Posts in category National & World

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Raising the retirement age for Social Security would disproportionately hurt low-income workers and minorities, and increase disability claims by older people unable …

Associated Press GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — He’s the most famous son of this quiet mountain hamlet in western Massachusetts. But, until recently, people looking for …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Representatives of Memphis Hispanic groups and their supporters decried comments by a Republican lawmaker who likened illegal immigrant births to rats …

Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. — Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Eddie Long took on trips four young men who claim he coerced them into sexual relationships but …

Associated Press Writer GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP)– Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show Hour of Power, has filed for bankruptcy in Southern …

LONDON (AP) — Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae singer whose smooth style earned him the nickname “Cool Ruler,” has died. He was 59. Isaacs’ manager, …

PORT-OF-SPAIN —Trinidad and Tobago prosecutors dropped a murder charge Oct. 21 against the leader of an Islamic group that staged a bloody coup attempt 20 …

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where …

ATLANTA (AP) _ Years before Rosa Parks fought for justice from her seat on a Montgomery bus, she fought for Recy Taylor. Parks was an …

CHICAGO (AP) — Albertina Walker’s singing once stopped the filming of a movie because so many actors were moved to tears by the “Queen of …