Mike Huckabee compares abortion to slavery
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee compared abortion to slavery while speaking at a fundraiser for an anti-abortion group on Monday night...
Off the hook! Charges against Yo Gotti dropped
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) - The performer, whose legal name is Mario Mims, had been arrested after the fight outside a nightclub on Nov. 29 that left five men with gunshot wounds...
With images of civil rights, blacks urged to vote
ATLANTA (AP) - On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across America to get out and vote...
White rep survives another race-focused campaign
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Democratic voters in Memphis rejected their former mayor's race-focused campaign for Congress, delivering a landslide to incumbent Rep. Cohen...
Tenn. voters to decide pricy, heated House races
DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Willie Herenton has raised almost no money but plenty of controversy by telling voters in the majority black district to vote for him because he's African-American...
Bobby Hebb of 'Sunny' fame dead at age 72 of cancer
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - Hebb had said in several interviews that he wrote "Sunny" in response to the slaying of his brother outside a Nashville nightclub and to the assassination of JFK...
Ex-mayor makes Memphis, Tenn. primary about race
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - In the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a once-unbeatable former mayor wants the Democratic congressional primary to be a referendum on race...
Black candidate slams Obama's white rep support
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Willie Herenton said Rep. Steve Cohen, who is white, is desperately concerned he'll lose the black vote and pushed the Obama staff for an endorsement...
Angry dad pulls gun on Little League coach in parking lot
VIDEO - A Tennessee dad points loaded gun at his son's baseball coach after being asked to stop cursing...
Ex-Memphis mayor runs against white rep on race
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Willie Herenton tried to stir up his low-key congressional campaign Wednesday by claiming again that his race is a good reason to send him to Washington...
