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First African Methodist Episcopal Church will celebrate its 188th anniversary on Sunday. The theme is "Press On" and Rev. William Pulliam said everyone in the community is invited to the

First African Methodist Episcopal Church will celebrate its 188th anniversary on Sunday. The theme is “Press On” and Rev. William Pulliam said everyone in the community is invited to the

Bay Area soul music icon Darondo, who would have turned 75 this month, was nearly lost to history. Local music historian Justin Torres took it upon himself to search Darondo out.

Violence charges and that by federal law means he should not have been walking around with a revolver. at this point, william has denied bond. ryan young, cnn, chicago. at least ten people in custody for the arson terrorism in israel. the mayor of haifa calling this scale of the fire unprecedented. israels prime minister promises to punish those responsible. cnns oren liebermann is live for us. >> reporter: good morning, christine. a lot of the fires that firefighters were fighting yesterday h...

West virginia man facing first-degree murder charges for a black teenager who bumped into him outside a convenience store this week. he claims he feared for his life and defending himself when the 15-year-old pulled a gun on him monday night. police say that is not what he originally told him. we get more from cnns ryan young. >> reporter: a lot of questions remain about how this shooting actually happened. william pulliam said he was going to the dollar store when he encountered three teens. on...

Before police arrested him. he is actually talking from his jail cell. this is what he had to say. >> i dont like. it believe me, i didnt want to kill anybody. theyre not going to kill me. i felt my life was in danger. im sorry. im 62 years old. im not taking punks beating me up. it doesnt make a difference if he is black. everybody around me is black that lives around there. >> reporter: police have not been able to get back to us if the teen had a gun. william says he feared for his life and s...

Is black, i get along with all of them, ask them. >> something further complicating this story, brooke, something thats astonishing, police say this older man made a statement after being arrested. he said "the way i look at it, thats another piece of trash off the street." now hes saying he did not say that to the police department. we have called the police department to ask them questions about whether or not this young man had a gun and could there have been a moment where he feared for his ...

The 15-year-old james meade produced a gun and was waving it around. he said he wanted to get away from the young man, he went to the dollar store and on returning from the dollar store he crossed the street to avoid this young man. he says james crossed the street, they had more words and thats when he pulled his gun. listen to some of the words he said during that jailhouse interview. >> i felt my life was in danger. im sorry, but i mean, im 62 years old. i dont want a bunch of punks beating m...

Street to avoid the teenagers that he just had a little bit of beef with and thats when he says james means walked across the street and encountered him once again and when the gun was reproduced thats when he pulled his gun and opened fire. in fact, this man, william pulliam, gave an interview inside the jailhouse after being charged with murder. >> i dont like it. i didnt want to kill anybody. but, you know, theyre not going to kill me. i felt my life was in danger. im sorry but -- i mean, im ...

Possessing a gun at the time when this confrontation happened. thats also not part of the initial police report. one of the things people are talking about obviously is what happened to put these two men together where he pulled out a gun and then according to police, went home, ate dinner before police arrived to arrest him. lot of troubling details here in this one. >> thats disturbing. the suspect wasnt even supposed to have a gun in the first place, is that right? >> reporter: absolutely rig...