OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ Suing police officers is good business for civil rights lawyer John Burris. Over the past 30 years, the former prosecutor has …

FORT LAUDERDALE – A substitute teacher at Sunrise Middle School has been arrested after allegedly pushing a student into a TV, leaving him with an …

HONOLULU (AP) _ President Barack Obama's sister has been given a civil rights award in Honolulu.

NEW YORK (AP) _ “Thriller'' a Broadway musical? Producer James L. Nederlander says he has acquired the rights for a stage version of Jackson's iconic …

MIAMI (AP) _ Two people were killed and seven injured during a shooting Friday night in a residential area in northwest Miami, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and forever changed the course of American history.

At exactly 12:05 p.m. on Jan. 20, the 44th president of the United States was sworn into office.  All the while, I was shivering – …

LAUDERHILL – Third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students at Martin Luther King Elementary School gathered in the school’s mall area for its Inaugural Ball. There, they …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Residents who call the Sunshine State home braved Washington D.C.'s colder temperatures on Tuesday to see the swearing in of President Barack …

How long will the glow of Tuesday’s history-making inauguration last? That was one of the many questions posed to the congregation and visitors of all …