COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) After decades of debate and mounting pressure from an NAACP boycott, South Carolina finally removed the Confederate flag from atop its Statehouse on Saturday in a somber ceremony that paid tribute to its Civil War roots. The flag, seen as a reminder of slavery for some and a tribute to Southern heritage for others, flew atop the Statehouse dome for 38 years. But protests over the flag continued even as it was being lowered: Civil War re-enactors raised another Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, in front of a Confederate soldier