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Seattle's NAACP leader disputes the police account of the fatal shooting of Che Andre Taylor. The civil rights group is calling for an outside investigation.
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a Massachusetts teenager convicted of raping and killing his high school math teacher (all times local): 11:30 a.m. The mother of a Massachusetts high school math teacher killed by one of her students says the death has left her “so very broken.” Peggie Ritzer was […]
Mark Zuckerberg has had enough of Facebook employees replacing “Black Lives Matter” on the company’s signature wall with “All Lives Matter.” So much so that the Facebook co-founder personally got involved with addressing the situation with a company announcement page. I In a private memo, Zuckerberg was not shy about how he felt, saying he […]
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — A suspect in the shooting and wounding of a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy was barricaded in a house in North Charleston on Friday morning, a police spokesman said. A female Berkeley County sheriff’s deputy was wounded early Friday after she stepped out of her vehicle in Goose Creek. Capt. Mike […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he is not interested in being considered for the Supreme Court vacancy — a decision that foils one route President Barack Obama might have had to breach Senate Republicans’ planned blockade of any election-year confirmation. Sandoval, a Republican and the state’s first Hispanic governor, issued […]
It’s no surprise that Republican candidate Donald Trump has the support of white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke, who today encouraged his radio show listeners to volunteer for the mogul’s campaign. “Call Donald Trump’s headquarters [and] volunteer,” he said on the David Duke Radio Program. At Trump campaign offices, he […]
In her continued quest to win African American voters, Hillary Clinton met with a unique group of black mothers at a campaign event in South Carolina on Tuesday. The mothers all had children die from police brutality. In attendance, at a town hall meeting at Central Baptist Church in Columbia, were Sybrina Fulton (Trayvon Martin), […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri on Thursday fired an assistant professor who had been suspended after run-ins with student journalists during protests last year, including a videotaped confrontation where she called for “some muscle” to remove a videographer from the Columbia campus. Melissa Click’s actions were “not compatible with university policies […]
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A county sheriff said Thursday it is possible “as many” as three to four people are dead, including a suspect, and up to 20 people may be injured after a series of shootings in south-central Kansas. The Daily Mail has identified the shooter as 38-year-old Cedric Ford, a former employee at […]
Strategically placing themselves at the front of the crowd, youth activist Ashley Williams, accompanied by a colleague, held a sign that displayed Clinton's previous comments in an effort to "bring her to confront her own words."
CHICAGO (AP) — Bernie Sanders was in his first year at the University of Chicago, 20 and with a thick New York accent, when he took to the steps of the administration building to rail against a university policy of racially segregated housing. “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students […]
WAVERLY, Va. (AP) — A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing four people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region. A day earlier, the system spawned about two dozen tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, damaging hundreds of homes in Louisiana, […]
