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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 …

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 …

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 …

Photo courtesy of defense.gov    Associated Press   EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Seventeen African-American men who died in a 1943 explosion at the …

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 …

PHOTO COURTESY OF nichd.nih.gov   By BOB LaMENDOLA Special to South Florida Times   BROWARD COUNTY — When children under age 4 died in Broward …

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and GEORGE JAHN LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A senior Iranian official suggested Tuesday that Iran is nearing a preliminary deal with the U.S and five world powers …

By STEVE PEOPLES and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has created an exploratory committee to run for president, becoming the …

PHOTO COURTESY OF peter Pettus / Libraryofcongress.gov On March 7, 1965, courage and villainy collided on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when John …

Spreading between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the lush green peninsula of South Florida sits like a precious emerald with the Caribbean …