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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says he has imposed new union contracts aimed at saving the cash-strapped city more than $100 million annually. Bing says in a statement that Wednesday is a "tough" but "necessary" day for Detroit and that the city no longer can operate in excess of its expenses. The new […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An inmate has testified that one of two Tulsa men charged in the killings of three black people admitted to his role in the shootings. Tulsa jail inmate Timothy Hoey testified Wednesday during a preliminary hearing for 19-year-old Jake England and 33-year-old Alvin Watts. The two are charged with killing three […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mayor Ed Lee said he wanted to spark a discussion about a spike in violent crime when he mentioned that he was considering a controversial stop-and-frisk policy used by police in New York, Philadelphia and some other big cities. Instead, he has heard an outcry from city officials, civil liberties groups […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The lawyer for a black high school student who said he was beaten and wrongly arrested by three white city police officers told a jury Tuesday that the police version of events is a "fairy tale." J. Kerrington Lewis, the attorney for Jordan Miles, 20, opened the civil rights case with Miles' […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — FBI agents staged a middle-of-the-night raid Wednesday at the home of Trenton's mayor, whose two-year administration of New Jersey's impoverished capital city has been marked by accusations of nepotism and reckless spending. Mayor Tony Mack, 46, emerging later in the morning from his home, denied any wrongdoing. "We have not violated […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 33-year-old man convicted of carjacking and shooting to death a suburban Dallas stockbroker could on Wednesday become the first person in Texas to be executed using a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials announced last week they were modifying a three-drug execution procedure used […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76. Raspberry had prostate cancer and died at his home in Washington, his wife, Sondra Raspberry, told The Post. A Post spokeswoman confirmed his death. Raspberry, […]
President Obama didn’t have to do it. He didn’t have to release his long-form birth certificate. He could have just ignored the head-hurting ridiculousness from people who, despite all evidence and common sense, persisted in believing that he was a non-citizen; an illegitimate trickster who had pulled off what would be the greatest scam in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Actress and activist Jada Pinkett Smith is urging Congress to step up the fight against human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. The actress testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday that she plans to launch a campaign to raise awareness and spur action against human trafficking and slavery. She […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the country's oldest civil rights groups says President Barack Obama may have a tougher time winning at least three battleground states in November should black voter turnout fall at least 5 percentage points below the record levels that helped to put him in the White House. Black voter turnout of […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin shooting case says a motion by the defense asking the judge to disqualify himself is without merit. Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda was responding to the defense's motion filed last week. In his response Tuesday, he called the request "absurd on its face." De la […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's nothing like a little booing to help the first couple overcome their shyness. President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were taking in Monday night's USA Basketball exhibition game when the Verizon Center's "Kiss Cam" turned its eye their way. Their image on the huge arena screen prompted the crowd to […]
