During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott confirmed that Deputy Ben Fields – the officer who’s come under fire for violently taking down a teenage girl ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not ...

Ben Fields, the white Richland County Sheriff’s Office deputy captured in shocking video taking down a black high school senior, is a behemoth conditioning coach that can squat a whopping 940 ...

Deputy Ben Fields of the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, was fired on Wednesday for using excessive force on a teenage girl at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. In his press ...

In a suit filed Jan. 31, Sabrina Adkins alleged that when she couldn't afford to pay for home detention, Deputy Ben Fields told her she would receive "favorable treatment for sexual favors ...

Ben Fields is charged with two counts of third-degree rape, two counts of third-degree sodomy, three counts of tampering with a prisoner monitoring device and second-degree perjury. The charges ...

Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields was already suspended after videos of him flipping and tossing a black female student across a classroom went viral online. Fields was told of his firing ...

On that day, Fields' attorney promised that the deputy would one day address the ... School Resource Officer Ben Fields was terminated from the Richland County Sheriff's Department." ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said an internal investigation over the Monday incident at Spring Valley High School in Columbia focused on whether Senior Deputy Ben Fields had violated the ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced Wednesday that he fired Senior Deputy Ben Fields over the deputy's actions against a student at a local high school earlier this week. In a video that ...

The South Carolina Sheriff's Deputy captured on video forcefully removing a student from class could lose his job as the Richland County Sheriff is expected to announce whether Ben Fields will ...