An Indiana high school student has been accused of plotting a mass shooting at a school near Indianapolis on Valentine's Day, local police said Thursday.
Thousands of mourners joined in song, sorrow and applause Friday before President Barack Obama's eulogy for nine black churchgoers who police said were slain in a racially motivated attack.
Historians point out that the cross and stars design was technically never the official flag of the Confederacy.
A packed room of clergy members listened to experts in Brentwood, this in response to the fatal church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina.
Last week nine church members in a historic black church were shot and killed, allegedly by a white man wanting to start a "race war." Now various states are reexamining their use of the Confederate flag.