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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, with officials weighing whether to bust a hole in a levee to relieve some of the water that was spilling over a wall in a rural part of the state Wednesday. Rescues were carried out […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney and his wife, at the GOP convention in Florida while a hurricane was approaching Louisiana, were "happy to have a party with black people drowning." Company […]
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) — A 13-year-old Texas girl who authorities say was repeatedly sexually assaulted by 20 men and boys during a series of attacks two years ago cried Wednesday as a video of one of the encounters was played for jurors in the first case to go to trial. The girl, testifying under a […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who did yard work for the family of a missing 15-year-old Columbia girl has been charged with kidnapping her after her blood was found on duct tape near his home, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. The sheriff was holding out hope that Gabrielle Swainson will be found alive, […]
Thousands of students at two historically black colleges in New Orleans began leaving the Crescent City Monday as Hurricane Isaac approached from the Gulf, while others either sheltered in place or were bused to sister college campuses miles away. “We have told every student to activate their hurricane plan,” said Kenneth St. Charles, Xavier’s vice […]
So it seems that in this contest to beat President Obama, Republican contender Mitt Romney has decided to deal straight from the bottom of the deck. That’s where the race card tends to be. Republicans have been dealing that messy card since 1969, when President Nixon outlined his Southern strategy and in 1988, when George […]
PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A 15-year-old student has been charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder in a shooting on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school, authorities said Tuesday. Robert Wayne Gladden, Jr., was also charged with first-degree assault and was being held without bail at the Baltimore […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — "2016: Obama's America," a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama's political views, took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend. The film, written and narrated by conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza, argues that Obama was heavily influenced by what D'Souza calls the […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With Isaac bearing down on New Orleans, the city finds itself at a delicate moment in its rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina struck seven years ago. Private and government investment is fueling the push to overhaul some of the city's troubled but culturally rich neighborhoods near the French Quarter, where poor families […]
A Georgia mother has filed federal suit against the city of Pelham police department alleging wrongful death and gross civil rights violations in the death of her 17-year-old son. Fabian Avery died while in solitary confinement after prison guards placed him there as a means of ignoring his repeated pleas for medical assistance. Fabian Avery […]
PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A 15-year-old student opened fire on the first day of classes Monday at a Baltimore County high school, getting off two shots and wounding a classmate before being rushed by teachers, authorities said. Investigators do not believe the victim, a 17-year-old male, was targeted by the shooter, a 15-year-old who […]
Hitting the ground in Tampa Sunday with the threat of Isaac looming overhead, it was a normal day for many of the local residents in the town hosting the RNC convention. Sunday church service was on the agenda for many. In the Brandon Community of Tampa, a predominately African-American church boasted a sermon focusing on […]
