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October 18th, 2012
Written by Jack Elliott Jr. - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi NAACP is asking federal judges to redraw the state House and Senate districts that were approved by the Justice Department last month. The group also wants the judges to set new legislative elections in 2013, two years ahead of the normal schedule.
The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed its lawsuit Saturday,...
October 18th, 2012
Written by Brian Witte - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gallaudet University's chief diversity officer said Oct. 16, she believes she should be reinstated to her job after university leadership put her on administrative leave for signing a petition to put same-sex marriage on the ballot for voters to decide in November.
Angela McCaskill, speaking publicly for the first time after she was put on leave last week, sharply criticized...
October 18th, 2012
Written by Charles Babington - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney teed up the last three weeks of the presidential election as a question of which man voters can trust to improve the economy.
If the undecided voters who questioned the two men in Tuesday's fast-paced debate are an indication, then the Nov. 6 contest may turn on whether like-minded Americans decide to stick with a disappointing-...
October 17th, 2012
Written by Jeannie Nuss - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) — The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in his home state.
Street signs and an elementary school in the state capital have long borne Dodd's name, and admirers gather at his grave each year to pay tribute to Dodd's life and death.
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October 17th, 2012
Written by Curt Anderson - AP Legal Affairs Writer in Latest News, Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The foreperson of the jury that convicted a teenager in a fiery attack on a middle school classmate told a judge Friday she was subjected to racial harassment during deliberations that she described as chaotic and confrontational.
The other five jurors, also interviewed Friday by Circuit Judge Matthew Destry, said they didn't recall intense racial animosity but most...
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