John-John Williams IV, MSN BALTIMORE (MSN) — Three weeks ago, Toya Graham was a recently unemployed single mother of six and grandmother of one...
Peter Jacobs, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — High-school senior Ronald Nelson had an incredibly hard decision to make this year about college — mainly because...
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is paying consultant Lance Jackson to head its Facilities Planning and Management Department through the district’s contract with Seville Group...
Latino parent leaders have been fighting the Oakland Unified School District for the past five months to preserve the only three classes that offer instruction and...
Joan Lowy, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia appears to be yet another accident that didn’t have to happen. It...
Barbara Ortutay, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is pushing for higher pay and improved benefits for the janitors, cooks and other workers who...
Josephine Tinker, a woman who devoted her life to counseling and support for developmentally disabled adults and to special education of elementary and high school children,...
Lindsay Whitehurst, ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A law banning price-fixing for contact lenses that took effect this week in Utah is a...
Marilynn Marchione, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — For the first time, a large study suggests that a vitamin might modestly lower the risk of the most...
Mike Stobbe, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to offering cash to get smokers to quit, more people go for the...
Emily Steel and Sydney Ember, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — A new generation of Math Men is taking over the Mad Men...
Anne D’Innocenzio, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will test a new unlimited shipping service for online shoppers this summer that...
(BBC) — The EU aims to bring 20,000 refugees to Europe in the next two years, as part of the plan, at a cost of...
Andrew Njuguna and Melanie Gouby, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Gunfire and explosions rang out Thursday as military forces backing an attempted coup...
(ESPN) — NFL fans, by nearly a 2-1 margin, support the league’s sanctions against New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the team, and...
Ralph D. Russo, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) — Florida State? Interested. South Carolina? Not interested. Florida? Happy to be mentioned. Georgia? Well, the Bulldogs would...
David Newton, ESPN CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ESPN) — New Carolina Panthers linebacker David Mayo literally has gone from the outhouse to the penthouse. That is, if you...
Frazier Moore, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — When Oprah Winfrey was a youngster, the mere sighting of an African-American on television was occasion to...
News has spread of developer Phil Tagami’s action to negotiate a deal with four counties in Utah to ship coal to a new export terminal at...
Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican-controlled House panel on Wednesday approved deep spending cuts to Amtrak’s budget just hours after a...
Alicia A. Caldwell, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior Secret Service agents were “more likely than not” impaired by alcohol when they drove a...
By Sanya Panwar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi Biracial beauty Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Japan 2015 and will represent her country at the Miss Universe 2015...
Patricia Miller, SALON VATICAN (Salon.com) — News that the Vatican has officially recognized Palestinian statehood in a new treaty may have less of an impact...
By Kamau High Special to the NNPA News Service from The AFRO BALTIMORE (NNPA) – The Vanguard Justice Society has voiced its support for Sgt....
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When a white police officer killed an unarmed biracial teen in Wisconsin’s capital city, the shooting quickly...
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