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KAKATA, Liberia (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama visited a leadership camp for girls in Liberia to launch her latest Africa visit Monday in a country still recovering from the recent Ebola epidemic that left thousands dead. “I am just so thrilled to be here with you,” the first lady told the young women at […]
ANSTED, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on flooding that has devastated parts of West Virginia(all times local): 10:30 a.m. West Virginia officials say two men presumed dead in West Virginia flooding have been found alive. In a memo Monday, state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato says two men thought to […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, whose legion of high-profile cases includes the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in an effort to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million. Debts to the IRS aren’t normally discharged in bankruptcy proceedings, but the 83-year-old Bailey said […]
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis says gays — and all the other people the church has marginalized, such as the poor and the exploited — deserve an apology. Francis was asked Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who told […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s going to be a busy holiday weekend on the nation’s highways. A record 43 million Americans are expected to travel this Independence Day weekend, with the overwhelming majority driving, according to AAA, a car lobbying group and one of the nation’s largest travel agencies. This tops the joint record set […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ten people suffered stab wounds and other injuries on Sunday after members of a white nationalist group that planned to rally outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento clashed with a larger group of counter protesters, authorities said. The fight broke out when about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker […]
Authorities say they were called to a local Taco Bell in Madison, Wisconsin, where they allegedly found Genele Laird yielding a knife.
Witnesses say they overheard Hampton and the man exchange a few words before he stabbed her multiple times, slitting her neck and torso.
Grambling State University President Willie Larkin has officially resigned according to KSLA. According to KSLA, he turned in his resignation at the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors meeting which took place on the campus of Louisiana Tech. Larkin told the board, “I have enjoyed the opportunity to lead this venerable university. Grambling State University […]
A grand jury declined to indict the police officer who pinned down a Black girl at a pool party. The police will hold a community meeting to discuss moving forward.
BALTIMORE (AP) — It was supposed to be an open-and-shut case: The 25-year-old black man was healthy before his arrest and arrived at the nearby station dying from a broken neck. But a judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors failed to prove any crime was committed by Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van where Freddie […]
Earlier this year on one of the first warm days of spring, a family in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, gathered, as many do, for a casual backyard cookout. Their good times would end in bloodshed in one of the most heinous crimes in the state’s history. Two shooters, one armed with a handgun, the other […]
