News, Top News

SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — A couple married for just three weeks lured a man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said. Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday night that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before, but their plans never worked […]

National News, News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top-selling Dutch newspaper has apologized for a story on its website that linked the death of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela with a controversial black-face character in the traditional Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas. In the opening sentence of an article collating reactions to Mandela’s death, De Telegraaf said Friday that […]

National News, News

NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou, who first met Nelson Mandela in the early 1960s, praised him as a great man worthy of comparison to another icon she knew, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “Our planet has lost a friend,” the author and poet said Friday during a telephone interview. Angelou was a journalist […]

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — He was with Nelson Mandela during all those years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on Robben Island. And, like millions around the world, he has been hit hard by Mandela’s death. Yet this South African was not one of Mandela’s fellow prisoners. Christo Brand was his jailer. Such was […]

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela wasn’t on life support and had many family members and doctors close by in his final hours, a family friend who was at his bedside said Sunday. Bantu Holomisa told The Associated Press that he had been called to Mandela’s home on Thursday by the family so he could visit […]

Football, HBCU Sports

Southern defeated Jackson State 34-27 in double overtime Saturday at Reliant Stadium in a game for the ages as the Southwestern Athletic Conference returned to Houston, its birthplace in 1920, for its 15th conference championship game. It was the first double-overtime contest in championship game history, and the crowd of 38,895, the third-largest ever got […]