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ATLANTA (AP) — Walt Bellamy, the Hall of Fame center who averaged 20.1 points and 13.7 rebounds in 14 seasons in the NBA, died Saturday. He was 74. The Atlanta Hawks confirmed the death, but didn’t provide details. The Hawks said Bellamy attended the team’s home opener Friday night. “Walt Bellamy was an enormously gifted […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Front-running mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio faces political and legal dilemmas now that a judge’s ruling critical of the police department’s stop-and-frisk tactic has been blocked. The federal judge’s summertime rebuke of the department’s stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory to blacks and Hispanics was a ringing affirmation of one of de Blasio’s […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 100-foot pylons at Los Angeles International Airport will be lit blue this weekend in honor of a transportation security officer who was killed in a shooting. Authorities say 23-year-old Paul Ciancia strolled into Terminal 3 Friday, pulled a semi-automatic rifle from his duffel bag and started firing at Transportation Security […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — It took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the nation’s capital is on the fast track. The D.C. Council is poised to approve a bill that would decriminalize possession of small […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, who ignited a national furor over racism and gun control after he shot four panhandling youths on a train in the 1980s, has been charged with misdemeanor sale and possession of marijuana, authorities said Saturday. Goetz was nabbed in a sting operation in Union Square park Friday […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A suspected gunman was in custody following a shooting at Los Angeles airport that killed a TSA agent and wounded two other people. This is what AP reporters on the scene Friday are learning about the events unfolding: ___ WAYLAYED PASSENGERS. 11:30 a.m. Evacuated passengers were loaded onto buses by the […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shots were fired Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, prompting authorities to evacuate a terminal and stop flights headed for the city from taking off from other airports. Gunshots were reported at Terminal 3 just around 9:30 a.m., the FBI said. There was no immediate word of any injuries, but television […]

The estranged wife of George Zimmerman, Shellie Zimmerman says he nailed a bullet-filled target to the wall of her home as a “subliminal message.” Radar…

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SPRING LAKE, N.C. –  A Harnett County teacher has been fired after school officials said she allowed biology students to prick themselves with lancing needles…

To the mom who thought  it was cool for her kids to dress up like Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for Halloween, we’re glad karma…

President Barack Obama’s approval rating is the lowest it’s been since he took office in 2008. According to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 51…

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At the age of 21 Dawn Kum moved to California to figure out what she wanted to be. A recent college grad, she was looking for a job as a dietician. Her uncle, a teacher, suggested she follow in his footsteps. Eventually, she got a job teaching at an elementary school in South Central Los […]