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Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump's unconventional White House bid.

Orlando gunman Omar Mateen spoke in Arabic to a 911 dispatcher, identified himself an Islamic soldier and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the U.S. "stop bombing Syria and Iraq," according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday.

A Pacolet man accused of stabbing and beating his mother to death is scheduled to go to trial Monday afternoon.

A second 3-year-old South Carolina boy has died after falling into a backyard swimming pool with his twin brother near Easley.

Federal investigators promised to provide more insight as to what was happening inside the Pulse nightclub after a gunman started a deadly assault that was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. Mike Daniel expected he would see state Sen. Clementa Pinckney again after they spoke a year ago outside the Senate Finance Committee room in Columbia.

Residents in the Hilltop Area Fire District will likely decide in November whether to approve funding for new capital expenditures.

Progress continues with the Northside Initiative, a comprehensive effort to redevelop the Northside area of Spartanburg, a once vibrant neighborhood that represented nearly 10 percent of the city's population in the 1980s.

With few services available for inmates upon release, some faith-based community groups have stepped in to help fill the gap. Here are two in the Upstate that are working to keep people out of jail: