Author: Jeffrey Collins
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Alex Murdaugh convicted of murder in shootings of wife, son
WALTERBORO, S.C. • Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and son in a case that chronicled the unraveling of a powerful Southern family with tales of privilege, greed and addiction. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Murdaugh guilty of…
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Frustration builds as Carolina residents wait to go home
WILMINGTON, N.C. • Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods blamed for at least 37 deaths, including those of two women who drowned when a sheriff’s van taking them to a mental health facility was swept off a road.…
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Slow moving Florence terrorizing Carolinas
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Florence, now a tropical storm, swirled at a near-standstill over the Carolinas on Saturday, dumping non-stop rain over areas already flooded by seawater and swelling rivers and creeks across both states. Some towns have already been soaked by more than 2 feet (60 centimeters) of drenching rains , and forecasters warned…
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Storm’s uncertain track sows fear; 10 million in crosshairs
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. • Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of the Southeast. Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined…
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Court shares jailhouse videos of Charleston church gunman
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A week before the sentencing phase of his trial, Dylann Roof got a visit in jail from his mother, who pleaded with him to reconsider his decision to act as his own lawyer in the fatal shootings of nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church. But Roof was more concerned with…
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Dylann Roof’s friend gets over 2 years for lying to FBI
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The only person with whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plot to massacre parishioners at a historic black church was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison for hampering the investigation and lying to the FBI. “I’m really, really sorry. A lot of beautiful lives were taken,” 22-year-old Joey Meek…
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FBI: White felon bought gun for Dylan Roof-style attack
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Authorities say a 29-year-old white supremacist and convicted felon bought a gun from an undercover FBI agent in South Carolina that he said he wanted to use in “the spirit of Dylann Roof.” The FBI arrested Benjamin McDowell shortly after he bought the gun Wednesday for $109 in Myrtle Beach. McDowell is…
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Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. — An unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime. A jury deliberated for about three hours before returning with the decision, capping a trial in which the 22-year-old avowed…
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Hundreds of Nevada homes evacuated in floods along mountains
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Prosecutor clears Charlotte police officer in man’s death, says man was armed
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A prosecutor on Wednesday cleared a Charlotte police officer in the killing of a black man whose death touched off civil unrest, and he presented detailed evidence to rebut assertions that the slain man was unarmed. Officer Brentley Vinson was justified in opening fire on Keith Scott and won’t face charges, Charlotte-Mecklenburg…