Author: The Carolinian

A South Carolina prosecutor is using a federal grant to expand a program that can let non-violent criminals who are veterans or addicted to drugs avoid prison. The 14th Judicial Circuit’s Multidisciplinary Court program is expanding from Beaufort County into Colleton and Jasper counties, Solicitor Duffie Stone said in a statement. The program allows veterans whose problems in military service like post traumatic stress disorder or people with drug problems

Dr. Erin H. Moore joins the CRSJ with a diverse range of experience in higher education, telecommunications, and nonprofits. The Shaw University Center for Racial and Social Justice (CRSJ) is elated to announce Dr. Erin H. Moore as the new Executive Director of the CRSJ. Dr. Moore joins Shaw with a diverse and impressive resume, including experience in telecommunications marketing, higher education, and nonprofit social justice.“The Shaw Community is proud

By DANI ROSS, Staff Writer Our world is in such chaos that even the earth itself is revolting. Across the globe citizens, who are tired of being marginalized and ignored, are rising up to fight against their governments. Circumstances have escalated to the point that everyday people are attacking armed battalions with reckless disregard for their lives, or anyone else’s. Assassinations, attempted assassinations, military coups, insurrections, these are all terms

By WILL GRAVES Simone Biles, of the United States, warms up prior to the artistic gymnastics balance beam final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Simone Biles found something a little more manageable than the weight of the world. Bronze. The American gymnastics superstar earned her seventh Olympic medal and second in Tokyo with a third-place finish in the balance beam

By MICHAEL CASEY A woman speaks on the phone in front of a sign in Haitian Creole during a news conference held by a coalition of housing justice groups to protest evictions, Friday, July 30, 2021, outside the Statehouse in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Evictions, which have mostly been on pause during the pandemic, are expected to ramp up on Monday after the expiration of a federal moratorium as housing

By DAVID RISING In this July 28, 2021, file photo, Buddhist monk wearing a face mask holds an oxygen tank for refill outside the Naing oxygen factory at the South Dagon industrial zone in Yangon, Myanmar. Supplies of medical oxygen are running low, and the government has put restrictions on its private sale in many places, saying it is trying to prevent hoarding. (AP Photo, File) With coronavirus deaths rising

A manufacturer of cages for inmate transport vans has agreed to pay $1 million to the family of a South Carolina mental health patient who drowned during 2018′s Hurricane Florence while trapped inside a sheriff’s department van outfitted by the company. A court on Monday approved the agreement between American Aluminum Accessories and Linda Green, the mother of drowning victim Nicolette Green, according to WBTW-TV. Deputies were driving Green, 43, and

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — State officials are for the second time in slightly more than a year trying to determine the source of potentially harmful compounds found in foam floating on a North Carolina creek. In both instances, the man-made chemicals found in the Gray’s Creek area don’t appear to be connected to the Chemours plant, which is in the same area and makes a similar compound, The Fayetteville Observer reported.  The

A North Carolina county’s emergency communications unit engaged in unlawful retaliation when it terminated a worker after she told supervisors that she had been sexually harassed while on the job, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to a department news releaseWednesday, Jennifer Riddle began working as a trainee for Wilson County Emergency Communications in 2017 and was soon sexually harassed by the agency’s assistant director.

By DR. JOY MARTINEZ, Staff Writer In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced fully vaccinated people didn’t need to wear masks in most settings, whether indoors or outdoors. This week, the agency recommended that fully vaccinated people begin wearing masks indoors again in places with high COVID-19 transmission rates. Nearly two-thirds of US counties have high or substantial transmission of COVID-19, according to most recent CDC