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PHOTO COURTESY OFTHE TANDD.COM By JEFFREY COLLINS ORANGEBURG, S.C. —  South Carolina State University trustees said Thursday they are being unfairly blamed for the university’s …

PHOTO COURTESY OF savoiesfood.com   By WILLIAM JOHNSON The Daily World OPELOUSAS, La. — Eula Savoie started a business 60 years ago selling sausages made …

Sometimes I write like I know about how most Caribbean people feel. Today I’m writing from the Jamaican experience. A Jamaican friend reminded me that …

PHOTO COURTESY OF inagist.com By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK — One of the last major digital holdouts, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” …

PHOTO COURTESY OF OF MIAMI-DADE AVIATION DEPARTMENT   MIAMI — Miami International Airport is now one of just two U.S. airports to offer Mobile Passport …

By JAY REEVES Probate judges must again decide whether to issue wedding licenses to gay couples after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled the state’s ban on …

HONG KONG — Hong Kong police used pepper spray Sunday to break up scuffles between protesters demonstrating against mainland Chinese shoppers and villagers from a border …

PHOTO COURTESY OF afolabi sotunde/reuters By CHIKA ODUAH Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding …

By SUE LOUGHLIN Tribune-Star TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Fernando Gonzalez had been vacationing at a beach, but he made a special trip to meet an …