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Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, who was a co-chairman in President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and spoke at the party’s national convention that year, flipped the script Tuesday night. This year Davis, who left Alabama and moved to Virginia after failing to win the Alabama Democratic Party nomination for governor in 2010, […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Tampa stopped a dozen anti-war protesters from entering an event attended by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the group said it intended to arrest her for war crimes. The protesters from Code Pink carried handcuffs Tuesday and tried to enter a performing arts center. Rice was attending […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The grizzly bear stares at the camera with a look that appears ominous in the last photograph snapped by Richard White just before the animal mauled him to death in Alaska's Denali National Park. The photo is among 26 snapshots of the male bear taken in an eight-minute time frame by […]
The mayor of a South Texas town was killed on his ranch by a donkey. The body of Hollywood Park mayor William "Bill" Bohlke was found Monday about five yards from his truck. Police officials said that he died of an attack from an aggressive 500-pound male donkey. The 65-year old was retired from the […]
Pastor Craig Lamar Davis of Atlanta’s Full Gospel Baptist Church was arrested on July 22 for reckless conduct. Police investigators discovered that he has HIV and had allegedly been indulging in unprotected sex with several of his congregation members. One of his congregation victims has come forward with her story. For details log on to NewsOne.com.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Anguished family members of some of the Colorado theater shooting victims lashed out at a fundraising campaign Tuesday, saying it collected more than $5 million "using pictures and names of our murdered loved ones" but so far has given no more than $5,000 each to families facing bills for medical treatment, […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama's best chance to draw an enthusiastic audience. More than 25,000 people showed up during his three-state college town tour this week, including 7,500 at a rally at a pavilion near the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of the gunman in the Empire State Building shooting said she doesn't blame police for killing her son, but she still thinks of him as kindhearted and caring. "You know a mother always tries to look for the best in you," Jeffrey Johnson's mother told The New York Times […]
NEW YORK (AP) — On a wind-swept island off New York City, the remains of 850,000 people rest in pine boxes in a grid of covered trenches — but many are not resting in peace. They are the unidentified or unclaimed dead who have been found around the nation's largest city — often with little […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Police say robbers who held up an Ohio man at gunpoint gave him back enough money for bus fare before running away. It happened at a Dayton bus stop on Tuesday morning. The Dayton Daily News reports that two men walked up, and one of them put a gun to the […]
Call it the “Battle of the Defecting Politicians.” Former Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, a black Democrat/turned Republican, is scheduled to speak at the GOP convention Tuesday night in Tampa. Not to be outdone, Democrats announced Monday that former Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist will speak at their convention in Charlotte next week. “I’m very […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As college students return to campus, President Barack Obama's campaign will be there waiting for them. Obama aides sees college campuses as fertile ground for registering and recruiting some of the more than 15 million young people who have become eligible to vote since the 2008 election. As Republicans hold their party […]
