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Facebook and Twitter photos have emerged from President Obama’s visit with family members who lost loved ones during Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The president managed to put some smiles on the faces of grieving family members before his speech at an interfaith vigil held Sunday night at Newtown High […]
DETROIT (AP) — The founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn’t health care but a “gravely immoral” practice. He filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court. It also lists as a plaintiff Domino’s Farms, a […]
DETROIT (AP) — The founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn’t health care but a “gravely immoral” practice. He filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court. It also lists as a plaintiff Domino’s Farms, a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is vowing to use “whatever power this office holds” to safeguard the nation’s children, raising the prospect that he will pursue policy changes to stem gun violence in the wake of an elementary school massacre. “Because what choice do we have?” a somber Obama said at a Sunday evening […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida grand jury has indicted a man on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a teenager following an argument over loud music coming from the teen’s car. The Florida Times-Union reports officials in the state attorney’s office said Thursday they won’t be seeking the death penalty against 46-year-old […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.‘s March on Washington for Civil Rights were 100 years apart, but both changed the nation and expanded freedoms. Beginning Friday, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is presenting a walk back in time through two eras. A new […]
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — For President Barack Obama, it was another sorrowful visit to another grieving community full of broken hearts from unimaginable violence. The spot, this time, was Newtown, Conn., where on Friday a man opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. The toll: 26 dead, including 20 boys and girls just 6 or […]
Cheryl Shepherd, the mother of KC Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher allegedly told police her son argued with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins over their daughter’s paternity before he shot her multiple times and killed her, before killing himself. Shepherd was present in their home when her son killed Perkins. According to the New York Post, she […]
Cheryl Shepherd, the mother of KC Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher allegedly told police her son argued with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins over their daughter’s paternity before he shot her multiple times and killed her, before killing himself. Shepherd was present in their home when her son killed Perkins. According to the New York Post, she […]
An African-American ESPN2 contributor, Rob Parker, stepped in it Thursday when he called Washington Football Team quarterback Robert Griffin III “kind of black,” and said of the athlete, “He’s not one of us.” The comments were made by columnist Rob Parker, who was appearing on the morning show “First Take.” Griffin said in an interview […]
Mignon Francois wanted to help her husband lift their family out of debt. The couple and their six children were living in two rooms of a condemned house they were rehabbing in Nashville. The water and electricity were turned off regularly for nonpayment and dinner was often Ramen noodles. Francois said her husband “looked gray […]
DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — An inexperienced health care caseworker who visited a client at his home knew there was something that made her “very uncomfortable” about the 53-year-old man, even writing in his file that two people should visit him in the future. Yet 25-year-old Stephanie Ross went alone to Lucious Smith‘s apartment Monday […]
