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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The lawyer for a black high school student who said he was beaten and wrongly arrested by three white city police officers told a jury Tuesday that the police version of events is a "fairy tale." J. Kerrington Lewis, the attorney for Jordan Miles, 20, opened the civil rights case with Miles' […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — FBI agents staged a middle-of-the-night raid Wednesday at the home of Trenton's mayor, whose two-year administration of New Jersey's impoverished capital city has been marked by accusations of nepotism and reckless spending. Mayor Tony Mack, 46, emerging later in the morning from his home, denied any wrongdoing. "We have not violated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says her husband hasn't yet decided on a running mate. Ann Romney told ABC News in an interview taped Wednesday that that the campaign is "not quite there yet" on the final decision. She says discussions about vice presidential candidates took place last week […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama was the first presidential candidate to raise more than $100 million in a month and in 2008 was the first to forgo public money for his campaign. Now, he faces the very real threat of being the first president to be outspent by a challenger. Obama, who four years ago […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 33-year-old man convicted of carjacking and shooting to death a suburban Dallas stockbroker could on Wednesday become the first person in Texas to be executed using a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials announced last week they were modifying a three-drug execution procedure used […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A sergeant charged with sexually assaulting female recruits at the Texas Air Force base where U.S. airmen go through basic training is a "consummate predator," a military prosecutor told jurors Tuesday at the outset of the officer's court-martial. Staff Sgt. Luis Walker, who faces the most serious charges in a burgeoning […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A lawyer for a Native American man who claims the letters KKK were carved into his stomach during surgery has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the South Dakota hospital where the operation took place, the hospital's board of directors and others. YouTube videos featuring 69-year-old Vern Traversie, a […]

A day after Obama 2012 released a stinging web video of Mitt Romney singing, “America the Beautiful,” off-key over subtitles focusing on Romney’s alleged outsourcing of jobs, the Romney campaign attempted a swift redirect. Today, they released a video of President Obama singing the 1972 Al Green hit song “Let’s Stay Together” featuring accusations of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76. Raspberry had prostate cancer and died at his home in Washington, his wife, Sondra Raspberry, told The Post. A Post spokeswoman confirmed his death. Raspberry, […]

Got questions for the dietician? Text them to “646464” (OHOHOH). —- The meat-focused, heavy fat and sugar diet that many African-Americans consume is often blamed on “soul food,” but the roots of a true African-based diet are plant-based. Even through World War II, many black Americans who survived the Great Depression and food-rationing during the […]

President Obama didn’t have to do it. He didn’t have to release his long-form birth certificate. He could have just ignored the head-hurting ridiculousness from people who, despite all evidence and common sense, persisted in believing that he was a non-citizen; an illegitimate trickster who had pulled off what would be the greatest scam in […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a bar in the hometown of the University of Alabama, wounding multiple people, police said Tuesday. A total of 17 people were being treated at DCH Regional Medical Center, hospital spokesman Brad Fisher told The Associated Press. Four of the victims have been admitted to the […]