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D.C.’s nonvoting delegate to Congress said it is time for the Mayor Vincent Gray to clear the air concerning the rumors about the corruption investigation of his 2010 election campaign. “Vincent Gray is a friend of longstanding who I have always known to have high professional and ethical standards,” Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D) said in a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo Bank will pay at least $175 million to settle accusations that it discriminated against African-American and Hispanic borrowers in violation of fair-lending laws, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Wells Fargo, the nation's largest residential home mortgage originator, allegedly engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and […]
Florida A&M University trustees are set to meet Monday to start mapping the institution’s next steps of leadership with the announced resignation Wednesday of President James Ammons, officials said. A FAMU alum credited with turning the university’s finances around in his five-year tenure, Ammons has been under fire since the November death of Robert Champion […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Ex-neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman called police at least six times in the months before he shot Trayvon Martin to death, reporting activity as benign as kids playing in the street to detailing the description of a suspected burglar. The documents and recordings released Thursday point to Zimmerman's growing frustration with […]
Vice President Joe Biden Thursday gave a raucous rebuke of likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s NAACP speech, defending the health care law and warning that a Romney White House would be a threat to civil rights and voting rights. Biden reeled off President Barack Obama’s first-term accomplishments, from killing Osama bin Laden to approving […]
Consider this, dear readers, a quintessential rock and hard place tale. The hard place: all those Chicago citizens caught in that city’s violence this year. As of June 30, some 261 people have been murdered in the Windy City. That’s a 38 percent increase over 2011. And Chicago’s most homicidal have, it seems, only just […]
Pressure is mounting against Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray as an investigation into a corruption scandal involving his 2010 election campaign intensifies and three members of the D.C. Council called Wednesday for the mayor’s resignation. Jeanne Clark Harris, 75, a public relations consultant and longtime friend of Gray’s, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed are suing the university. Robert Champion's parents say they're filing the lawsuit in Orlando on Wednesday, more than six months after their son died after being hazed aboard a bus parked outside an Orlando hotel. Eleven FAMU band […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A tiny blood-sucking parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs has been named after Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley. Arkansas State University marine biologist Paul Sikkel discovered the parasite off the U.S. Virgin Islands a decade ago but it was only recently unveiled as "Gnathia marleyi" as an homage to […]
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A California yoga instructor has been fired for her disapproving stink-eye glare at a Facebook employee using a cellphone in class. Alice Van Ness, who was hired to teach hour-long yoga sessions at Facebook's Menlo Park campus, says she tells students before class to turn off their cellphones. But a […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As a co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, her politically active family's sole Democrat, and a sister with three brothers, Laura Ricketts is comfortable being the odd woman out. But it has not escaped her notice that lesbians such as her are in the minority at political events for gay donors, whether […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Politicians will be excluded from speaking at this year's Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero, following a year in which families have expressed concern that political struggles are hindering progress on a 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center site. The foundation that controls the 9/11 memorial told family members […]
