Lawyers

• Fight Over Confederate Flag Goes On

  The Confederate flag removed from the South Carolina Statehouse after Charleston church slayings, is garnering an ongoing fight over the flag due to the tough South Carolina law.

• FBI arrested a man threatened to commit a ‘Dylann Roof style attack’

  Benjamin McDowell, a man from South Carolina was arrested for illegal possession of firearm with the intention to commit a crime similar to the 2015 massacre committed by Dylann Roof.

• Accused gunman in Charleston church shooting proposes guilty plea

  An attorney for the man accused of gunning down nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina in June said on Wednesday his client is willing to plead guilty to state murder charges if that would spare him a death sentence.

• South Carolina church shooting suspect to face federal hate crime charges

  The white man charged in South Carolina with killing nine blacks at a Charleston church faces federal hate crimes and firearms charges that could lead to the death penalty or life in prison, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.

• Flag dispute triggers clash at South Carolina capitol

  At least five people were arrested on Saturday as white-supremacist and African-American groups clashed outside the South Carolina State House, where the Confederate battle flag was removed last week after a half-century, authorities said.

• Confederate flag to fall from South Carolina state capitol

  The Confederate battle flag, a symbol of both racism and southern pride, will be removed on Friday from the South Carolina state Capitol grounds after the Civil War banner fell from favor since the slaying of nine black churchgoers in June.

• Confederate flag debate reaches Congress

  A growing backlash in Southern states against flying the Confederate battle flag spread to the U.S. Congress on Thursday when Democratic lawmakers aimed to remove the banner from parts of the Capitol, but it quickly ran into opposition in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

• Battle over Confederate flag unfurls in South Carolina and beyond

  An initiative to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds picked up steam on Tuesday, a week after the massacre of nine black church members, and criticism over the emblem long associated with slavery spread to other U.S. southern states.

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

  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.