CMS spends nearly $10 million on body scanners for middle and high schools: Wednesday, July 13

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will spend nearly $10 million on body scanners in all its middle and high schools.

Most of the area high schools already have body scanners.

At a school board meeting, interim Superintendent Hugh Hattabaugh said middle schools will start seeing them in the first few months of the school year.

There were reports of long lines, learning curves, and skeptics’ when CMS first started its pilot program of body scanners.

"It's been taking some time obviously," Juan Torres Muñoz, the CMS Board Student Advisor said, "because it's a new technology."

Torres Munoz’s school was one of the first to have body scanners.

Hattabaugh said the technology will cost $9.9 million and include a four-year service subscription, and staff training.

"We will begin to finish out our seven large comprehensive high schools to expedite the scanning processes," Hattabaugh said. "And then we'll go to our middle 6-8, our specialty high schools, and lastly, our K-8 schools."

Board members asked for more.

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South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh is expected to be indicted by a grand jury on murder charges in last year's killings of his wife and son, NBC News reported Tuesday.

A possible indictment is the latest twist in the sprawling scandal that's engulfed Murdaugh's legal dynasty.

Three sources close to the investigation told NBC News the grand jury will indict Murdaugh later this week on double murder. The family has been notified of the indictment and so has Murdaugh. Part of the indictment is based on new evidence presented to the grand jury.

Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, Murdaugh's attorneys, issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying they were unaware of a decision to indict their client.

"We have not been advised by anyone associated with law enforcement or the Attorney General's office that Alex will be charged with murder. I am aware that SLED advised the family that they intend to seek murder indictments from a grand jury later this week. We won't have any comment until charges are actually brought against Alex," the statement reads.

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