All posts on September, 2010

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – A Florida appeal court has rejected another challenge to an amendment that gives property tax breaks for primary homeowners.

WASHINGTON (AP)  – President Barack Obama is recognizing the contributions of historically black colleges and universities to the nation's education system and calling for their …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – A state commission looking at wrongful convictions heard Friday that bad identifications and the mishandling of evidence by authorities are the …

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – A recent report on attendance at a new civil rights museum shows that despite widespread publicity, fewer than 6 percent of the …

DAVIE – Offensive e-mails that have been circulated within the Wilton Manors police department have led to the police chief being put on hiatus from his …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal appeals court has sided with the computer software industry in its effort to squelch sales of second-hand programs covered …

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Officials in a western Pennsylvania school district are apologizing to parents after students at a local high school were accidentally shown “a …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -A circuit court judge ruled Florida voters should have the right to determine class sizes in their public schools.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Ronald W. Walters, a longtime political analyst and scholar at Howard University and the University of Maryland who was a leading expert …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Georgia congressman awarded his stepdaughter, a niece and an aide’s future wife college scholarships through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, making …