Lawyer is at the center of race, gun debate on two high-profile Charleston cases

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Andy Savage keeps in his law office a sealed plastic bag with the blood-splattered clothes that Felicia Sanders wore sheltering her granddaughter from a fusillade of bullets that killed nine black parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Down the hall, his colleagues met recently with another client, Michael Slager, the white [...]

By |2017-04-24T10:07:52-04:00Wednesday, August 31, 2016|

Friend or foe? Open-carry law in Texas poses challenge to police

PARIS, Texas (AP) — Gun-rights activists, some of them wearing camouflage and military-style gear and openly toting rifles and handguns, marched alongside the hundreds of people who flocked to downtown Dallas last week to protest police shootings of blacks. Their presence was part of the new legal landscape in Texas, which earlier this year allowed [...]

By |2017-04-24T10:11:42-04:00Wednesday, July 13, 2016|
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