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 …
Hotel planned for airport area
Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE — Investors are planning a new sight for arrivals at Port-au-Prince’s international airport: a seven-story, 240-room luxury hotel rising just past …
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, …
Debate draws few candidates
Associated Press Writer PETIONVILLE — Haiti held its second presidential debate ever Saturday, a sparsely attended event that was short on detailed responses from the …
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.
‘Halo: Reach’ more fun with more than one player
Associated Press Writer When “Halo 3: ODST” was released last year, the once vibrant Halo universe felt exhausted, as though even its creators at Microsoft’s …