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Charleston church reopens
Graffiti appears on Confederate statue in Charleston
Denmark Vesey and a battle over history in Charleston
Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death'
Hunt for escaped convicts heats up near New York-Pennsylvania line
Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of New Orleans policeman
Texas abortion law teed up for Supreme Court review
Confederate flag sets off debate in GOP 2016 class
Manhunt for escaped killers shifts after possible sightings
Reopening church doors after shooting 'sends a message'

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Worshippers pack Emanuel AME Church just days after a gunman massacred nine people.

Graffiti appears on Confederate statue in Charleston

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT

A vandalized memorial honoring Confederate soldiers was covered in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday as the city continues to mourn the victims of last week's shooting massacre at a historic black church.

Denmark Vesey and a battle over history in Charleston

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Some residents think a monument to a former slave who plotted a rebellion never should have been erected.

Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death'

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 01:55 PM PDT

By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members. "We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.

Hunt for escaped convicts heats up near New York-Pennsylvania line

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:12 PM PDT

Hundreds of law enforcement officers stepped up their hunt in western New York state for two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate prison more than two weeks ago, as another possible sighting of the men was reported in a new search area. The manhunt centered on the town of Friendship, located about 280 miles (450 km) southwest of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, where the escaped convicts were serving life sentences for murder. The search in Friendship was winding down by Sunday night, but increased patrols will stay in the area, New York State Police spokesman Beau Duffy told Reuters.

Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of New Orleans policeman

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:50 AM PDT

Police said a "massive" manhunt led them to Travis Boys, 33, suspected of fatally shooting Officer Daryle Holloway before escaping Holloway's police cruiser, which crashed into a utility pole. Holloway, 45, a 22-year New Orleans police veteran and father of three, was found in his department vehicle with a gunshot wound.

Texas abortion law teed up for Supreme Court review

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 05:31 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion is back before the Supreme Court, and the justices could signal by the end of June whether they are likely to take up the biggest case on the hot-button subject in nearly a quarter-century.

Confederate flag sets off debate in GOP 2016 class

Posted: 20 Jun 2015 06:03 PM PDT

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.

Manhunt for escaped killers shifts after possible sightings

Posted: 21 Jun 2015 04:22 PM PDT

FRIENDSHIP, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state.