Charleston, South Carolina

In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. And when he died in middle age, he was buried alongside 35 other slaves.

Charleston police are responding to an active shooter situation that has closed a portion of one of the downtown area’s busiest streets.

An F-16 fighter jet smashed into a small plane July 7 over the southern state of South Carolina, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide swath of marshes and rice fields.

A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged June 20 in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.

The 21 year-old Charleston killer Dylann Roof who confessed to killing nine African-Americans in a church of Charleston, South Carolina was apparently originally planning to assault a college.

NBC News and the Washington Post claim that Roof told an African-American neighbor of his recently, on a night when they were out drinking, that he wanted to shoot up a school.

Police captured the white suspect June 18 in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions.

A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on June 18, describing the attack as a "hate crime". 

The suspect, who police described as a 21-year-old white man wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and boots, was still at large hours after the shooting on June 17 evening. 

Nine people were confirmed dead after a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday. Police said several bodies were in the church that were now being identified. Among the dead was the state senator who was pastor of the church, Democrat Clementa Pinckney.

CHARLESTON - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic reached the quarter-finals of the WTA tennis tournament in Charleston by beating Ajla Tomljanovic of Croatia 7-5, 6-1 late Thursday.

Jankovic's next opponent will be Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, who beat Venus Williams of the United States 2-1.