Mother of 2 develops startup business board game
DETROIT (AP) _ When Ida Byrd-Hill began thinking out an idea for an educational board game involving inventions, it wasn't out of necessity.
Obama, family attend ‘Christmas in Washington’
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Obamas are celebrating the holiday season with musical stars Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green and Jennifer Hudson at the annual “Christmas …
Northeast states cut heating aid to poor
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits …
Police: Man “blacked out” as he stabbed girlfriend
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ An arrest report says the man who confessed to stabbing his girlfriend to death told investigators he “blacked out from anger'' …
Tea Party illustration draws racism claims
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) _ A Hutchinson tea party group says its depiction of a skunk as the new symbol of the U.S. president is satire …
Obama beseeches supporters to stick with him
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Imploring supporters to stick with him, President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that his re-election is not “a slam dunk'' because of understandable …
Bowl team graduation rates up, racial gap persists
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A study released Monday of the 70 Football Bowl Subdivision schools that will participate in the upcoming college football bowl season …
Settlement won’t prevent Fla. foreclosure hearing
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Parties in a Florida mortgage foreclosure lawsuit focusing on allegations of tainted documents will get their day in the Florida Supreme …
Fla. school superintendents oppose FCAT proposal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ The state's school superintendents are opposing Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson's proposal to raise scores needed to pass Florida's standardized test.
Who’s the person in God’s mirror
Michael Jackson had a hit song in 1988, Man in the Mirror, in which he sang that we’re all “victims of a selfish kind of …