Southwest Airlines to buy AirTran for $1.4B
AP Airlines Writer NEW YORK — Southwest agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.4 billion deal that will combine two of the country’s largest low-fare …
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Racist messages pose quandary for mainstream Web sites
AP National Writer Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there’s a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to …
Long staying away from Sweet Home
Georgia-based Bishop Eddie Long will not preside over the installation of the new pastor of Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church in Perrine on Sunday. A …
NAACP files complaint over Wake Co. schools
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ North Carolina civil rights groups want the federal Department of Education, which spends nearly $78 million a year on Wake County …
Cuba’s leaders set out details of massive layoffs
Associated Press Writers HAVANA — Cuba’s communist leaders have already determined what they want soon-to-be-dismissed workers to do after they get their pink slips in …
Cuban minister recalls meeting of Malcolm X-Castro
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Fifty years after Malcolm X met with Fidel Castro in New York in the midst of the Cold War, …
Program could reinvigorate Florida film industry
Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — Florida is trying to lure movie and television production back to the state by offering tax credits to producers.
Lawyer: Other young men went on trips with pastor
ATLANTA (AP) _ The pastor of a nationally known Atlanta-area megachurch took other young men on trips as part of a mentoring program but stands …
Long refutes sex charges by 3 young men
Associated Press Writers ATLANTA — The pastor of a nationally known Atlanta-area megachurch took other young men on trips as part of a mentoring program …
Passenger rights advocate drops Delta lawsuit
A passenger rights advocate is dropping Delta Air Lines Inc. from a lawsuit claiming Delta hacked into her computer to steal her e-mail. Kate Hanni …