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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House staff is spilling details about Obama family life, from the first family's fitness regime to their eating habits. White House chef Sam Kass and personal trainer Cornell McClellan answered questions about working for the Obamas as they read to more than 100 children Wednesday at the Department of Education. […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The president of Florida A&M University submitted his resignation Wednesday, the same day the university was sued by parents of a drum major who died during a hazing. It was unclear if the two events were related. James Ammons announced the resignation, which takes effect Oct. 11, in a letter to […]
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continues to evade all comment regarding his undeniable involvement and personal endorsement in a system of privately run halfway houses. Initially designed and sold to supplement the state’s general prison system, it now seems to have dangerously spiraled out of control, mutating into a network of mismanaged platforms where drugs, […]
It is impossible to tell K. D. Hardy’s story without talking about his mother. In addition to giving birth to him, you could say also that Patricia Hardy helped re-birth her son. And she did it with a big dose of tough love. The family lived in Birmingham, where she worked as a medical secretary […]
They’re at it again. Conservatives and Republicans who seem determined to keep President Barack Obama and members of his administration away from school buildings, as if they were former Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky, voiced objections to First Lady Michelle Obama headlining a voter registration event Tuesday at a Miami-Dade County public school building. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin is in a safe house that is being protected by his security team. George Zimmerman was released Friday after posting bail for the second time on a second-degree murder charge. His attorney said Sunday he was in Seminole County in central […]
(AP) DETROIT – A woman celebrating the weekend before her 25th birthday was fatally shot Sunday when she hugged an off-duty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer's service weapon to fire, according to police and her mother. Adaisha Miller would have turned 25 on Monday, according to her mother, Yolanda McNair. […]
HOUSTON (AP) — The head of the NAACP says the group's fight against conservative-backed voter ID laws that have been passed in several states is akin to the great civil rights battles of the 1960s. Benjamin Todd Jealous, the CEO and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told delegates at […]
DETROIT (AP) — The death of a woman shot in the chest after she hugged an off-duty police officer from behind during a party is a tragic, unfathomable accident, Detroit's police chief said Monday. Adaisha Miller was dancing and celebrating what would have been her 25th birthday the next day, when she hugged the officer […]
Rudy Eugene, the “Miami Zombie,” was not high on bath salts when he attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo and chewed off 75 percent of his face on May 26, the medical examiner found last week. After marijuana was the only drug in Eugene’s body experts are investigating what drove him to carry out the horrifying attack […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The mother of Trayvon Martin says she was disappointed by a Florida judge's decision to give George Zimmerman another chance at posting bond and leaving prison before trial. A judge granted Zimmerman bond Thursday for a second time, setting it at $1 million. His previous $150,000 bond was revoked after prosecutors […]
HOUSTON (AP) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says its newest battle is really an old one. This year's NAACP national convention, which kicks off this weekend in Houston, is focusing on voter participation and the civil rights organization's efforts to fight what it sees as restrictive voting laws that have […]
