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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.

June 23, 2016

The Latest: Jury has question on mom's insanity claim case

The Latest on a murder trial for a South Carolina mother in the fatal shooting of her two children (all times local) 3:45 p.m.

June 23, 2016

Father says deputy didn't need to use deadly force on son

The father of a man shot to death by a North Carolina sheriff's deputy says the officer could have used pepper spray or a stun gun and didn't need deadly force to subdue his stepson.

June 22, 2016

Transgender child can pick restroom at South Carolina school

The U.S. Education Department says a South Carolina school district has agreed to let a transgender elementary student use the restroom with which she identifies.