Posts in category National & World

NEW YORK — As workers cleared some of the last of the rubble Sunday from the site of a massive explosion last week in New …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said in an interview …

TALLAHASSEE — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and  his National Action Network joined hundreds in a march to the state Capitol Monday to …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A troubled Haitian orphanage run by a small and apparently well-funded U.S. church has made cosmetic changes in the two months since an …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – When Samira Mbotizafy Frasch arrived in Tallahassee four years ago from France, she told her new friends about a glamorous past …

WASHINGTON — In one of the most significant steps of its kind taken by any Administration, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan which he …

JACKSON, Mississippi — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who was elected mayor of Mississippi’s capital last year, died …

JACKSONVILLE — Jurors in the trial of a white man charged with first- degree murder for shooting a 17-year-old black male in a dispute over …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The planned hiring of a long-term executive director for the North Carolina Democratic Party has been delayed as both allies and …

CHICAGO (AP) – Barack Obama’s journey from community organizer to lawmaker to president was also a journey through several different Chicagos, from the city’s isolated …