July 5, 2017 Pipeline expected to restart after leak triggered surging gas prices in South A main gas line is expected to restart Wednesday with a temporary bypass after a leak and spill in Alabama led to surging fuel prices and some gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday.
July 5, 2017 Julia weakens to tropical depression, expected to drench East Coast Julia has weakened to a tropical depression off South Carolina after bringing steady rains, but not the torrential downpours and widespread flooding that had been feared, to the coast of the Southeast from Florida to the Carolinas.
July 5, 2017 Attorneys for Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof challenge death penalty Attorneys for Dylann Roof, the white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church, want a federal judge to rule the death penalty unconstitutional and allow their client to plead guilty and serve life in prison.
July 5, 2017 Dylann Roof's friend dodges harsher punishment Joseph "Joey" Meek, the friend of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, will not face a tougher sentence for failing to help prevent the massacre, a federal judge ruled Monday.
July 5, 2017 Military moms fear contaminants at housing base are giving children cancer The Marine Corps says it is addressing the concerns of a military mom who posted a YouTube video warning about what she claims are potential cancer risks for anyone who has resided at her family’s former military housing unit in South Carolina.
July 5, 2017 Dylann Roof formally sentenced to death for Charleston church massacre Dylann Roof was formally sentenced to death Wednesday for the church massacre in Charleston, after victims’ relatives described the pain he unleashed in a hail of gunfire at Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015.
July 5, 2017 Charleston church shooter to face death sentence The same jury that convicted Dylann Roof in the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME church has reached a unanimous verdict on his sentence: death. Roof looked down silently as the panel announced its decision in U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C. late this afternoon.
July 5, 2017 Prosecution rests in sentencing phase of Dylann Roof trial Dylann Roof stared forward, displaying no emotion, as more relatives of his victims told stories of lives disrupted by the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church.
July 5, 2017 Winter blast hits eastern US, triggers hundreds of crashes in North Carolina A blast of winter weather slammed a big chunk of the U.S. on Saturday, triggering hundreds of crashes in North Carolina while dumping snow from New England as far south as parts of Georgia.
July 5, 2017 Charleston shooting survivors describe emotional pain Dylann Roof inflicted Survivors of the Charleston church shooting and relatives of the victims were testifying on Thursday as prosecutors aimed to portray the emotional devastation Dylann Roof inflicted on the entire community.
