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CINCINNATI (AP) — Donald Trump returned to his campaign roots Thursday in his first major public appearance since Election Day, resembling the pugnacious, brawling campaigner more than the traditional president-to-be as he held court in front of thousands of adoring fans — and even announced a Cabinet pick from the stage. Trump’s first stop on […]
A Baltimore City school tutor faces felony charges for slamming a second-grader into a wall on Monday, WBAL-TV reports. Travon Grayson, 7, was hospitalized with facial injuries that will require surgery, several missing teeth and multiple bruises, his mother, Lateekqua Jackson told the news outlet. Travon told his parents that the tutor, Timothy Korr, “threw” […]
A Colorado professor and doctor is claiming she isn't racist after making very disturbing comments about First Lady Michelle Obama.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who created a phony Facebook profile of her ex-boyfriend in order to frame the Southern California man for stalking has been sentenced to a year in jail. Stephani Lawson of Las Vegas was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to perjury and false imprisonment. Prosecutors say Lawson waged a […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The long-awaited federal death penalty trial of the white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church is scheduled to get underway next week with the final seating of a jury. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled Thursday that he anticipates the jury of […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A second fugitive inmate who escaped last week from a county jail in California by rappelling down with a bedsheet was re-arrested Wednesday night, after a seven-hour standoff with police. Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Rogelio Chavez was taken into custody at the house of an associate in […]
North Carolina teacher Lee Francis will continue to work in a warehouse, after the Cumberland County School Board upheld his suspension for stepping on the American Flag during a lesson on the First Amendment. According to WNCN: The Cumberland County School Board met Wednesday and decided to uphold the 10-day suspension without pay for Francis. […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A jury of 11 whites and one black man began deliberations Wednesday in the murder trial of Michael Slager, a fired white police officer who was videotaped killing a black motorist after a traffic stop. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman instructed the jurors on the law and told them they could acquit […]
DETROIT (AP) — The electrocution of a 12-year-old Detroit girl has exposed a new risk in a city that’s turning the corner nearly two years after emerging from bankruptcy: miles of obsolete power lines that could fall from poles and turn deadly. K’Brianna Griffin was killed in September when she came in contact with a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond has been elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The three-term lawmaker will take over for the current chairman, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., in January when a new Congress is sworn in. The 43-year-old Richmond has a reputation of working with Democrats and Republicans. Butterfield says he […]
A federal court has ruled North Carolina must redraw several districts and Gov. McCrory continues his attempt to remain in office.
Vandals defaced an Evansville, Indiana, church on Thanksgiving, leaving the message "Kill All Koons" on the sanctuary doors.
