gradey brown made the announcement today on the senate floor. he is among 8 lawmakers not seeking another term. all house and senate seats are up for election this year. candidates must file with the state election commission between march 16 and march 30. primaries will be held june 14. >>> tonight a richland county deputy fired and charged with misconduct in office. kaleb broome. deputies say last tuesday he responded to a home to assist a dispute. while he was at the call he defaced a poster of africa in the victim's garage with a racial slur and then stole a double sided piece of tape from the victim. charged him today. >> he took the word nigeria and circled it and made a racial slur. >> the use of a racial slur is against our policy. he is charged with a criminal offense which is defacing that poster and for stealing something. >> kaleb broome has been with the sheriff's department since october 2014. the charge of misconduct carries a year in prison. >>> the incident report of the felony dui arrest of richland county councilman kelvin was

gradey brown announced today he will not seek another term. the 71-year-old democrat served in the house since 1985. he serves on the county counsel from 1973 to 1980. he is among 8 legislator not seeking another turn. all house and senate seats are up for election this year. >>> it is against the law toddling on sunday or challenge to someone to a -- to dance on sunday or challenge someone to a sward fight in south carolina? laws. one makes adultery or couple anyone who operates a dancing hall between midnight saturday and edmidnight sunday could spend 30 days in jail. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> currently we have partly cloudy skies. our temperatures are 75 degrees. winds are from the south, southwest at 15 miles per hour. tonight the clouds will be increasing and late tonight we do expect to see rain coming through the area. a low temperature of 52 degrees. a cold front comes through. pushes the clouds out by the morning and tomorrow it will be sunny and cooler with a high of 62 degree

. >> sheriff's gradey judd sounding off on 5-year-old school bruce dave grail brown and 57-year-old bust attendant gwen simmons, charged with child neglect after investigators say they left a 13-year-old child with special needs on a bus not once but twice in seven days. >> he rides to, lake wells on the bus. he goes to sleep. he wakes up. he looks around. no students, no driver, no attendant. two times. in one week he has been left on this bus. >> investigators say brown and simmons failed to do their jobs and the bus has a device to prevent children from being left behind. >> they both admitted, yes, we didn't check the bus like we were supposed to, like we were yes, the alarm system was turned off, all the protocols were in place. all the equipment was in place. and all the equipment was functioning. what wasn't functioning, the brains of the driver and the attendant. it's like, are you kidding me? >> we're told the 13-year-old special needs child is developmentally the age of an eight or nine-year-old. between both trips i canning too the child 6-miles to get home. he took ride from