Posts in category National & World

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CHULA VISTA, California (AP) — For a company that booked $12 million in annual sales importing snacks like chile- and …

BY PHILLIP RAWLS AND JAY REEVES  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Juan D. McFarland is described as a man of “passion, prayer and purpose” in a …

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Police arrested dozens of protesters during the final of four days of rallies and civil disturbance to express anger at the …

GENEVA (AP) – The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a …

By KRISTA LARSON, Oct. 9, 2014 (AP) First 16-year-old Promise Cooper’s mother complained of a hurting head and raging fever, and she died days later on the way …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” …

By DEREK KINNER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A homeless man living in his truck helped police solve the fatal shooting of a black teenager …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey and performer-activist Harry Belafonte were among those honored at Harvard University on Tuesday at its annual celebration of African …