Posts in category National & World

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Police have launched a manhunt for a former comrade suspected of gunning down a college basketball coach, her fiance and leaving …

MOHAMED HAMALUDIN mhamaludin@sfltimes.com OAKLAND PARK – An Ohio State University professor’s book detailing the harsh impact of the “war on drugs” on African Americans has  …

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – The corner of Airline Road and South Alameda Street epitomizes suburbia. A pharmacy, car mechanic, gas station, liquor store and …

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A Republican state senator has compared the role of insurance companies in the federal health care overhaul to the plight of …

JOHANNESBURG (AP) _ President Barack Obama promised to visit his father’s homeland _ Kenya _ before the end of his presidency, but of the 51 …

MIAMI (AP) _ Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in …

A Nevada lawmaker has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to harm a fellow legislator in a case that has prompted security protection to be …

Family caregivers are doing their loved ones (and themselves) a great disservice by not using available legal resources to make appropriate decisions regarding the safety, …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama’s second inauguration is shaping up as a high-energy celebration smaller than his first milestone swearing-in, yet still designed to …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) _ Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement …