Florence lumbers inland with epic rain [V] (update 4)
By Anna Mehler Paperny Tropical Storm Florence trudged inland on Saturday, flooding rivers and towns, toppling trees and cutting power to nearly a million homes and...
South Carolina
S.C. man who kept woman chained in container killed seven
South Carolina authorities said on Saturday that Todd Kohlepp, the suspect they arrested before discovering the body of a man whose girlfriend was found chained...
Hurricane Matthew kills almost 900 in Haiti before hitting US
By Joseph Guyler Delva and Scott Malone Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Haiti earlier this week...
Teen kills father, opens fire on South Carolina schoolyard -police
A 14-year-old South Carolina boy shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school playground where he wounded two children and a teacher...
Clown sightings spook South Carolina, perplex police
By Frank McGurty and Chris Prentice One clown showed up on a roadside in a rain poncho, another waved money at children near woods. The...
Hear! Hear! Exquisite fossils preserve ear of prehistoric whale
Fossils unearthed in a South Carolina drainage ditch are providing insight into the development of ultrasonic hearing in prehistoric whales, a trait closely linked to...
U.S. Republican presidential race erupts into four-way battle
The Republican race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination erupted into a four-candidate crossfire on Wednesday over who has the proper experience and is the...
Jeb Bush gets a brotherly hand from George W in S. Carolina
By Steve Holland Former President George W. Bush came to the aid of his brother Jeb Bush‘s Republican presidential campaign in South Carolina on Monday...
Fifteen dead as South Carolina gripped by historic flooding
By Colleen Jenkins South Carolina grappled with the damage wrought by record rainfall, as the death toll from widespread flooding rose to 15 on Tuesday...
Ku Klux Klan gets green light for pro-Confederate flag rally in South Carolina
The white supremacist Ku Klux Klan has received approval from South Carolina officials to hold a pro-Confederate flag rally at the state capitol, a newspaper...
Suspect in killing of nine at black US church arrested (Update 10)
By Harriet McLeod A 21-year-old white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday,...
Rally planned after white South Carolina police officer kills black man (Updated)
By Harriet McLeod Activists planned to protest in South Carolina on Wednesday after a white police officer was caught on video fatally shooting a 50-year-old...