Football, HBCU Sports, NCAA

It’s not quite the good old days at TENNESSEE STATE, days when Coach “Big John’’ Merritt and his lieutenants, Alvin Coleman Joe Gilliam Sr., could shake any tree on campus and a dozen or so pros would fall out. But times are pretty good for Big Blue, the defending Black College National champion. The Tigers, […]

National News, News

EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The “vacation” is over and it’s back to the White House for President Barack Obama. The president headed for Washington late Sunday after spending two weeks with his family on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. He will soon have to decide whether the beheading of an American by Islamic State militants […]

National News, News

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Winemakers in California’s storied Napa Valley woke up to thousands of broken bottles and barrels as a result of Sunday’s earthquake. The earthquake couldn’t have come at a worse time for the region, which has just started harvesting the 2014 crop. “It’s devastating. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Tom […]

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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Jae Yeong Hwang drove in two runs and Hae Chan Choi weathered a late Chicago rally to lead South Korea to an 8-4 win in Sunday’s Little League World Series championship game. Hwang gave up one hit in two-plus innings while striking out four. He also drove in the Asia-Pacific […]

Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Death Row Records founder and rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was injured in an early morning shooting Sunday in a packed nightclub but was expected to survive, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant said. Knight was one of three club patrons struck by gunfire around 1:30 a.m. at 1OAK on West […]