 2024, the Charter Institute at Erskine spent roughly five times more on out-of-state travel than either of South Carolina’s other statewide charter school districts, The State found.

The U.S. Department of Education dinged South Carolina last year for what it said was inadequate oversight of charter school sponsors and threatened the state with the loss of federal grants if they didn’t enhance oversight.

Just last month, Erskine College’s accreditor had placed the school on “probation for good cause” and denied reaffirmation of its accreditation.

The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 56-year-old Chris Abrams, of Sumter.

A 17-year-old student, who allegedly threatened on social media to “shoot the school up,” was arrested upon attempting to enter the building, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The child, who had been missing since Monday, was last seen alive in Hopkins, about 15 miles from where her body was found, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said

The U.S. Department of Education asserts that South Carolina’s monitoring of charter school sponsors is inadequate and has tied a demand for enhanced oversight to federal grant funding, emails show.

Columbia police are investigating the fatal collision in the 5400 block of Farrow Road.

“I’ve seen some extremely despicable and disgusting things in my career,” Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said in a statement, “but this is one of the worst.”

A 22-year-old man who had been sought in connection with a fatal shooting that took place earlier this year turned himself in, police said Friday.