At least 1,219 US military deaths in Afghanistan since 2001

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,219

SC principal: 2nd student questioned in pipe bomb, shooting incident at high school

SC principal: 2nd student questioned in shooting

Police: SC student fired gun at officer on campus, also planted pipe bombs at school

Police: SC student planted pipe bombs school

More North Carolina residents leaving coast ahead of powerful Hurricane Earl

US President Barack Obama

SC officials: Mom, twin 3-year-olds die in fire started by food left on stove unattended

Food on stove ignites fire that kills mom, twins

AP Exclusive: Activists’ video shows SC hounds repeatedly running at chained, declawed bear

Group wants to end setting dogs on chained bears

Attorney says SC mom accused of killing her 2 sons, staging accident is remorseful

Lawyer: SC mom accused of killing sons remorseful

Sheriff: Mother of SC toddlers confessed to suffocating children before driving car into river

SC police: Mom killed children before sinking car

South Carolina sheriff seeking murder charges in deaths of 2 boys found in car in river

Murder charges sought in boys’ deaths in SC river

SC sheriff wants murder charges in deaths of 2 boys found in car in river; autopsies set

SC sheriff wants murder charge in boys’ deaths

SC sheriff wants murder charges against mother in deaths of 2 young boys found in car in river

SC sheriff wants murder charges in boys’ deaths

2 boys found dead in car in SC river; autopsies set, mother charged with leaving scene

2 boys found dead in car in SC river; mom charged

Bodies of 2 toddlers recovered from car found in South Carolina river; mother arrested

Bodies of 2 toddlers found in car in SC river

Bodies of 2 children recovered from car found in South Carolina river; mother arrested

Bodies of 2 children found in car in SC river

Agency reveals cell phone use by Coast Guard crews during collisions, urges policy

Agency urges Coast Guard policy on cell phone use

18 states endure deadly stretch of steamy weather as athletes, workers struggle to stay cool

18 states endure deadly stretch of steamy weather

Heat advisories across US South as humidity exacerbates temps to feel like 100-plus degrees

South bakes, humidity feels like 100-plus degrees

Circuit judge orders new trial for SC man who blames Zoloft in grandparents’ shotgun deaths

New trial granted for SC man in Zoloft case

11 East Coast attorneys general ask BP for assurances it would pay claims from their states

AGs seek assurances BP would pay East Coast claims

Oil spill causes anxiety for Gulf Coast beach trips while SE beaches look for new business

SE beaches look to woo tourists in oil spill limbo

Dale Earnhardt Jr. not unhappy after rough Darlington start

Junior wrecks 1 car, bangs up backup at Darlington

1 pilot dies, 1 crewman injured in helicopter crash at South Carolina National Guard base

Pilot dies, 1 injured in SC Guard helicopter crash

NTSB report cites poor plane maintenance in SC jet crash involving Blink 182 drummer, DJ AM

NTSB report blames tires in fatal SC Learjet crash

BMW plant in US cuts output after ash cloud from volcano disrupts trans-Atlantic parts supply

Volcano forces BMW plant in US to cut production

W.Va. miner enjoyed mother-in-law’s deviled eggs before entering mine for final time

Miners had one last dinner with families

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For the West Virginia miners killed in last week’s explosion, Easter dinner was the final time they would spend with relatives.

Karate, swimming, farming among interests of West Virginia coal mine blast victims

W.Va. miners were varied in experience, interests

W.Va. coal mine victim’s note to family among stories of those killed in explosion

Note for family among W.Va. mine victims’ stories

AP Exclusive: US recovers Chile’s last weapons-grade uranium, a model Obama can show the world

U.S. President Barack Obama

AP Exclusive: US team recovers Chile’s last weapons-grade uranium

U.S. President Barack Obama joins Martha Coakley

Aiming to keep Obama’s promise, US team recovers Chile’s last weapons-grade uranium

The White House

Safety board: Jet crash involving Blink 182 drummer, DJ AM ‘didn’t have to happen’

Tires cited in crash involving Blink 182 drummer

Dad who loved to go fishing with family, man weeks from retirement among W.Va. mine victims

Family men, outdoorsmen among W.Va. mine victims

Federal safety officials to discuss Learjet crash that killed 4, injured drummer and DJ

NTSB discussing cause of SC Learjet crash

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Federal officials will discuss why a Learjet hurtled off a South Carolina runway, causing a crash that killed four people and injured Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM.

Safety officials probe Learjet crash that killed 4 and injured Blink 182 drummer and DJ AM

NTSB probes crash that injured Blink 182 drummer

Newborn baboon is killed by its father within minutes of birth at SC zoo; 50 witnessed attack

Newborn baboon is killed by its father at SC zoo

FAA: High-performance homemade planes like the one that killed a beach jogger are apt to stall

FAA issues safety warning for homemade planes

Death against all odds: Plane lands on SC beach, killing jogger who never knew what hit him

A beach, a jogger, a failing plane, and death

Settlement approved for widow, son of Blink 182 drummer’s assistant killed in crash

Judge OKs settlement in deadly Lear jet crash

Plane attempting emergency landing hits, kills Ga. man jogging on SC beach at Hilton Head

Plane kills beach jogger in SC emergency landing

Say it ain’t snow? Flakes fall on the South, virtually shutting down the region

Snowballs did have a chance in the South

ATLANTA — It doesn’t take much snow to shut down the Deep South.

Snow on the kudzu: South gets its turn tackling winter as storm slogs from Texas to Carolinas

Shouldn’t it be sunny here? South gets snowed in

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to Fla.; some cities seeing biggest snowfall in years

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to Fla.

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to SC; some cities seeing biggest snowfalls in years

Rare snowflakes start falling from Miss. to SC

Schools close, flights canceled across South as region begins seeing rare snowfall

Schools close as South starts getting rare snow

Schools shutter as rare Southern storm threatens areas where snow hasn’t been seen in decade

Schools close as South braces for rare snow storm

US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa