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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they hope murder charges will be filed soon in the shooting death of a 15-year-old Chicago girl who performed at events for President Barack Obama‘s inauguration. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says he hopes prosecutors file charges Monday in the death of Hadiya Pendleton. Police say they took two men […]
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — A $1 million reward for a fugitive ex-police officer wanted in the slayings of three people took authorities to a San Fernando Valley home improvement store but so far prompted no credible leads in the search for Christopher Dorner. The manhunt for him, coupled with the need for added security at […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A police spokesman says three people were shot at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del., and a suspect is in custody. Wilmington police Cpl. Jamaine Crawford says two women and a man were shot early Monday and that the man hit was a security guard. Crawford says he does […]
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. (AP)— A dollar store employee has been arrested for simple battery after whipping a customer’s child with a belt. WMAZ-TV reports surveillance cameras inside a Wrightsville dollar store recorded an 8-year-old boy running around the store and eventually throwing a cookie jar at 39-year-old Emilia Graciela Bell. Authorities say Bell took off her […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March. The […]
There is no argument that over the course of history many of this nation’s gun-control laws were intended, at least in part, to keep them out of the hands of African Americans. During slavery, most certainly, enslaved people and freedmen were barred in the South from owning guns. After the Civil War, the Union army […]
Charlie Batch isn’t a household name among NFL fans. But the 15-year veteran Pittsburgh Steelers backup quarterback joins some of the NFL’s biggest names as the 2012 recipient of the Byron “Whizzer’’ White Award. The award, presented annually by the NFL Players Association, honors work in the community and goes to the NFL player who […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunfire wounded four people on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street on Saturday night as a costumed crowd partied amid the countdown to Mardi Gras, sending people running, according to police and bystander accounts. In a video taken by a witness and released by police Sunday, four shots ring out rapidly, followed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party’s problems with minority voters have preoccupied strategists since November, and it’s possible those difficulties will persist or worsen. But an opening for marked improvements in GOP-minority relations may be at hand, or at least close by. Republican leaders would have to make some timely decisions and get a few […]
According to various news sources, former Ill. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has reportedly signed a plea deal that will send him to prison for “significant time.” It was reported earlier this week that Jackson was considering signing a plea deal but according to today’s reports, the deal is official. The deal’s details have not been […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Soon after her surgery, Susan Harrison had a string of infections that caused intense pain, leaving her weak and unable to pick up and play actively with her young grandchildren. The discomfort and fatigue often kept her from her job as a kindergarten classroom assistant. For years, Harrison thought it was just […]
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Police spent all night searching the snowy mountains of Southern California but were unable to find the former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job. Authorities planned a midmorning Friday news conference about 80 miles […]
