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WASHINGTON (AP) — Divisive Republican primaries, an out-of-nowhere GOP retirement in Maine and an unexpectedly competitive race in North Dakota add up to an unpredictable battle for control of the Senate this fall, confounding early forecasts that an era of Democratic rule was inevitably coming to an end. Adding to the uncertainty, tea party-backed challengers […]
PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) — More than a month before a Florida mother fatally shot her four children and then herself, authorities were called to the woman’s home because of fights and allegations of inadequate supervision. Dispatch records released Tuesday show that authorities responded to Tonya Thomas’ house on three successive days in April. […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its most famous priest had fathered a child years ago yet didn’t remove him from teaching morality to seminarians or speaking publicly about ethics. In a statement, the […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from Nevada state prison, alleging the former football star was so badly represented by lawyers in his trial and previous appeals that he deserves a new trial. A 94-page document filed Tuesday in Clark County District […]
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Wal-Mart is being sued for $1 million by a man who claims he was traumatized by a racist comment made over an intercom at a southern New Jersey store two years ago. Donnell Battie, of Winslow, accuses Wal-Mart of being negligent in failing to control access to the store’s intercom, which […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been determined. The former Penn State assistant football coach’s trial is scheduled to get under […]
MIAMI (AP) — Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. ABC News reports the medical records were part of evidence released Tuesday that prosecutors have in the second-degree murder case against […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the Republican’s claims that his background of business success is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty. At the center […]
A prominent Baltimore-area pastor and Maryland legislator who denounced President Obama’s stance on same-sex marriage and told his congregation he would not vote in the November election, told BlackAmericaWeb.com on Monday that he has modified his position and would continue to support the president. On Sunday, the Rev. Emmett Burns, pastor and founder of Rising […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities investigating two slayings on Mississippi highways said Monday they’re concerned the victims may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement to pull them over late at night. Lori Anne Carswell, 48, of Hernando was found near her car on Mississippi Highway 713 in Tunica County on May […]
First Lady Michelle Obama and talk show mogul Oprah Winfrey are not all smiles like many believe, according to the new book “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House” by Ed Klein, reports RadarOnline.
(New York, NY) –Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, along with Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus of NAACP, Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition for Black Civic Engagement, and Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery, Civil Rights Icon and President Emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, released an open letter embracing President […]
