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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says a GOP Senate candidate's comments on rape are "offensive." Obama said at a news conference Monday that comments by Missouri Congressman Todd Akin do not make sense. Obama said, "Rape is rape" and said the idea of distinguishing among types of rape "doesn't make sense to the American […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man whose hands were cuffed behind him in the back seat of an Arkansas patrol car shot himself in the right temple with a handgun he apparently concealed from arresting officers, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed the death as a suicide. The state crime lab […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dozens of supporters have gathered outside the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was slain to pray for a young man who was fatally shot in the back of an Arkansas patrol car. The vigil Monday night outside the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., came hours after police released […]
Edwin Eddie Ellis served 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, but he never let that get in the way of living a life of purpose. In prison, Ellis became an advocate for prison education and, following his release, went on to have a distinguished career and helped other formerly incarcerated […]
Branding officers who reigned bullets on her mentally ill and disabled son in the form of as many as 46 shots in as few as five seconds “a firing squad dressed in police uniforms,” the grief-stricken yet demonstratively angst mother of Milton Hall is demanding answers as to why Saginaw law enforcement leaped at being […]
SEATTLE (AP) — George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee airmen and a longtime usher at University of Washington and Seattle Seahawks games, has died at age 88. His wife, Doris, confirmed Monday that he died early Sunday morning in Seattle. Hickman was one of the country's first black military pilots and ground crew members […]
On Friday, culture critic Touré found himself apologizing for a comment he made on Thursday during a political discussion on cable news channel, MSNBC. As previously reported, Touré – one of the co-hosts of the network’s “The Cycle” – accused Mitt Romney of “using racial coding” to “other” President Barack Obama with “really deep stereotypes […]
STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) — James Davis is fighting to keep the remains of his late wife right where he dug her grave: In the front yard of his home, just a few feet from the porch. Davis said he was only abiding by Patsy Ruth Davis' wishes when he buried her outside their log home […]
AVONDALE, La. (AP) — Authorities in greater New Orleans say two young children have been recovered unharmed from a car where a male driver and female passenger were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds. Spokesman Glen T. Boyd says the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office received the report around 1 a.m. EDT Saturday about a car […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of black journalists says it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. The National Association of Black Journalists said Friday that the Commission on Presidential Debates needed to stop treating black reporters as if they were unqualified, invisible or both. […]
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Officers found a woman and her two young sons dead in their suburban Detroit home Thursday when they went there to notify the family of a fiery, fatal crash in Indiana. Police said they went to the home after being notified of a man's death in a crash near […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who volunteered at a gay community center had a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and a box of ammunition when he said "I don't like your politics" and shot a security guard at the headquarters of a conservative lobbying group, authorities revealed Thursday. Floyd Lee Corkins, II, was ordered held […]
