All posts on February, 2009

STICKY SITUATION Jacqueline Tufts, 47, was suspended from her $70,000-a-year job as the executive director of the affordable housing organization, New Visions Community Development Corp., …

MIAMI – In what can only be described as “keeping it real,” ex-felons, mothers of murdered sons, rapper Luther “Luke” Campbell and others joined clergy, …

Shirley Johnson has the NAACP in her blood. The woman who joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as a youth is …

OPA-LOCKA – A city with Arabian-themed street names such as Ali Baba Avenue, Sabur Lane and Sultan Avenue soon will have a street that bears …

FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) _ The first of about 8,000 lawsuits blaming the health problems and deaths of Florida smokers on tobacco companies went to trial …

The Florida Times-Union JACKSONVILLE (AP) _ In the entire history of pick-up lines, Bill Thompson has come up with one that's quite possibly never been …

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ Serena Williams returned to No. 1 in the world rankings for the third time in her career following her Australian Open …

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Scurlock Jr. remembers his grandfather – always clad in a suit and tie – meticulously posing subjects and setting lights to …