South Carolina shooting

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — A suspect in the shooting and wounding of a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy was barricaded in a house in North Charleston on Friday morning, a police spokesman said. A female Berkeley County sheriff’s deputy was wounded early Friday after she stepped out of her vehicle in Goose Creek. Capt. Mike […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The parents of a 19-year-old man killed by a Seneca police officer during a drug sting have sued the city, the police chief and the officer, saying their son’s civil rights were violated. The lawsuit includes a detailed account of what happened from the family’s perspective. The lawsuit says the officer, […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The site of a massacre a week ago, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is being reclaimed by parishioners who are pledging to remember the loved ones they lost in a shooting rampage while carrying on the work of the beloved pastor who was slain beside them. Only hours before the […]

UPDATE as of 11:42a.m. CST: Dylan Storm Roof, the 21-year-old man who police say walked into a South Carolina church and fatally shot nine people as…

  I was prepared to write about Brian Williams not returning to the anchor chair at NBC Nightly news, which means Lester Holt is the first African American solo anchor of an evening broadcast network news program, ever. That’s quite an accomplishment. Congratulations to Lester. It is well deserved. Let’s wish him the very best. […]