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Charlotte, NC – The Democratic National Convention is over, but the fire ignited is still present in the streets of the host city, Charlotte, North Carolina. President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination in front of the entire nation, last night. And one of the major platforms highlighted in his speech was the importance […]
Khadeeja was driving to work one day when a friend called to say she had spotted Khadeeja’s daughter, Azariah, on the streets. “I turned the car around and made a detour and I see her walking toward me,” Khadeeja recalled. “I had to park the car and run after her. I got her but I […]
Black voter turnout will be strong, but not likely to increase much over 2008, partly because of voter ID laws in several states designed to discourage voting among likely Democratic voters, according to a report released Thursday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. “Nationally, black turnout increased 4.4 percentage points in 2008 […]
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) – A 76-year-old Anderson man is walking the streets wearing a sign begging for help to get his wife a kidney transplant. Larry Swilling says he didn't know what else to do. The sandwich board reads "Need Kidney 4 Wife." Swilling says he and Jimmie Sue have been married 56 years. He […]
BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a Massachusetts magic store has been sentenced to two years in prison for making more than $560,000 disappear from a longtime customer's credit card account. Harry Levy of Lexington was also sentenced in federal court in Boston on Thursday to two years of probation and was ordered to pay […]
Florida Police shot a man who was on the run after his girlfriend's daughter was reported pregnant and sexually assaulted. Gregory Johns, 42, was shot dead in a motel in Treasure Island, Fla. A week prior, his girlfriend brought her 11-year-old daughter to the hospital after complaining of stomach pains when doctors discovered the child […]
Bishop Eddie Long’s wife, Vanessa, recently gave a heart-to-heart speech before the congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Long addressed her trials and tribulations and the “storm” she had to endure during Bishop Long’s sexual misconduct crisis in 2010. Earlier this year, she filed papers to divorce him, but later changed her mind. […]
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — A student who was in an Illinois classroom where shots were fired says his teacher seized the opportunity to tackle the shooter while he set his gun down. No one was injured in the Friday morning incident at Normal Community High School in Normal. Police say a 14-year-old student is in […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police say a man charged with killing one person and critically injuring another in a dispute over a fence gave "an account of what happened" after being arrested. Lt. Barry Wilkerson wouldn't say whether 55-year-old Mahmoud Yousef Hindi confessed. Wilkerson says investigators are trying to confirm the details of Hindi's […]
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — President Barack Obama says news that private employers created just 96,000 jobs last month is "not good enough" and the economy needs to churn out jobs faster. Obama commented Friday while campaigning in New Hampshire came as the government said unemployment fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, largely […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are working feverishly for an increasingly smaller but crucial slice of the electorate — white, working-class voters. These clock-punching voters — from Iowa's tiny manufacturing cities to Virginia coal country to pockets of Ohio reliant on the auto industry — are considered […]
LONDON (AP) — Mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease, a study by leading European cancer agencies suggests. The added radiation from mammograms and other types of tests with chest radiation might be especially harmful […]
