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by Logan Cyrus with Sara Kamouni in Washington Agence France Presse CAYCE, United States (AFP) — Two Amtrak employees were killed and more than 100 other people were injured early Sunday when a passenger train carrying 147 people hit a freight train in the US state of South Carolina, authorities said. Amtrak train 91 — traveling from New York to Miami — derailed in Cayce, outside the state capital Columbia, after colliding with a CSX […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – An Arizona man was charged Friday with making armor-piercing ammunition without a license and selling it to the Las Vegas gunman whose October killing spree left 58 concert-goers dead. Stephen Paddock, 64, killed himself after the rampage carried out from his hotel suite on Las Vegas’ famed Strip on October 1 — the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history. Douglas Haig, 55, is charged with one count of conspiracy to […]
By Josh Tolentino Eagle News Sports GLENDALE, ARI. (Eagle News) — Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points as Gonzaga defeated South Carolina 77-73, in a battle of first-time teams at the Final Four. The Bulldogs advance to their first-ever NCAA Championship Game and will face the winner of North Carolina-Oregon. Gonzaga’s pair of 7-footers in senior Przemek Karnowski and freshman Zach Collins gave South Carolina’s wings trouble on both ends. The pair combined for 27 points and 18 rebounds […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the gunman suspected of killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina last year, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Tuesday. Dylann Roof, 22, allegedly joined an evening Bible study class at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, then shot participants with a .45-caliber Glock handgun. Three people survived the shooting. Roof was arrested in North Carolina a day after the shooting. […]
Columbia, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton has won South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary by a wide margin, US networks projected, handing her a welcome victory over Bernie Sanders before the high-stakes “Super Tuesday” contest. “To South Carolina, to the volunteers at the heart of our campaign, to the supporters who power it: thank you,” Clinton tweeted as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all called the vote in her favor at the close of polls on […]
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 […]
Persistent torrential rainfall in South Carolina caused dangerous flooding in the state’s main cities on Sunday (October 4) and prompted hundreds of rescues through shoulder-deep waters across the southeastern state. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said parts of the state were hit with rainfall that would be expected to occur once in a thousand years, with the Congaree River running at its highest level since 1936. Haley also said that three people had died as […]
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 […]
