SC senator: Elementary school fight was just small scuffle

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina state senator who represents the area where a fifth grader died after an elementary school fight last week says it was only a small scuffle.
Sen. Margie Bright Matthews said on the Senate floor Tuesday that Raniya Wright was not kicked or attacked by several students. The Democrat says the 10-year-old didn’t bang her head in the March 25 fight at Forest Hills Elementary School in Walterboro.
Bright Matthews says Raniya kept arguing with the othe