IN SPORTS: Lakewood boys basketball looking to improve on record season B1 SCIENCE What does a set of 3.7M-year-old footprints reveal? A5 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents District still trying to understand audit Roof guilty on all counts results, plot course Charleston church shooter could face death penalty BY JEFFREY COLLINS devastating crime in a country stared ahead, much as he did the BY BRUCE MILLS AND MEG KINNARD that was already deeply embroiled entire trial. Family members of
[email protected] The Associated Press in racial tension. victims held hands and squeezed The same federal jury that one another’s arms. One woman Sumter School District Superinten- CHARLESTON — Dylann Roof found Roof guilty of all 33 counts nodded her head every time the dent Frank Baker said Thursday he will was convicted Thursday in the will reconvene next month to hear clerk said “guilty.” implement a board member’s recom- chilling slaughter of nine black more testimony and weigh wheth- Roof, 22, told FBI agents he mendation to change the district’s finan- church members who had wel- er to sentence him to death. As cial reporting system immediately, but comed him to their Bible study, a the verdict was read, Roof just SEE ROOF, PAGE A3 he said he still can’t even estimate the year-to-date general fund balance. The change comes after Certified Pub- lic Accountant Robin Poston presented her official audit report Monday night at the board’s scheduled meeting, detailing the school district went more than $6.2 March honors fallen friend million over budget last fiscal year and ended the fiscal year with a fund balance Friends and of $106,449 — a “critically low level” in family of Waltki her opinion.