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GOP gleeful over Democrats' midterm woes in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democrats appear poised to lose every statewide election in battleground Ohio this fall — most of them badly. The prospect...

AP Interview: NEA president opposes 'toxic' tests

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new president of the nation's largest teachers union is a guitar-playing, Spanish-speaking author who takes over as once-sacred tenure protections...

Nurse who had Ebola being released from hospital

ATLANTA (AP) — Amber Vinson, a nurse who fueled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient in Dallas,...

A community of mothers cry out while marching against gun violence

ST.  LOUIS (NNPA)--The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King UCC said it was time for all wailing mothers to have a voice. “There’s a...

Could more have been done for Thomas Eric Duncan?

DALLAS (AP) — When Thomas Eric Duncan became the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the United States, his relatives with roots in virus-ravaged...

Drug case dropped over Ferguson officer no-show

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A felony drug case involving the Ferguson police officer who killed an unarmed 18-year-old in a separate incident has been...

DC chief: Not many complaints about stop and frisk

WASHINGTON (AP) - Internal statistics don't back up the claim that police in Washington are disproportionately stopping and frisking African-Americans on the street, Police...

Stop and Diss…Community demands NYPD end police harassment

(NNPA)--From a police officer caught on camera allegedly stealing money from a man, to a pregnant woman being slammed to the ground by officers...

Baltimore girl gang beats, robs 17-year-old then posts it on Facebook

This is just sickening. A Baltimore girl gang reportedly ambushes, beats and robs an unsuspecting teen victim who was walking to a job interview —…

US disease expert argues against Ebola quarantine

  NEW YORK (AP) — The gulf between politicians and scientists over Ebola widened on Sunday as the nation's top infectious-disease expert warned that the...

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