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Shaw University had double cause for celebration this spring. One year after a tornado swept through Raleigh, N.C. and hit the campus, damaging 27 buildings and six buildings destroying part or all of the roofs on six buildings, the university held a special “Open House” on the steps of the Willie E. Gary Student Center […]
The website that George Zimmerman set up to help raise money for his legal defense in Trayvon Martin’s shooting has been disabled. The website http://www.therealgeorgezimmerman was no longer functioning as of Tuesday. It was created almost two weeks ago by Zimmerman’s family to thank his supporters and to receive donations from anyone who wanted to […]
Police and California child welfare officials who visited Nadya Suleman’s home after someone claimed that her 14 children were living in squalor say they did not find evidence that the children are in any danger. La Habra police Sgt. Daniel Barnes says officers and Orange County Department of Family and Children’s Services officials examined Suleman’s […]
Offering riffs on Mick Jagger and reflections on race, President Barack Obama is capping a week devoted to courting young votes with a Rolling Stone magazine cover interview that segues from presidential musings on politics to foreign policy to pop culture. Sounding an election-year theme, Obama tells the magazine that Mitt Romney can’t disavow the […]
Pedaling past tornado-tossed homes and broken trees, Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson and about 100 bicyclists started a five-day, 300-mile bike trek across north Alabama on Tuesday to raise money for storm relief in the state. The ride — dubbed “Bo Bikes Bama” — will pass through some of the communities hit hardest by more […]
While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin’s slaying remains under scrutiny, as city commissioners want to wait for the results of a federal investigation to decide if they will accept Chief Bill Lee’s resignation. It could take months before Sanford city commissioners have the […]
George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin. His release from jail came less than a day before the Sanford City […]
In the end, Stanley will have his awful, violent revenge on Blanche. She will see it coming – she’ll struggle, her eyes will go wide like a deer’s and she’ll try to bolt. But he’ll get her and then he will surely break her. What the races are of the actors on stage is immaterial. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are ways that you can support the Trayvon Martin family and Foundation: Website: http://www.justicetm.org Mailing address: 200 S. Biscayne Blvd, Suite 505, Miami, FL. 33131 Email: Parkscrumpllc@gmail.com The donations are tax deductible. MIAMI (AP) — In a low-key event, George Zimmerman was released from a Florida jail on $150,000 bail as he […]
President Barack Obama wasn’t in Colombia when two dozen Secret Service agents and U.S. military personnel got liquored-up and sexed-up with some of Cartagena’s the ladies of the evening, but he surely had a hand in it, to hear some Republicans and conservatives tell it. A bunch of grown men with guns, those cool walkie-talkies […]
The search for a missing Missouri woman’s family has caused the loss of their entire life savings and home. A promising lead by a man about the whereabouts of Phoenix Coldon turned out to be a cruel hoax. “Unfortunately, we will now be losing our family home,” the missing woman’s mother, Goldia Coldon, told The […]
After spending a week in a jail cell by himself, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering Trayvon Martin stands a good chance of being granted bail Friday, despite the severity of the second-degree murder charge he faces. Whether George Zimmerman is allowed to leave the county as he awaits trial — and how he […]
