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November 2, 2014
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana freshman basketball player Emmitt Holt was cited Saturday for misdemeanor underage drinking after he struck…
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November 1, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — If some workplace problems happen because employees are only human, one New York City government worker…
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November 1, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homes of slaves who served President James Madison at his Montpelier estate in Virginia will be rebuilt…
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November 1, 2014
ATLANTA (AP) — With Republicans confident of reclaiming control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats are looking to black voters in…
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October 31, 2014
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida A&M band member accused of being the ringleader of a brutal hazing ritual…
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October 31, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The city on Friday reached a $2.25 million settlement with the mother of a mentally ill,…
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October 30, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s campaign says a remark he made at a private dinner about only…
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October 29, 2014
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The South Carolina woman accused of trying to kill her three children by driving her…
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October 15, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient…
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October 15, 2014
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Juan McFarland is described as a man of “passion, prayer and purpose” in a…
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October 12, 2014
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to much more than achieving racial equality. That goal, he said…
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October 12, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — Ebola victim, Thomas E. Duncan, said he’d recently traveled from West Africa, was in severe pain —…
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October 12, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has…
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October 11, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Tense but peaceful protests over Michael Brown’s death and other fatal police shootings in Missouri and…
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October 10, 2014
A quick Google search turned up tens of accounts of everyday objects—from hairbrushes to holy books—that were mistaken for guns.
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October 10, 2014
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters angered by the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by police faced off with officers…
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October 9, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — States that stiffened their voter identification laws saw drops in election turnout, with disproportionate effect on blacks…
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October 8, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa arriving at five U.S.…
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October 8, 2014
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Leo Twiggs' paintings of shadowy Confederate flags and faceless men with bulls-eyes on their backs are…
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October 7, 2014
OPINION - OMG EBOLA IS HERE! EVERYBODY PANIC. No. Don’t. I’m just kidding. Although many people already have started, so…