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BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say a man has been shot in the student center on the campus of Morgan State University. Police say the gunman is still at large. Baltimore and Morgan State University police say the shooting was reported about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday. Baltimore police say the victim was not a student. The campus […]
A New Jersey football player quit his team because the coach banned him from wearing pink gloves during a game. Julian Connerson decided to no longer play for the Egg Harbor City Crusaders, a youth league since he could not wear pink gloves commemorating his mom’s battle with breast cancer. On Saturday, his coach Paul […]
Few Republican lawmakers sided with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Wednesday as he blamed President Barack Obama for the embassy attack in Libya that left the U.S. ambassador to the country dead – except for Rep. Allen West of Florida. Referring to the Arab Spring protests that toppled oppressive regimes in Libya, Egypt Tunisia and […]
Some people make me ashamed to share the same species with them. Unfortunately for me, I share not only a species, but also the same first name with one Gregory Johns. OK, I don’t share that anymore. Johns met his end recently at, appropriately enough, the Trail’s End Motel in Treasure Island, Fla. […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The public teachers' strike that has halted classwork and upset family routines across Chicago ground into a third day Wednesday with some movement reported by union and school board negotiators but no sign of an imminent deal. Union leaders said they will meet Wednesday morning to review a new, comprehensive proposal from […]
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said. North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowledges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned attacks on a U.S. consulate in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three American members of his staff. He ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts around the world. In a White House statement, Obama said he had ordered "all necessary resources to support […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday. They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night […]
Known for her curvy physique, tennis champion, Serena Williams who is listed at 5'10 and 160lbs has come out to defend junior tennis star, Taylor Townsend. This week a story broke that the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) reportedly denied Townsend a trip to the U.S. Open Juniors because they believe she is overweight. Townsend is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday the United States would "work with the Libyan government to bring to justice" those who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi. "Make no mistake. Justice will be done," he said in a Rose Garden appearance at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's something most politicians can "like": Facebook friends played a big role in getting hundreds of thousands of people to vote in 2010, a new scientific study claims. Facebook researchers and scientists at the University of California, San Diego conducted a massive online experiment in the mid-term congressional election to test and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks Tuesday in familiar but subdued ceremonies that put grieving families ahead of politicians and suggested it's time to move on after a decade of remembrance. As in past years, thousands gathered at the World Trade Center site in New […]
