Poll: spend more,tax less legalize pot
By EMILY SWANSON WASHINGTON — Americans want lower taxes and more government spending both at once, although their support for spending more tax dollars on …
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Engineer wants to turn dumb pavement into a smart I70
PHOTO COURTESY OF WERNERLAMPERT.COM By RICK MONTGOMERY The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The following is about infrastructure. Don’t nod off just yet. …
Mo’ne Davis throws into history at 13
Fairytales, in the form of a 70 mile per hour fastball, do come true. Just ask American teenager and athlete Mo’ne Davis. The Disney Channel …
Overtown filmmaker displays his video at White House Film Festival
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTHA WHISBY WELLS MIAMI — A rising young filmmaker in South Florida who is making strides in the industry has a …
Rev. Willie Barrow, front-line civil rights fighter, dies
PHOTO COURTESY OF AYEAROFWOMEN.COM CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of …
Mass grave found as UN says IS group suspected of genocide
By VIVIAN SALAMA BAGHDAD — More than a dozen bodies were unearthed from a mass grave near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Thursday, as a …
SC State trustees vote to fire president
By JEFFREY COLLINS PHOTO COURTESY OF twitter.com Associated Press ORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State University trustees fired the school’s suspended president Thomas Elzey …
1943 deaths of 17 men at Panhandle range largely overlooked due to race
Photo courtesy of defense.gov Associated Press EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Seventeen African-American men who died in a 1943 explosion at the …
03/19/2015
City will switch off lights to observe Earth Hour FORT LAUDERDALE — The city of Fort Lauderdale asks residents to support Earth Hour 2015 and its mission …
Campaign aims to increase awareness to end child deaths
PHOTO COURTESY OF nichd.nih.gov By BOB LaMENDOLA Special to South Florida Times BROWARD COUNTY — When children under age 4 died in Broward …