The Latest: NASCAR backs calls to remove Confederate flags

Reprints + - A mourner carries a program while walking in for for the funeral service for Ethel Lance, 70, one of the nine people killed in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church last week in Charleston, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP Photo/David Goldman) Photo Credit: AP advertisement | advertise on newsday The latest in the Charleston church shooting. (All times local.) ___ 6 p.m. Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR's most popular driver, says the Confederate flag is "offensive to an entire race" and should be removed from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse. Earnhardt Jr.'s comments Friday followed an announcement NASCAR made this week backing...