Cynthia Graham Hurd CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A Charleston County library is being dedicated in honor of one of the Charleston church shooting victims. Library officials say a dedication ceremony Tuesday is one of a number of events being held to mark the naming of the St. Andrews branch of the library in honor of Cynthia Graham Hurd. Tuesday would…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The state prosecutor trying accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof says trying Roof in federal court in November for hate crimes and other charges interferes with both his scheduled January state trial and the victims’ and jurors’ holidays. Roof’s federal trial stemming from the Emanuel AME shootings is set for Nov. 7 and attorneys say it…
Charleston, SC (WOLO)– Friday Charleston and South Carolina pause to remember the Emanuel Nine. The One year anniversary of the Charleston Church shooting is being marked by numerous events. At the Memorial Service in Charleston a presidential aide read a message from the president and the first lady to a crowd at the Charleston TD Arena. President Barack Obama says…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– A memorial service Friday at the College of Charleston TD Arena featured prayer, song, Governor Nikki Haley, and a message from President Barack Obama. A presidential aide read a message from the president and the first lady. President Barack Obama said that the nation is deeply moved by what he calls “the boundless love and unshakable resilience”…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The husband of a victim of the Charleston church shootings is urging people to focus on God as the anniversary of the tragedy approaches. About 150 people attended a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church Wednesday, gathering upstairs from the room where nine people were killed during a similar Bible study a year ago. The Rev….
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Police say streets will be closed and security tight during this week’s events marking the anniversary of the shootings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Police announced Tuesday that roads will be closed during a memorial service Friday at the College of Charleston’s TD arena. There will also be street closings the next day during a…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ A jury, not a judge, will consider hate crimes and other federal charges against the man charged in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a South Carolina church. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled Monday that jurors will determine the guilt or innocence of Dylann Roof in his federal trial. If he’s convicted, a…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Just down from the Emanuel AME church where nine black parishioners studying their Bibles were gunned…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Attorneys for the man accused in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at a South Carolina church have filed notice that they want to forgo a jury trial and have the judge hearing the death-penalty case decide their client’s fate. The court document shows that attorneys for Dylann Roof filed the notice Thursday in U.S. District…
