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May 19, 2016

House chairman complains about Pentagon response on Benghazi

The chairman of the House Benghazi committee is complaining that the Pentagon has failed to provide the names of all the pilots who sent drones over Libya the night of the deadly 2012 attacks.

May 18, 2016

South Carolina police charge 4 students in assault case

South Carolina police say four middle school students are charged with possession of child pornography, and deputies say a fifth student is charged with criminal sexual conduct in connection with the same case.

May 18, 2016

Man charged in triple slaying in rural South Carolina

A man has been charged with three counts of murder after two women and an 8-year-old child were shot in a mobile home in rural South Carolina, authorities say.

May 18, 2016

The Latest: Identities of victims in triple slaying released

The Latest on a triple homicide at a mobile home park in rural Charleston County (all times local): 10 a.m.

May 18, 2016

Animal rescue: 70 dogs, cats seized in South Carolina

Authorities say more than 70 dogs and cats have been seized from a South Carolina home where a number of dead animals also were found.

May 16, 2016

Slave remains unearthed at construction site to be buried

The remains of three dozen people, most of them slaves buried in the late 1700s, will be buried in a church near where they were unearthed in downtown Charleston.

May 16, 2016

Defense: No objection to outside mental exam of Dylann Roof

Defense attorneys say they have no objection to a state request for an independent mental examination of Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman who is scheduled to stand trial for his life next year in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.

May 13, 2016

Mural honors victims of the Charleston church shootings

A new mural honoring the nine black parishioners fatally shot in a Charleston, South Carolina, church has been completed a little more than a month before the shooting's first anniversary.

May 13, 2016

Student accidentally shoots himself at SC high school, investigators say

A student brought a gun to a South Carolina high school and accidentally shot himself in the cafeteria Friday, causing a brief lockdown, investigators revealed.

May 12, 2016

In rare move, feds indict former officer in fatal shooting

Two things stand out about this week's indictment of a white former South Carolina police officer on federal civil rights charges in the death of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott: Such charges from the feds against an officer are relatively rare, and they send a message.