GOP Arkansas candidate dismissed from school over KKK outfit

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican running for Arkansas State Senate said he’s made “mistakes” as a teenager after repeatedly denying his dismissal from a Mississippi high school for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume for Halloween. Charles Edward Beckham III initially denied that he was suspended and dismissed from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. But the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette obtained court records that show he was dismissed in October 2020 afte