The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple who allegedly burned a cross just steps away from their black neighbors’ home in a shocking act of racism. Federal agents searched the ...

The harassment reached its peak when the white couple was arrested in December 2023 after they were accused of erecting and setting fire to a cross outside the home of their Black neighbors during ...

Worden Butler and Alexis Harnett were arrested for second-degree harassment after they allegedly burned a cross on a Black couple’s lawn in South Carolina. By Noah A. McGee Published December 18 ...

The cross burning was the final straw, so they called Horry County police. Officers arrested their neighbors, 28-year-old Worden Butler and 27-year-old Alexis Hartnett, and charged them with ...

White couple who burned cross in yard facing Black neighbors' home now under FBI investigation By Meredith Deliso, ABCNews Thursday, December 21, 2023 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors pleaded guilty to a hate crime in federal court, the Justice Department announced Friday ...