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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A city already reeling from the conviction of two high school football players in the rape of a 16-year-old girl will back a wide-ranging probe that could target adults, including coaches, who failed to report the allegation initially, the city’s top official said Monday. Residents of Steubenville want to see justice […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent suicide of a college student discovered weapons and explosive devices in a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando early Monday, and hundreds of students were evacuated, though the school said there was no immediate threat. University police were called to the dorm around […]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it will open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the use of force by Cleveland’s police department, whose officers fired 137 shots at the end of a massive police chase last fall, killing two likely unarmed people. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said the investigation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to fill yet another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack Obama is set to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to be the next secretary of labor, the White House says. If confirmed by the Senate, Perez, who has been head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for 3½ years, […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn’t graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma. The News Journal in Mansfield reports the Mount Vernon superintendent presented Reba Williams with the diploma Wednesday at her apartment in Columbus. She even got to wear a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal court of appeals to throw out a defamation case brought against him by former government employee Shirley Sherrod, saying the lawsuit violates the blogger’s right to freedom of speech. Sherrod was ousted from her job as an Agriculture Department […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections. The high court will hear arguments Monday over the legality of Arizona’s […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — It’s been eight years since Maryland executed a convicted killer, but that could be the last time if the General Assembly, as expected, gives final passage this week to a bill to abolish capital punishment. Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, has been pushing for the change since his first year in […]
Tom Joyner Morning Show correspondent Jacque Reid goes “Inside Her Story” with attorney J. Wyndal Gordon about his four clients, which includes two Howard University seniors and their respective mothers about their suit against the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) for not allowing them into the sorority and for hazing. Howard University seniors, Lauren Cofield […]
A group of New Jersey officers from the Irvington Police Department are being investigated for creating rap videos, which feature them yelling homophobic slurs and threatening rivals with violence. In one video for a song called “Temper Like An Alcoholic,” artist “Gat The Great“ (pictured) carries a gun on his hip; another man even swings a […]
Lashinna Burger pleaded for the court to keep her ex-boyfriend alive. Sounds reasonable right? Except, her ex-boyfriend is currently in prison for beating their then 2-year-old son, Elijah Burger, to death with a hairbrush, toothbrush, and belt back in 2009. According to NBC Charlotte, Burger says she has made peace with her son’s killer, Andre […]
DETROIT (AP) — The turnaround expert who represented Chrysler during its successful restructuring is taking on one of the toughest fiscal tasks anywhere in the country: Fixing Detroit. Kevyn Orr, hired Thursday as Detroit’s emergency manager, brings expertise from his work at one of the world’s largest law firms plus the threat of Chapter 9 […]
