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(Associated Press) - South Carolina's governor has signed a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, more than 50 years after it was raised in protest of the civil rights movement. Gov. Nikki Haley signed the bill Thursday on the second floor of the Statehouse, where through a window the secessionist battle flag was visible outside...

24/7 News Source - A bill that would remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol is past a key vote in the state Senate. The bill survived a second reading today by a vote of 37-3. That's more than the two-thirds it will need to ultimately pass...

President Obama says last week's deadly shooting spree in South Carolina has opened a lot of eyes to racial injustice and gun violence. Obama delivered the eulogy for one of the nine victims of the shooting in an historic black church in Charleston...

The nation's eyes were on South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Monday, June 22nd, when she said it was time for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds. It was a reversal for Haley from her previous position on the flag, and it came after momentum for taking the flag down had been building for days since last week's racially-driven church massacre in Charleston, p

Bond is set at one-million dollars for one of the charges against the man accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina this week. It was set at Dylann Roof's first court appearance in connection with the shooting. The judge said he could only set bail for a weapons charge in the case and didn't have the authority to set bail on the nine counts of murder Roof faces...

A mass murderer is on the loose after an horrific shooting left nine people dead inside one of the nation's most historic black churches.

At three years old, Sapphyre Johnson has seen enough of the inside of a hospital to last her a lifetime. She has been a patient of Shriners Hospital since she was eight months old. Born without toes and fingers, she underwent amputation of both feet to be fitted for prosthetics as a one year old...

As protesters in South Carolina continue to show their anger over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, other officers in the North Charleston police department are now also being investigated. As many as seven officers arrived at the scene after Michael Slager allegedly shot and killed Walter Scott in the back...

"Video appears to show North Charleston Officer Michael Slager shooting at 50-year-old Walter Scott as he was running away." A white South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager, is charged with murder after law enforcement officials viewed a video that shows the police officer repeatedly shooting a black victim, Walter Scott, in the back 8 times...

South Carolina officers did what everyone in Massachusetts wishes they could do...ARREST "The Snow Queen" Elsa for casting eternal winter on our land. The extreme cold has taken its toll on us long enough. It's time to bring an end to this tyranny...