An Orange County teacher who allegedly fathered a child with a teenage student decades ago has been placed on administrative leave as police investigate allegations of sexual abuse against him, authorities said. Reiko Wright, a former student at Loara High School, took to social media on Monday to share her allegations against Steve Graves — who she said abused and …
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sheri Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer, won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina’s 3rd District on Tuesday, defeating a challenger who called himself former President Donald Trump’s pastor. This was Biggs’ first run for political office and if she wins in November, she will be only the second Republican …
— There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal desegregation orders, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s assistant attorney general said Thursday. Enforcing the open desegregation orders fit into a broader body of civil rights work launched in Mississippi that is examining jails, police departments and hate crimes in the state, according to Assistant Attorney General …
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested two teenage boys in connection with the death of a 15-year-old girl who overdosed in a restroom at her high school after buying pills possibly laced with fentanyl on campus, authorities said. Police served a search warrant around 8:30 a.m. as part of an investigation into the overdose death of a …