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MLK Day at King's Atlanta congregation features daughter's warning about anti-woke rhetoric

Jan. 20, 2025 15:00 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — A massive 70-member choir belted out “Hallelujah” at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service Monday at his former congregation in Atlanta, followed by a stern message from his youngest daughter warning against anti-woke rhetoric. The service at Ebenezer Baptist...

Lots of new faces and maybe a more conservative tilt as South Carolina Legislature starts session

Jan. 14, 2025 14:33 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More introductions than normal were needed Tuesday as the South Carolina General Assembly started its latest two-year session. Nearly one in five lawmakers in the legislature are new to their jobs. In the Senate, 13 of the 46 members were elected in November...

Many Democrats don't think they'll see a woman become president, AP-NORC poll finds

Jan. 11, 2025 08:39 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats are harboring strong feelings of stress and gloom as the new year begins. And many are questioning whether their party's commitment to diverse candidates — especially women — may lead to further political struggles in the Donald Trump era. A recent...

The Latest: Jimmy Carter’s Georgia funeral ends

Jan. 09, 2025 18:47 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed. What to know: ...

South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist

Jan. 09, 2025 15:41 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave's work after the Civil War. ...

After holiday pause, South Carolina begins scheduling executions again

Jan. 03, 2025 14:33 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays. The state is working through a backlog of inmates out of appeals but temporarily spared because prison officials couldn't obtain...

Farmers are still reeling months after Hurricane Helene ravaged crops across the South

Dec. 21, 2024 09:04 AM EST

LYONS, Ga. (AP) — Twisted equipment and snapped tree limbs still litter Chris Hopkins’ Georgia farm more than two months after Hurricane Helene made its deadly march across the South. An irrigation sprinkler system about 300 feet (92 meters) long lay overturned in a field, its...

Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

Dec. 18, 2024 15:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina's move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. The court agreed to take up the state's appeal of a lower-court...

South Carolina death row inmate makes final appeal, says trial lawyer wasn't prepared

Dec. 17, 2024 16:49 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man convicted of murder who is expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final appeal to the state Supreme Court, saying his trial lawyer was inadequately prepared and had too much sympathy for the victim. According...

Kay Patterson, who rose from janitor at segregated South Carolina capitol to state senator, dies

Dec. 13, 2024 17:00 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93. The South Carolina Democratic Party announced Patterson's death saying he “left...