ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown is trying to stop Florida lawmakers from redrawing her congressional district, saying their efforts will deny African-Americans political representation. Brown and other black leaders in central Florida on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to intervene in the Florida Supreme Court decision that is causing lawmakers to…
ATLANTA (AP) – Bobby Brown says in a statement that he feels “completely numb” after the death of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown. Bobby Brown said in the statement Monday that 22-year-old Bobbi Kristina was an angel. Bobbi Kristina died Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Ga., about six months after she was found,…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – A brief but intense hailstorm that dropped as much as 4 inches of slippery pellets in a South Dakota city prompted officials to call out snowplows in the middle of summer. Pennington County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Jackson tells the Rapid City Journal that the Tuesday night incident on U.S. Highway…
The former Burlington mayor says there is “something profoundly wrong” when so much of the nation’s income goes to the top 1 percent of all earners
There was no evidence that sex-selection abortions have happened in Louisiana
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – A U.S. Marine Corps combat photographer from Illinois is among the eight dead who were aboard a Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal. Officials identified the victims Sunday. Cpl. Sara A. Medina, a combat photographer with Marine Corps Installations Pacific, Okinawa, Japan, and a native of…
The former secretary of state is making a second campaign visit to Iowa on Monday.
For the first time, Amtrak could face a $200 million payout to crash victims.
