If the U.S. government decides to pursue the death penalty, Dylann Roof would become the first person in South Carolina to be considered for it as the result of being prosecuted for a hate crime.
A York County man faces three years in prison after police and prosecutors said he beat up his girlfriend, threatened to kill her and also beat up her young son in January.
Midlands' farmers are holding their breath for any rain to help out their peanut and cotton crops, after the heat and drought takes a destructive toll on their corn crops.