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Posted: Dec 7, 2019 / 06:23 PM EST / Updated: Dec 7, 2019 / 06:23 PM EST

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Due to sports, WJBF NewsChannel 6 at 6 will not air. Here are your early evening headlines. Please joins us for WJBF NewsChannel 6 at 11 after the game.

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SC Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle

by The Associated Press / Jan 29, 2020

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) - A pastor in South Carolina wants to make a shrine of reconciliation out of a store that once sold racist merchandise and had a museum to the Ku Klux Klan.

The story of how the Rev. David Kennedy obtained historic theater building that housed The Redneck Shop in Laurens is told in a soon-to-be-released movie called "Burden."

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White supremacist appeals death penalty in church massacre

by The Associated Press / Jan 29, 2020

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - White supremacist Dylann Roof on Tuesday appealed his convictions and death sentence in the massacre of nine black church members in South Carolina.

His lawyers argue he was mentally ill when he represented himself during his capital trial. Roof became the first person to be ordered executed for a federal hate crime when he was sentenced to death for opening fire during a Bible study session at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015.

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Man whose wife died in house fire finds missing wedding rings

by Brady Mallory / Jan 28, 2020

We have an update to a story about a man who lost his wife in a fire, and then lost three reminders of the woman he loved. A week ago, Todd Gillette asked for your help to find two wedding rings and a third ring. He was wearing them on a chain, to keep his wife close to his heart. The chain broke, and he thought they were somewhere in Family Park. This week, he found a big surprise in his own yard.

You can spot equipment all over Todd's property, that'll help him put together his future. He's rebuilding his house, after a December fire that killed his wife, Lisa.

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