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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former medical technician at a Philadelphia abortion clinic that authorities called a ‘house of horrors’ was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison…
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased, a coroner said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum Thursday directing the Labor Department to devise new overtime rules…
NEW YORK (AP) — Several lawsuits filed against McDonald’s this week say the fast-food chain engages in a variety of practices to avoid paying workers what they’re owed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers, saying the change would rein in runaway federal prison costs and create a fairer criminal justice system…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The athlete has been in a Los Angeles jail since Feb. 27, when he turned himself in on an arrest warrant issued by Louisiana authorities on similar charges…
NEW YORK (AP) — The pioneers of hip-hop are hoping to create a museum in New York City dedicated to the genre…
OPINION – It takes an impressive mix of incompetence and arrogance to be as bad as the New York Knicks have been this year…
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ended months of speculation about her political future on Wednesday when she announced that she will not seek a third term in office…
PHOENIX (AP) — Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper was indicted in Arizona on charges of sexual assault and administering dangerous drugs, authorities said Wednesday…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Zimmerman said in a videotaped interview with his divorce attorneys that he was trying to figure out who he is and he was doing the interview to ‘show America who I truly am’…
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison hours after a judge approved the state’s motion to vacate the man’s murder conviction in a the 1983 killing of a jeweler…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will direct the Labor Department to strengthen overtime pay protections for millions of workers, a White House official said…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City fire department says an East Harlem apartment building has exploded and collapsed, leading to 11 minor injuries…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jonathan Martin has had Jim Harbaugh’s support all along, from his early college days at Stanford to the offensive tackle’s tumultuous year in which he accused a Dolphins teammate of bullying…
CHAMPAIGN, Illinois (AP) — Director Spike Lee will attend a 25th-anniversary screening of “Do The Right Thing” at late movie critic Roger Ebert’s film festival…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the retrial of three Pittsburgh police officers — one who has since quit the force — on civil rights claims that they wrongly arrested and beat a young black performing arts student in January 2010…
OPINION – State Rep. Pat Garofalo became the latest, in a long line of bigots, to let the immediacy of Twitter shed a light on their idiotic views…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hamming it up online to promote his health care plan…
theGRIO REPORT – This Women’s History Month, I’ve been thinking frequently about Pauli Murray, a radical black woman who failed more than she succeeded, yet still blazed a formidable trail…