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June 28, 2016

Prosecutor asks that state be allow to try Dylann Roof first

South Carolina has primary jurisdiction over the case of a man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners in Charleston last year and thus should be allowed to prosecute him before the federal government does, a state attorney argued Tuesday.

June 28, 2016

Authorities investigate inmate's death at S. Carolina prison

Authorities are investigating violence at a maximum-security South Carolina prison that left one inmate dead and another hospitalized.

June 28, 2016

The Latest: House GOP faults US military Benghazi response

The latest on the House GOP Benghazi report, released Tuesday (all times local): 10 a.m.

June 28, 2016

Prosecutors ask for mitigating factors in church shooting

Federal prosecutors in South Carolina want to know what mitigating factors the defense plans to present during the sentencing phase of the death penalty trial of accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

June 28, 2016

US Navy turns to cloud technology to reduce drunken driving

An American sailor has tapped a cloud-based technology for mobile phones to make it easier to have volunteers take turns driving drunk friends home, an initiative that has curtailed drunken driving among the Navy ranks.

June 27, 2016

Manhunt for third escaped inmate heats up in South Carolina

Authorities in South Carolina are searching for an inmate Monday who is still on the run after escaping with two others last week.

June 27, 2016

Authorities investigate deputy's shooting of suspect

Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a Pickens County sheriff's deputy's shooting of a break-in suspect.

June 25, 2016

Man wounded by officer at South Carolina beachfront park

Authorities in South Carolina say a police officer investigating a suspicious man at a beachfront state park shot the man.

June 24, 2016

Mom who killed kids in reincarnation case gets life

The husband of a South Carolina woman who killed their two children because she thought they would all be reincarnated in a better world can barely remember his own children because a bullet remains lodged in his skull.

June 23, 2016

Defense: Mom who killed kids in reincarnation case is insane

A jury will soon decide whether a South Carolina mother who says she shot and killed her children because she thought they would be reincarnated in a better world is guilty of murder or insane.