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Feds: Don't expect winter to be polar vortex redux

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you thought last winter was a horror show, with cold blasts from the polar vortex and a lack of California...

Fla. man gets life in prison in loud music killing

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a teenager in an argument over loud music outside a...

NNPA launches social media hashtag campaign to celebrate 75th anniversary

--The Voice of the Black Community Offers Opportunity to Let Your Voice be Heard-- Washington, D.C. – As the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) prepares...

Pastor accused of affairs, not revealing he had AIDS temporarily banned from church

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A minister who confessed to having sex with church members and neglecting to tell them he had AIDS was temporarily...

Ebola-stricken nurse being flown to Washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased...

Ohio's leading Black newspaper endorses Republican for Governor

Call & Post Endorses Republican For Governor In Ohio, Republican Governor John Kasich won the endorsement of The Call & Post, Cleveland’s major Black newspaper....

2nd Ebola nurse transported from Dallas to Atlanta’s Emory Hospital

A second Dallas nurse who became infectected with the deadly Ebola virus while caring for the now-deceased West African Thomas Eric Duncan has been flown…

Record number of Black candidates seeking office

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 Black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that...

This Week in Black History 10-15-14

  Week of Oct. 15-21 October 15 1859—White minister and mystic John Brown leads a violent uprising in Harper’s Ferry, Va., in a bid to spark a...

Burning up campaign trail, first lady comes to Pa.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Michelle Obama told a crowd Wednesday in the Democratic Party stronghold of Philadelphia to come out in big numbers for gubernatorial...

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