(AP) – A man who says members of a secretive North Carolina religious group held him down and beat him wants the prosecutor kicked o his case, accusing the district attorney of siding with a church that dozens of former congregants have said abused them.

ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. (AP) — The former court clerk in South Carolina who helped out with the murder trial of attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges for showing sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it in court.

State delays push data center developers to private land

Months of delays in approving a commercial lease on state school land for a data center near Lawton led to the developer canceling its lease, causing the state to lose out on lease payments that benefit public education.

In 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th U.S. state.

Clinton Regional Hospital recently obtained status as a Rural Emergency Hospital, a move that has been widely discussed over the past few months.

Nance Elementary School teacher Julie Adkinson, left, works on a lesson with her student Jordin Perez and his mother Carrie Perez during the Clinton Public Schools Board of Education’s monthly meeting Monday evening. CDN | Micah Ashcraft

Progress, both already achieved and yet to come, was the reoccurring theme of the Clinton Public Schools Board of Education’s monthly meeting Monday, with Nance Elementary speaking on support in special needs students’ achievement as well as talks on goals for Clinton Public Schools to grow academically.

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