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CLINTON, La. (AP) — Authorities say the 8-year-old boy suspected of fatally shooting his caregiver is believed to have been playing a video game minutes before he got a gun and fired it into the back of her head. Detective Don McKey of the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office tells The Advocate investigators cannot say […]

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general sued Donald Trump for $40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony “Trump University” that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships. Trump shot back that the Democrat’s […]

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Victims of convicted child abuser Jerry Sandusky who have reached settlements with his former employer, Penn State University, express bitterness toward him and the school as university officials say they continue to negotiate with others toward resolving their complaints. At least eight of 31 claims of abuse by the school’s former […]

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African leader Nelson Mandela remains in critical but stable condition in a hospital, though “medical interventions” are required because his health sometimes becomes unstable, the South African government said Saturday. Doctors are working hard for a “turnaround” in the condition of 95-year-old Mandela, who was admitted to a hospital in […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary-Pat Hector of Atlanta was operating much like a 1960s civil rights activist as she laid plans for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. She was constantly on the phone as she confirmed event details, tweaked the draft of the speech she gave at Saturday’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial […]

A sobering report released last weekend states that the economic disparity between Blacks and Whites has virtually remained the same for the past 50 years.…

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On Wednesday, Black Twitter officially received its own Wikipedia page. SEE ALSO: Lee Daniels Perpetuates Black Myths That Need To Die On Wikipedia, Black Twitter…

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly two decades after they made the nation gawk by forming its first unionized strip club, the dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady are hanging up their thongs. The employee-owned, co-op club will close in two weeks because it can no longer afford its rent. General manager Scott Farrell tells the […]

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ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a man whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park. The indictment was returned Thursday. It charges Hernandez with the killing of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player […]

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Calling higher education an “economic imperative,” President Barack Obama is pushing for an ambitious new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed. The rating system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would […]

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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to […]

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A former San Antonio teacher accused of directing students to hit a schoolmate for being a bully has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Cynthia Ambrose also was ordered Tuesday to serve two years’ probation after being convicted in June of official oppression. Prosecutors say the 44-year-old told her elementary […]