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A goldfish weighing nine pounds came under the spotlight Monday after being discovered during a fish population survey at a lake in South Carolina, park officials said. Ty Houck, an official with Greenville County Parks, said the “massive” fish was found swimming on Nov. 16 in a 12-acre body of water in Oak Grove Lake Park in the county of…

Less than a day after being released from jail, Brandon Gonzales says he had no doubt he would eventually be cleared.

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting in Greenville Oct. 26 was released from jail Tuesday, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office says.

The man suspected of opening fire into a crowd of hundreds overnight Saturday outside Greenville is behind bars, arrested Monday morning, according to Sheriff Randy Meeks.

Police responded to a reported shooting Sunday at a Dallas vigil for one of the victims of the shooting in Greenville.

Two people are dead and 12 others were injured when a person, who remains at-large, opened fire into a crowd of hundreds attending a party in Greenville, east of Dallas, late Saturday night.

Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades. But his narrow victory didn’t erase questions about whether President Donald Trump and his party’s congressional candidates face troubling headwinds approaching 2020. Bishop, a state senator best known...

President Donald Trump’s rally in North Carolina will serve as a measure of his clout in trying to elect a Republican to the House in a closely watched special election that’s seen as a tossup race. It will be his first campaign rally since a tough end of summer that saw slipping poll numbers, warning signs of an economic slowdown...

Democrats’ plans for virtual presidential caucuses in Iowa and Nevada are effectively dead as the national party chairman said Friday the results would be vulnerable to hacking and abuse. Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, declared his opposition to plans for telephone voting submitted by the key early voting states of Iowa and Nevada, envisioned as part of...

President Donald Trump used a revved-up rally Thursday in Cincinnati to tear into the Democrats he has been elevating as his new political foils, attacking four liberal congresswomen of color and their party’s urban leaders, while also training fire on those he could be facing in 2020. But the president mostly avoided the racial controversy that has dominated recent weeks...

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Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he painted as extreme positions and suggesting they just get out. As Trump essentially doubled down on his tweets about the congresswomen...

President Donald Trump has placed racial animus at the center of his reelection campaign, and even some of his critics believe it could deliver him a second term. Every successful modern presidential campaign has been built on the notion of addition, winning over voters beyond core supporters. But Trump has chosen division on the belief that the polarized country he...

Storms were blamed for two deaths and left hundreds of thousands of people without power across the southern United States, forecasters said. Fallen trees ripped down power lines and crashed into buildings along a line from Texas to Alabama overnight and into Thursday morning, the national Storm Prediction Center reported. Similar damage continued later in the day in parts of...

Five South Carolina men were sentenced on Friday for their roles in the abduction of a man during a botched marijuana deal at a Berkeley motel last July in which they allegedly threatened to kill him unless they were paid a $30,000 ransom.

The plan to extend BART into Livermore has been dead for almost a year. Now, the Tri-Valley is considering an alternative.

The modern Israeli cuisine at Zahav in Philadelphia took a top honor Monday night at the James Beard Awards, which many consider to be the Oscars of the culinary world.

Police solved the 1988 stabbing death of an 80-year-old South Carolina woman not just with a cutting-edge DNA test but also with nearly two years of interviews and other old-fashioned police work, authorities said. The DNA test in 2017 only proved the suspect had been in Alice Haynsworth Ryan’s car, which was stolen after she was killed in her Greenville...

Buttigieg, a veteran and Rhodes scholar, was the longest of long shots when he announced a presidential exploratory committee in January. No mayor has ever been elected president, much less one from a community of roughly 100,000 people in the middle of America, and Buttigieg is barely old enough to be eligible for the job. But his underdog bid is...

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg told voters Saturday that his marriage to his husband exists “by the grace of a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court.” The South Bend, Indiana, mayor visited South Carolina for the first time since announcing his presidential exploratory committee. The 37-year-old would be the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party....

Five Democratic senators vying for their party’s nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020 fanned out across the country Saturday to campaign and meet voters. Kamala Harris of California spent her second straight day in the pivotal early-voting state of South Carolina, holding a town hall meeting in Columbia, the capital. Also visiting the state was Elizabeth Warren of...

The mystery is over. Partly. Lottery officials on Monday announced that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from last October — the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in U.S. history — but elected to remain anonymous.

A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug charges. News outlets report the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says 46-year-old Detric Lee McGowan was arrested Tuesday on charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. The agency says McGowan is the same man...

Nearly everyone in this small South Carolina town has a theory for the city’s billion-dollar mystery: Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot announced last October? Maybe the winner was so overwhelmed upon seeing the winning numbers that she or he died on the spot? Maybe the winner is on the run from police and fears a background check?...

Former Vice President Joe Biden wants to be president and is closer every day to being ready for a bid. But he’s considering what would happen if the president or his allies make his family an issue, NBC News reported. Aides close to Biden and other people he’s recently spoken to say Biden’s candidacy is a matter of when, not...

Kelly Clarkson fans rejoice. Here’s your chance to win tickets to Clarkson’s upcoming concert.

The death of a 20-month-old girl found stabbed and burned inside an oven of a Mississippi Delta home led to a murder charge Tuesday against the child’s grandmother, authorities said. Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams Sr. said 48-year-old Carolyn Jones was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Royalty Marie Floyd in the town of Shaw. “I’ve been doing...

Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph (155 kph) winds, Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities along the Carolina coast Friday in what could be just the opening act in a watery, two-part, slow-motion disaster. At least five people have been killed....
In Wilmington, first responders rushed to a neighborhood where a tree fell on the back...

Hurricane Florence’s leading edge battered the Carolina coast Thursday, bending trees and shooting frothy sea water over streets on the Outer Banks, as the hulking storm closed in with 105 mph (165 kph) winds for a drenching siege that could last all weekend. Forecasters said conditions will only get more lethal as the storm pushes ashore early Friday near the...

Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of the Southeast. Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined his counterparts in Virginia and North and South Carolina in...

Motorists streamed inland on highways converted to one-way evacuation routes Tuesday as about 1.7 million people in three states were warned to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence, a hair-raising storm taking dead aim at the Carolinas with 140 mph (225 kph) winds and potentially ruinous rains. Florence was expected to blow ashore late Thursday or early Friday,...

One of the world’s most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack the cancer, doctors report. It was the first human test of this and it didn’t help most patients or improve...

President Donald Trump campaigned Monday for the state’s GOP governor, who is in a tense runoff election — but made the vote all about himself, too. Speaking of Gov. Henry McMaster, Trump told an overflow rally crowd: “If a horrible thing happened and we weren’t lucky enough to have Henry win … they will say Donald Trump suffered a major,...

A TV news anchor and a photojournalist were killed Monday when a tree fell on their vehicle in North Carolina as they reported on flooding and severe weather associated with Subtropical Storm Alberto, the television station said. WYFF-TV Anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer both worked in the Greenville, South Carolina, market for more than a decade, anchor Carol...

Billy Graham, one of the nation’s most powerful preachers who helped usher evangelical Christianity into the American mainstream through televised sermons, best-selling books, political appearances and stadium revivals, died Wednesday at the age of 99. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association confirmed his death to NBC News. Graham, who long suffered from cancer and other ailments, died at his home in...

After years without the drugs to do lethal injections, the South Carolina Senate has agreed to require condemned inmates go to the electric chair instead. South Carolina law has empowered residents of death row to make a choice between lethal injection and the electric chair since 1995, so the lack of drugs enabled them to stay alive by choosing injections....

Police in McKinney arrested a woman in connection with the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old child in Greenville, authorities say.

Police dogs simply follow their noses to sniff out narcotics. But inhaling powerful opioids can be deadly, so officers have a new tool to protect their four-legged partners: naloxone, a drug that has already been used for years to reverse overdoses in humans. Law enforcement officers have started carrying naloxone with them on drug raids, when K-9s are often sent...

With a new school year dawning, education officials are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of Confederate figures from public schools — especially since some are now filled with students of color. The violence at a white nationalist rally over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, is giving school officials a new reason to...

Orange Line trains are single-tracking between West Falls Church and Vienna due to a downed tree outside Dunn Loring. Riders were told to expect delays in both directions on the Orange, Blue and Silver lines.

Cellphone video captured the moments just before two private investigators and a fugitive from Minnesota were killed in a gun battle Tuesday night when the pair tried to make an arrest inside a North Texas car dealership, police said. Gunfire erupted at about 7:10 p.m. Tuesday when two investigators from Corpus Christi, 33-year-old Gabriel Bernal and 54-year-old Fidel Garcia, tried...

Arlington police say a man is dead after leading authorities on a chase through four counties in an RV with two children inside after shooting a woman early Thursday.

Ten of the 15 fastest-growing cities with populations of 50,000 or more were spread across the South in 2016, with four of the top five found in Texas, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A contagious bacterial infection appears to be the cause of at least some cases in a mysterious outbreak in Liberia, U.S. health officials said Monday. The bacteria can cause meningitis, a dangerous brain infection, as well as blood infections. The country has reported 31 illnesses, including 13 deaths. The germ is spread through close contact with someone who’s infected, so...

Five children were injured after a gust of wind blew a bouncy house into the air at a church carnival in Greenville, South Carolina, NBC News reported. “It looked like a mini-tornado,” said Fire Chief Ricky Reed, who described the scene Saturday at Springwell Church’s annual Spring Carnival as “chaotic.” Four of the injured children were taken to the hospital...

The call came from what looked like a government number. When an immigrant in New York City answered, the voice on the other end told him he was in the U.S. illegally and would have to pay $1,550 to stay. It was scam, carried out by one of a number of con artists who have been exploiting immigrants’ heightened fears...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham faced rowdy constituents in Greenville, South Carolina, Saturday as questions continued to surround the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia and the plans for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. Graham has made himself known as one Republican who isn’t afraid to criticize the actions of the president and his administration. Still, at the senator’s town...

An 81-year-old man is lucky to be alive after a California National Guard crew on Friday plucked him from rushing water near the Northern California town of Taylorsville.

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A Delaware business owner originally from Delaware County in suburban Philadelphia injured in a deadly nightclub shooting in Istanbul during a New Year’s Eve celebration said he tried to stay clam and play dead so that he could escape alive.

A Delaware business owner originally from Delaware County in suburban Philadelphia injured in a deadly nightclub shooting in Istanbul during a New Year’s Eve celebration said he tried to stay clam and play dead so that he could escape alive.

The NCAA is relocating all seven championship events that were scheduled to be hosted in North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year, the association announced Monday. The decision came in response to a restrictive North Carolina state law, known as HB2, that eliminates anti-discrimination protections for LGBQTI individuals. One widely criticized aspect of the law dictates that in government buildings,...

Recent mysterious sightings of creepy clowns in the Carolinas have triggered fears among local residents – and drawn attention across the country. This week, North Carolina had a wave of reported clown sightings, in areas near Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

A skyrocketing number of students are seeking crisis counseling at East Carolina University, prompting the school to make sure it educates pupils not just on academics but also on how to cope with life’s challenges.

The gunman in shootings at protests in Dallas had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.

Republican White House hopefuls insisted that President Barack Obama step aside and allow his successor to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a raucous Saturday night debate that also featured harshly personal jousting over immigration and foreign policy....
The debate was shaken by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hours before the candidates took the stage. Among the...

Republican presidential candidates turn their sights on the South in Saturday night’s debate, with Marco Rubio looking to right his campaign after a costly stumble that gave new hope to some of his rivals....
Just six contenders will take the stage in Greenville, South Carolina, far from the long line of candidates who participated in earlier GOP debates. But even with...

A standoff has ended after troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety chased a stolen big rig to a dead end at a service road in Hunt County near Greenville Tuesday afternoon.

Police are investigating a suspicious incident involving a vehicle that may have been made to look like a Livermore Police Department vehicle.

Critics and early viewers agree that “The Interview” is less than a masterpiece. But thanks to threats from hackers that nearly derailed its release, it has become an event.

After years of criticism, the U.S government is giving up its control of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), NBC News reported.