Posts in category National & World

NEW YORK (AP) _ Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” she wrote a detailed and harrowing account …

AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON — Cancer and memory loss are baby boomers’ biggest health fears. Given their weight, maybe heart disease and diabetes should be.

BALTIMORE — World renowned genetic and hematologic researcher Dr. Michael DeBaun, will deliver the Charles F. Whitten Lecture at the  39th annual national convention of …

DETROIT (AP) _ A lawyer involved in a long-running dispute over the estate of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks claims two other lawyers piled up …

MHamaludin@SFLTimes.com FORT LAUDERDALE — After five years on the drawing board and a court battle, an era spanning nearly three-quarters of a century has come …

DETROIT (AP) _ Disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick writes in his upcoming memoir that he “hated on” then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as he watched the …

(Associated Press) –JOHANNESBURG — A new Nelson Mandela book, slim, bound in black and set in eye-straining type, looks a bit like a bible or …

GARDEN GROVE, California — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller has been voted off the board of Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the church he founded more than …

(Associated Press) –NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Southern Baptist Convention leader says the group’s policy arm supports a “clean” version of the DREAM Act – a …

(Associated Press) – Barack Obama is renewing an old fight with the business community by insisting that $400 billion in tax increases be part of …