In this, Jan. 13, 2020 file photo, Rev. David Kennedy stands outside the Echo Theater holding a photo of his great uncle’s lynching, in Laurens, S.C. Kennedy has fought for civil rights in South Carolina for decades. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan, File) By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press LAURENS. S.C. (AP) — Regan Freeman had spent […]
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South Carolina’s First Black Chief Justice Dead at 86
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ernest Finney, South Carolina’s first African-American chief justice, died Sunday. He was 86. South Carolina Deputy Supreme Court Clerk Brenda Shealy confirmed Finney’s death but did not have details on how he died. Finney was suffering from dementia in May 2016 when he drove away from his home, prompting a frantic […]
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Court Shares Jailhouse Videos of Charleston Church Killer –How Nutty is He Really?
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A week before the sentencing phase of his trial, Dylann Roof got a visit in jail from his mother, who pleaded with him to reconsider his decision to act as his own lawyer in the fatal shootings of nine Black worshippers at a South Carolina church. But Roof was more concerned […]
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Dylann Roof’s Friend Gets over 2 Years for Hindering FBI
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 Charleston church. Meek said he thought his friend was all talk until a week later, when news broke of […]
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Dylann Roof’s Friend is Going to Prison for Lying to FBI
The only person with whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plan to massacre worshippers at a historically black South Carolina church is about to find out how long he will go to prison for lying to the FBI. Joey Meek is set to be sentenced Tuesday in Charleston by the same federal judge who presided […]
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S.C. Emanuel AME Church Shootings Leave Holes in the Fabric of Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The bullet holes in the fellowship hall at Emanuel AME church have been patched, but the holes in the fabric of life in Charleston remain. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton is absent from Goose Creek High School, her exhortations still ringing in the ears of girls who ran track for her. At the library, […]
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Federal Prosecutors Won’t Charge S.C. Deputy Who Tossed Student
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors won’t charge a deputy who was recorded tossing a student out of a desk at a South Carolina high school after she refused to give up her cellphone. In this Monday, Oct, 26, 2015 photo made from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student, Senior Deputy Ben Fields tries […]
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Dylann Roof Laughed During Charleston Church Slaying Confession to FBI
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated Black people and thought they were criminals. He thought about attacking drug dealers, but they might shoot back. So, he told the FBI, he picked a historic Black church in Charleston he had learned about online. In this June18, 2016 file photo, […]
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Judge Orders Competency Exam for Dylann Roof, Delays Charleston Church Shooting Trial
A judge announced Tuesday that he has ordered another competency exam for a White man charged with killing nine Black parishioners at a Charleston church one day after halting jury selection because of a motion from defense attorneys. The exam for Dylann Roof is underway and should be finished by next week. Federal Judge Richard […]
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2nd Night of Violent Protests over Charlotte Police Shooting
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Violent protesters rampaged through parts of downtown Charlotte as anger continued to build over the deadly police shooting of a Black man and the wildly different stories about what happened from authorities and the victim’s family and neighbors. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency Wednesday night in […]
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Driver, 10-Year-Old Child Among 4 Dead in NC Bus Crash Carrying Clinton College Students
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The bus driver and a 10-year-old child are among the four people killed after a bus carrying a South Carolina junior college football team to its first game ever crashed on a North Carolina highway, state troopers said. The front left tire on the bus blew out around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, sending it […]
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Light Penalty Assessed SC Cop in Killing of Black Great Grandfather Astonishes Black Community
In this Feb. 18, 2013 photo released by the Columbia County (Ga.) Sheriff`s Office, Earnest Satterwhite poses for a booking bug. Satterwhite spent some of the last moments of his life fleeing from officers that wanted to pull the 68-year-old man over on suspicion of drunken driving. Seconds after he pulled into a driveway off […]