Charleston suspect Dylann Roof’s alleged manifesto discovered online
The white man accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina appears to have left a hateful screed on the Internet.
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Manhunt for escaped killers shifts after possible sightings
FRIENDSHIP,
N.Y. (AP) — The search for two convicted killers in New York shifted
after possible sightings in the southern part of the state, 350 miles
from the prison where the men escaped two weeks ago.Read More ...
Confederate flag sets off debate in GOP 2016 class
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012,
called for the immediate removal of the Confederate battle flag from
outside the South Carolina Statehouse, scrambling the 2016 GOP
presidential contenders into staking a position on a contentious
cultural issue.Read More ...
Charleston mourns, begins healing after church massacre
By
Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, South
Carolina (Reuters) - Mourners were expected to flock to the Emanuel
African Methodist Church in the historic U.S. city of Charleston as it
reopens for worship on Sunday, days after a gunman shot nine black
church members to death during a Bible study group. Arriving from around
the United States on Saturday to pay respects to those killed, they
created makeshift memorials as a small step toward healing from the
latest U.S. mass shooting, which has again trained a spotlight on the
nation's pervasive and divisive issues of race relations and gun crime.
Authorities say he spent an hour in an evening Bible study group at the
church, nicknamed "Mother Emanuel" for its key role in African-American
history, before opening fire on Wednesday night.Read More ...
Police converge on NY towns where escaped prisoners said sighted
Heavily-armed
police converged on towns in western New York state on Saturday to
investigate possible sightings of two convicted murderers who escaped a
maximum-security prison two weeks ago, police said. A witness saw two
men who might have been the escapees walking along a railroad track in
Friendship, a community of about 2,000 residents in a rural patch of
Allegany County, New York State Police said in a statement. Police set
up a perimeter in the area of Friendship, about 280 miles (450 km)
southwest of the Clinton Correctional Facility where the escaped
convicts had been serving sentences for murder, said New York State
Police spokesman Beau Duffy.Read More ...
New Orleans policeman shot and killed while transporting suspect
A
suspect shot and killed a New Orleans police officer who was
transporting him to jail on Saturday, officials said, adding that a
manhunt was underway for the suspect who escaped the police vehicle,
which crashed into a utility pole. It remained unclear how exactly
Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, was killed, but police said they were
seeking Travis Boys, the suspect who had been handcuffed when Holloway
began driving. Holloway, a 22-year New Orleans police veteran, was found
with a gunshot wound in his department vehicle after it crashed, police
said in a statement.Read More ...
Hillary Clinton calls for gun control, decries racism
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Issuing an emotional plea following the South Carolina church
shooting, Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "common-sense" gun reforms
and a national reckoning with the persistent problem of "institutional
racism."Read More ...
Police check out new lead on escaped New York prisoners
FRIENDSHIP,
N.Y. (AP) — The search for two killers landed Saturday in New York's
southern tier near the Pennsylvania border, about 350 miles from the
prison where they escaped two weeks ago.Read More ...
Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college
A black drinking buddy of Dylann Roof says he told him a week earlier of his plan to shoot up a college campus.Read More ...
Why isn't suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof called a terrorist?
Dylann
Roof hoped that he would spark a “race war” by murdering nine
African-American people in South Carolina, according to reports.Read More ...
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