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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jay Ratliff is free on bond after his arrest Tuesday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. The 31-year-old nose tackle was arrested shortly after midnight after his pickup truck sideswiped a semitrailer truck on Texas 114 in eastern Grapevine, 20 miles northwest of Dallas. No one was […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams is out of the Australian Open after losing her quarterfinal match 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 to 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens. Williams appeared to hurt her lower back while attempting to pull up short of the net during the eighth game of the second set. She called for a trainer after […]
Whether it’s your boss, co-worker or workload that drives you crazy, employers can no longer penalize you for venting on social media. The New York Times reports that federal regulators recognize workplace complaints and comments on sites like Facebook and Twitter as protected speech. Although it may irritate coworkers and superiors, it is illegal for […]
Civil rights activists in Mississippi on Tuesday demanded that the brazen, cold-hearted hit-and-run killing of a 61-year-old Sunday school teacher be investigated under the theory that race may have been an overriding factor. Johnny Lee Butts, 61, was struck from behind by a runaway vehicle and dragged more than 170 feet to his death last […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Luis Resendiz hid quietly in a small room with dozens of classmates after gunshots erupted in a courtyard on his college campus north of Houston. There his mind quickly drifted to last month’s Connecticut elementary school massacre that left 20 children dead, wondering if another gunman was on a rampage on the […]
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A North Carolina college student hit by police gunfire during a shooting outside the Empire State Building argued in a lawsuit Tuesday that the police department and the officers involved need better training to deal with such confrontations in the future. Nine bystanders, including 32-year-old Chenin Duclos, were hit by police […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As crowds descended and the inauguration unfolded, a few museum curators in Washington kept watch for symbols and messages that would make history. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open during President Barack Obama‘s second term, and one section will feature a large display about the first […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge is allowing the New York Police Department to temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while the city appeals her decision. Judge Shira Scheindlin on Tuesday lifted the order she issued earlier this month concerning a program aimed at thousands of privately owned buildings in the Bronx. […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Georges Exantus thought he’d never dance again. He was lucky just to be alive. The earthquake three years ago in Haiti’s capital flattened the apartment where he was living and he spent three days trapped under jagged rubble. After friends dug him out, doctors amputated his right leg just below the […]
Another young black man’s life was cut short this weekend when he was fatally shot at a North Oak Cliff Shell station on early Sunday morning. According to a Dallas police report, two people had an argument around 1:40 a.m. at the gas station, located in the 400 block of S. R.L. Thornton Freeway, near […]
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman was sentenced Tuesday to 85 years in prison in the dehydration death of her 10-year-old stepson whom she denied of water for days during record-high temperatures. Tina Marie Alberson, 44, was convicted Friday of injury to a child, a second-degree felony, in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. The appeals court panel Tuesday turned away the bid from a medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access. Last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a petition by […]
