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OBAMA SPEAKS AT ASU GRADUATION WITHOUT AN HONORARY DEGREE
As President Barack Obama prepares to give the commencement address at Arizona State University, I struggle not to be angry with the university for choosing not to give the president an honorary degree. Is ASU just out and out racist?Hey, the questio...
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN DIES AT AGE 94
I'm sad tonight. One of the world's leading historians in our time died today, John Hope Franklin, age 94. I recently had an opportunity to read his autobiography. It was moving and inspiring and assured me I can truly do and be more. May he rest in ...
4 YEARS OF OBAMA AND OLBERMANN - YEAH!
NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama, the presidential candidate Keith Olbermann championed this fall, just won a four-year term. So, too, has Olbermann.MSNBC announced Monday that Olbermann, its headlining prime-time star, has signed on to continue hostin...
Nancy Reagan Hospitalized Due to Broken Pelvis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nancy Reagan has been hospitalized in Los Angeles with a broken pelvis.Reagan spokeswoman Joanne Drake says the 87-year-old former first lady fell at her home last week. She decided Monday to get checked out at Ronald Reagan UCLA...
OJ SIMPSON FOUND GUILTY OF ARMED ROBBERY
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.The 61-year-ol...
KWAME KILPATRICK PLEADS GUILTY, TO DO JAIL TIME
DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fin...
BREAKING NEWS: STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES DEAD AT AGE 58
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio has died.Clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil says Tubbs Jones died at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by an an...
CONGRESSWOMAN STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES DIES
BREAKING NEWS :U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) dies after being hospitalized for an aneurysms suffered.EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was in a hospital Wednesday.Tubbs Jones, 59, was taken to the Cleveland Clin...
KWAME KILPATRICK GETS PRAYERS ANSWERED
Judge Rules Detroit Mayor Didn't Violate BondDETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's third trip to court in a week turned into a victory Tuesday when a judge threw out prosecutors' claim that a visit with his sister violated the terms of his bail i...
KWAME KILPATRICK WAITS FOR APPEAL WHILE IN JAIL
DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday for a bond violation in his perjury case, his pleas for leniency rejected by a judge who made it clear the mayor would get no special treatment.Kilpatrick, charged with perjury and other fel...
West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty for the Torture of Megan Williams
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) — Another defendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young woman held captive in West Virginia last summer.Bobby Brewster, 25, pleaded guilty in Logan County Circuit Court on Tuesday to second...
