Explore the vast range of titles available.

\"The flames were pretty much licking the window right next to me,\" the 32-year-old recalled several hours later. \"I was so scared sitting up there. I thought I was going to die.\" \"I started yelling, 'Fire, fire!' \" \"I saw my dog on the ground,\" he said. \"That was really hard for me.\"

The Latino Association of Charleston has planned a march in downtown Charleston the day after the presidential inauguration. Members also will hold community forums this weekend in an attempt to interest U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to support undocumented family members. The Jan. 21 march will start in Charleston's Marion Square and will coincide with others in major cities across the country. This weekend, the Latino Association will host two community forums to try to persuade U.S. citizens and legal residents to petition for undocumented family members and friends. The forums at the International Longshoremen's Association Hall on Morrison Drive will be held 2-5 p.m. Saturday and the same time on Sunday. Goal: to ask U.S. citizens and legal residents to sign petitions urging the incoming U.S. president to declare a moratorium on immigration raids in the interest of keeping families together

\"Crime actually goes up during hard economic times because you have more people out of work and they feel a little more desperate,\" said Cpl. Fred Bowie, a Charleston police officer who serves as the local Crime Stoppers coordinator. \"They might be more likely to commit crimes, from passing bad checks to armed robbery.\" \"We're only going to be seeing the beginnings of this right now,\" [James E. Jurey] said. \"Everybody in the end is going to be affected by it. We all need to take part and we all need to be responsible.\"

Alonzo Neil Brown, 35, of North Charleston, spent about 90 minutes surrounded by officers in a sport utility vehicle that got stuck on the railroad tracks during a chase along Dorchester Road, Charleston police said in a press release. He gave up peacefully around 1 p.m. Authorities charged Brown and two other men with armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. The other men are Davin Jerome Stewart, 43, of North Charleston, and Robert Isaac Nelson Jr., 30, of St. Stephen. Affidavits accuse Nelson and Stewart of entering the Wachovia Bank at 828 Orleans Road about 11:15 a.m. Monday with handguns and carrying away money while Brown waited in the parking lot in the getaway vehicle.

\"He's been the personable one ever since we got them,\" Tom Pearson said. \"The other ones are stand-offish.\" \"We searched for quite a while and put out some fliers,\" Pearson said. \"We had no takers. I assumed he was in somebody's freezer.\" \"We were hoping it was [Buddie], but we really didn't know,\" he said. \"His eyes, they're different from the others.\"

The throng of 100 or so onlookers at Kent Avenue, about a block from the scene, included some of the man's family. As time wore on, emotions grew raw. Relatives recited the Lord's Prayer and begged for mercy. \"We had established a relationship over the years,\" [William Barfield] said. \"You'd lock him up, but that doesn't mean he was a bad person.\" Barfield arrived at the scene and helped persuade the man to give up. Then he walked over to the man's mother in the crowd and handed her a cell phone from her son. While talking to the news media afterward, Barfield declined to discuss the specifics of his conversation out of respect for the suspect's privacy.

Bobby Sloan, 60, is accused of shooting to death his wife, Darlene Sloan, 50, outside a house at 561 Rutledge Ave. Though the couple lived near Atlanta in Forest Park, Ga., Darlene Sloan had grown up in Walterboro and had family in Charleston. Officers recovered the five-shot revolver at the scene with four live rounds and one spent shell casing inside, an affidavit says. Darlene Sloan's 80-year-old mother, Beatrice Walker, had been a passenger in the car, police said, but had gotten out before the shooting.

Patrolman Adam Malone could hear the public from the driver's seat on a recent Friday night. One of the most common questions: \"What is that?\" \"We put these things to the test,\" Malone said. \"They can hold their own.\" \"Aside from the obvious -- they don't require any gasoline, they don't make any noise, they have zero tailpipe emissions -- they're pretty affordable,\" said Genevieve Cullen, vice president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association. \"Community-policing efforts, putting officers in touch with the communities they serve, these low-speed, quiet vehicles have a role to play there.\"

There was a small mound of wrapped Christmas presents and some of the clothes that Lilly Jackson had just bought her grandchildren for the holidays. Jackson didn't live at the home, but her daughter, Tawanna Mitchell, did. Now Mitchell and her four children were homeless on Christmas Eve. Water and smoke also damaged the unit next door to Mitchell. Chalonda Goss said most of her clothes were ruined, as was some furniture. The damage did not displace her because she already was in the process of moving to another home.