Author: Associated Press

SC to hold Silent Witness domestic violence ceremony Tuesday

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s attorney general will again remember victims of domestic violence with a Statehouse memorial ceremony. Attorney General Alan Wilson will read the name of every person killed in the state in a domestic violence incident Tuesday while a bell tolls and a life-sized silhouette representing the victim is carried to the Statehouse steps. The Attorney…

Drought conditions worsening in parts of the South says U.S. Drought Monitor

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Weeks of dry, hot weather have plunged the Deep South further into a drought that’s affecting more than 11 million people and threatening crops across the region. An assessment released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor shows arid conditions worsening across a five-state area from Louisiana to South Carolina. Conditions are particularly bad in Alabama and…