CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — During a night of vodka, cocaine, marijuana and video games, Joey Meek listened as a childhood buddy confided that he hated blacks so much he was going to kill them at a South Carolina church. Meek said he thought his friend was all talk until a week later, when news broke … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Andy Savage keeps in his law office a sealed plastic bag with the blood-splattered clothes that Felicia Sanders wore sheltering her granddaughter from a fusillade of bullets that killed nine black parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Down the hall, his colleagues met recently with another client, Michael Slager, the white … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — From the iconic opera “Porgy and Bess” to remembering the victims of the Mother Emanuel AME Church tragedy, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA resonates with the spirit of the city it has called home for four decades. The 40ths season of the renowned festival has set a box … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic left a decades-long trail of broken marriages, scant social connections and a reputation for religious zealotry that didn’t match his yen for gambling and extramarital affairs. New court documents and interviews reveal Robert Lewis Dear as an occasionally … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Five months after nine black parishioners were gunned down at a Charleston church, volunteers continue the laborious job of sorting and cataloguing thousands of letters, mementos and gifts that poured in after the tragedy. For weeks following the June 17 shootings, the sidewalk in front of Emanuel AME Church was a … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for a South Carolina police officer charged with murder after he was captured on video shooting a fleeing man in the back is trying to change the public’s perception of what happened. During a bail hearing Thursday, defense attorney Andy Savage said small amounts of cocaine were found in … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Thirty-year veteran teacher Twila Smith had scarcely started a new school year when a 14-year-old freshman entered her world studies class and drew a gun Tuesday. “I knew if I lost my composure, this is going to end badly,” Smith told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. “He told me … Continue reading
A black drinking buddy of the white man accused of killing nine people at a Charleston church says the suspect told him a week earlier that he planned to shoot up a college campus in the city. The friend, Christon Scriven, told The Associated Press on Friday that he thought Dylann Roof’s statements were just … Continue reading
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A statement from the last man to talk to Walter Scott, more details about the arrest of the officer charged and action by South Carolina lawmakers are the latest developments in the case of a black man shot and killed by a white North Charleston Police officer. The April 4 slaying … Continue reading
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man who set sail from South Carolina two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina, and he said he got by rationing his water and energy and praying for help. “Every day I was like, ‘Please God, … Continue reading
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