ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City's mayor says he would love nothing better than to confront New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie "mano a mano." Speaking on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday, Mayor Lorenzo Langford disputed Christie's criticism that Langford erred by allowing people to shelter on the barrier island rather than moving them inland. Langford […]

MIAMI (AP) — With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely telling them they can vote early by phone and don't need to go to a polling place. Indiana's secretary of state launched an investigation. Virginia officials issued […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 35, many of the victims […]

Veteran Democratic Florida lawmaker Al Lawson locked arms with the legendary civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) to lead a throng of supporters to vote early. With a week left in a highly contentious battle against one-term U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.), Lawson knows that every vote counts if he is going […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is canceling a third straight day of campaigning because of the superstorm that battered the East Coast The White House says the president will not attend events scheduled Wednesday in swing state Ohio. He will remain in Washington to monitor the storm and the federal response. Obama had already […]

A Texas group has made billboards saying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, and that minority voters should vote Republican too. The man behind the billboards in Texas, Claver Kamau-Imani, said his group whose site is RagingElephants.org, tries to court minority voters to the Republican Party, reports Memphis station WREG. “The use of […]

Boley, Oklahoma was established in 1904 as one of the largest and most thriving black towns in the country. Formed after the Great Migration, when thousands of blacks moved up north after slavery, Boley was founded on land that was owned by a black woman, Abigail Burnett McCormick. McCormick had inherited the land from her […]

Got a question about diabetes? Text it to “646464” (OHOHOH) — Experts will gather at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, Nov. 14-17, for the Global Diabetes Summit to discuss the latest diabetes research and develop a road map for the prevention, detection, treatment and management of the disease, which has been diagnosed […]

Former teacher and Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones is turning her crime into cash. Jones, who was busted for sleeping with a 17-year-old student at a Kentucky high school, just landed her own reality show. Earlier this month, Jones pleaded guilty to sleeping with her former student Cody York who is reportedly her current boyfriend. […]

Three months after his untimely death, legendary actor Sherman Hemsley still has not been buried. Hemsley died on July 24, however, according to a funeral home employee Hemsley remains at the San Jose Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas. The funeral home claims they are waiting for a court order to find out what to […]

Chris Tucker drew a lot of laughs on his last Tom Joyner appearance when he said the IRS sent him back to work. His tax troubles may have been the motivating factor, but fans are just glad that Tucker has reappeared after a self-imposed hiatus. He’s in the critically acclaimed new movie “Silver Linings Playbook” […]

If there is anyone who is a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit, it’s military veteran J.R. Martinez. In 2003, the Georgia resident was serving in Iraq in the Army’s 101st Airborne unit when a Humvee he was driving struck a mine. Burned over 30 percent of his body, including his face, he […]