Author: Associated Press

AP: Law firm: Attorney whose wife, son were killed took money

AP: Murdaugh's law firm said he took money from the business. PMPED law firm says Murdaugh is no longer associated with them.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their home three months ago and was injured when a bullet grazed his head as he changed a tire over the weekend says he is going to rehab. Alex Murdaugh’s statement Monday also said he “made a…

Searches, sorrow in wake of Ida’s destructive, deadly floods

By Mike Catalini, Wayne Perry and Michael R. Sisak

Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and drew up lists of the missing as the death toll rose to 49 on Friday in the catastrophic flooding set off across the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. The disaster underscored with heartbreaking clarity how vulnerable the U.S. is to the extreme weather that climate change is bringing.