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About a third of the seats were unfilled in a convention center ballroom where Donald Trump spoke in South Carolina on Wednesday.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — At Wesleyan University, known for its liberal culture, a campaign to shut down the campus newspaper is coming from an unlikely source: its students. The student government for the liberal arts school is weighing a petition to strip The Wesleyan Argus of funding after some students objected to an opinion piece […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The police shooting of a man in a wheelchair was “an execution,” a relative said Thursday, but authorities described a different scenario, saying the man had a handgun when officers shot him to death. The shooting happened in Wilmington on Wednesday around 3 p.m. Police said in a brief statement that […]
Remember when dance-offs were just friendly competitions where dancers battled to be the best person or team with the best moves? Well that went out the window as two rival high school drill teams went in on each other with a dance-off after a recent football game in Dallas, Texas over someone getting their hair […]
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of trying to drown his children could face new charges after one daughter died in a hospital. The 3-year-old daughter of Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter died Wednesday, three days after her father tried to drown her and her sister in an apartment complex pond, police said. […]
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged into a legal morass with the potential to be branded sex offenders for life. The Fayetteville teens were accused of being both the victims of child pornography and the perpetrators of the […]
An 11-year-old boy had an opportunity to test out his aspirations to become a physician when he helped his mother deliver his baby brother. On Tuesday, Kenyarda Dukes realized she was in active labor and there was no time to get to a hospital. Her son James was the only person home at the time […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments in Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. All times local: 12:10 p.m. President Barack Obama has given Pope Francis gifts symbolizing peace and service to the needy. Gift exchanges are customary between U.S. officials and foreign dignitaries. Obama gave Francis a sculpture of an ascending dove that incorporates […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be the next President of the United States and she wants Black voters to know that if they support her, she will return that support when she’s in the nation’s highest office. To that end, she talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show for an unprecedented conversation with […]
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina man accused of trying to drown his two young daughters initially told residents of an apartment complex he believed his 7-year-old son had been kidnapped and needed help finding him. Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter flagged down passers-by at the Audubon Lake apartments Sunday night saying he was searching […]
Months after Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, the dispatcher in the case, who alerted authorities that a male outside a recreation center had a gun, has resigned. WKYC-TV reports that Cleveland Police Dispatcher Beth Mandl failed to tell police that the person who called 911 about Rice thought that the […]
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The anguish in the man’s voice on the 911 call was clear. He was telling the dispatcher on the other end of the line that he had just tried to drown his children in a pond and he was so distraught and disoriented that he couldn’t describe where he was. “Please […]
