CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Defense attorneys for Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old white man accused of killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, say they will allow state prosecutors to conduct their own mental evaluation of Roof. In a hearing last month, the solicitor’s office asked to conduct its own mental evaluation of Roof to rebut…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A friend of the man accused of gunning down nine black parishioners during a Bible study in a South Carolina church appeared before a judge to plead guilty to federal charges. Under a plea agreement signed by 21-year-old Joey Meek and federal prosecutors, Meek will plead guilty to lying to authorities and failing to report a…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The South Carolina Senate will unveil its official portrait of slain Sen. Clementa Pinckney next month. Sen. Gerald Malloy said Thursday that the Senate will hold a ceremony at 4 p.m. on May 25. A Senate committee picked artist Larry Lebby to paint Pinckeny’s picture. He has portraits of other South Carolina civil rights heroes like…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A friend of the white man accused of shooting nine black parishioners to death in Charleston last year is set to plead guilty. A plea agreement signed by federal prosecutors Monday shows that 21-year-old Joey Meek has agreed to plead guilty to lying to authorities and failure to report a crime. Authorities have said Meek failed…
Judge JC Nicholson /WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina judge on Wednesday delayed until next year the state death-penalty trial of Dylann Roof who is charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church in June of 2015. Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson granted a request by Roof’s defense lawyers who provided documents saying a doctor needed two…
Dylann Roof/WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Attorneys for Dylann Roof are asking a judge to delay his trial in state court so they can spend more time preparing his defense against a death sentence. Defense attorneys Ashley Pennington and William McGuire did not offer a new date for the trial to begin. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said her office…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Judge Richard Gergel told government prosecutors Tuesday that time is running out for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to decide whether the government will seek death for accused church shooter Dylann Roof. After hearing from federal prosecutors that Lynch had not yet decided after a bar meeting last term, Gergel warned that further delays could forfeit their…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — It has been a little more than six months since the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. The flag has since been placed at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia. This week proposals to change the location of the flag to a museum in Charleston are advancing in the…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A resolution declaring June 17 as Mother Emanuel Nine Day to honor the victims gunned down in a Charleston church last summer is advancing in the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the resolution Tuesday. It also encourages South Carolinians to reflect on race relations on the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Emanuel African…
COLUMBIA, SC (AP)– It’s a historic moment for Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. For the first time since the church was founded 200 years ago, a woman is now serving as the church’s pastor. Rev. Dr. Betty Deas Clark was welcomed by church members Sunday. She’s the first pastor named since Reverend Clementa Pinckney was shot…
