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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Communities are swamped with water, dams are overflowing, bridges have collapsed and hundreds of roads are still inundated with floodwater. A solid week of rainfall has killed at least 10 people in South Carolina and two in North Carolina and sent about 1,000 people to shelters. The head of the South Carolina National Guard is comparing the devastation to Hurricane Hugo, which devastated Charleston, South Carolina, in September 1989.
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — On Friday, President Barack Obama travels to Roseburg, Oregon, where a gunman opened fire last week at a community college, killing nine people before killing himself. A law enforcement official says before the shooting, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer wrote that everyone else was crazy and that he was "the sane one." The gunman's mother told investigators that her son was struggling with some mental health issues.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 240 inmates have slipped away from federal custody in the past three years while traveling to halfway houses. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that several of those escapees have committed bank robberies and a carjacking while on the lam. Each year, the federal Bureau of Prisons allows thousands of inmates it considers low risk to serve the final months of their sentences at halfway houses.
HOUSTON (AP) — The Army officer who presided over last month's hearing for former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl) has recommended whether the U.S. soldier should be court-martialed for leaving his post in Afghanistan. But that recommendation will remain secret for now. Bergdahl is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. And the commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command will ultimately decide whether the case should be referred to a court-martial.
DENVER (AP) — Two marijuana users in Colorado are suing a pot business they say used an unhealthy pesticide to grow their weed. Lawyers say it's the first product liability claim in the nation involving the legal marijuana industry. The suit claims that Denver-based pot company LivWell used a fungicide called Eagle 20 EW, which can become dangerous when heated and is banned for use on tobacco. Authorities quarantined thousands of the company's plants earlier this year, saying they had been treated with the pesticide.
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