A man was found dead inside an enclosure with kangaroos and wallabies in South Carolina, Horry County police said in a statement on Saturday. The incident, which happened late Friday evening at a Highway 746 farm near Loris, occurred between a non-domesticated animal and an adult relative of the animal’s owner, police said. The victim…
An earthquake of 4.1 preliminary magnitude jolted parts of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. The quake hit about 13 miles from Greenback, Tennessee, which is about 30 miles south of Knoxville, the U.S. Geological Survey said, around 9 a.m. local time. Residents in Atlanta and parts of western North Carolina reported on social media…
An inmate put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop his heart, according to a pathologist hired by the inmate’s attorneys. An autopsy photo of Mikal Mahdi’s torso…
A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him, and his arms flexed. He groaned two more times about 45 seconds…
A cop-killer who shot his victim nine times before setting him on fire will be executed tonight. Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in Columbia, South Carolina, for the murder of 56-year-old police captain James Myers. Myers was shot nine times after he found Mahdi hiding…
South Carolina is set to execute another death row inmate by firing squad, a little more than a month after a convicted murderer was executed the same way. The March 7 execution of Brad Sigmon marked the first execution by firing squad since 2010. Before Sigmon, only three people i the U.S. had been executed…
The Charleston Church Shooting: Six Years Later – CBS News Watch CBS News The CBSN Special “The Charleston Church Shooting: Six Years later” marks six years since the fatal shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. CBS News contributor Antjuan Seawright speaks with several survivors of the attack, as well as…
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) – Data obtained by WIS showed nearly 2,000 cell phone policy violations among Lexington County high schools in the last three months. The statewide cell phone ban went into effect in January and requires students have their phones put away from the first bell to the last bell, creating a phone-free…
Wildfires that broke out in one North Carolina county have exploded in size, prompting mandatory evacuations as emergency crews fought separate fires in an area still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, the governor declared an emergency in response to a growing blaze in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The North Carolina Department of…
The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who police say killed himself after lawyers questioned him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects are suing the aviation giant. Boeing subjected John Barnett to a “campaign of harassment, abuse and intimidation intended to discourage, discredit and humiliate him until he would either give…