by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France Presse CHARLESTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Dorian lashed the Carolinas with driving rain and fierce winds as it neared the US east coast Thursday after devastating the Bahamas and killing at least 20 people. Parts of downtown Charleston were flooded, with video footage showing people kayaking in the dark in gushing knee-deep water in the stately city on the coast of South Carolina. Trees bent in wind gusting […]
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Disgruntled employee shoots, kills restaurant chef
By Diannemay Roson EBC Florida Bureau CHARLESTON (Eagle News) – It was a gloomy day for dining customers at the Virginia’s On King, a Southern-style Restaurant, in the middle of downtown Charleston, South Carolina, when an unfortunate turn of events happened. A disgruntled employee entered the restaurant in the afternoon on Thursday, shooting and killing an employee. He then began to take hostages inside the restaurant. The police and SWAT team, placed the surrounding areas on […]
Police officer in fatal S. Carolina shooting out on bail
A white police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after a South Carolina traffic stop was released from jail on $500,000 bail on Monday (January 4). Michael Slager, a North Charleston police officer who was fired after the incident, was jailed since his April arrest in the death of Walter Scott, 50. The fatal shooting was caught on video by a bystander and intensified a national debate on […]
White suspect arrested in killing of nine at black U.S. church
JUNE 19 (Reuters) — A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible-study group at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina was arrested on Thursday (June 18) and U.S. officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Law enforcement officials detained alleged gunman Dylann Roof, 21, after a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, about 220 miles (350 km) north of Charleston, said Shelby police chief Jeff Ledford. “At 10:43 […]





