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ATLANTA — Stanley Nelson writes for a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana delta. For the past four years, he has been obsessed with one story: who threw gasoline into a rural shoe repair and dry goods shop in 1964 and started a fire that killed Frank Morris?

DETROIT – A month after surgery in Detroit for an undisclosed ailment, Aretha Franklin says her health is “superb.” Franklin called in to Wednesday’s installment of “The Wendy Williams Show,” telling the host she was relaxing at a casino hotel in her hometown and hopes to begin traveling soon, saying she’ll be “looking for a […]

Washington D.C.– For those who’ve been waiting to mark it on their calendars, President Obama and Congress have agreed he will deliver his 2011 State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Verizon will offer wireless service for iPhones starting early next month. The long-awaited announcement was made to a crowd of tech reporters at a theater in New York’s Lincoln Center. Verizon CEO Lowell MacAdam called Apple “our strategic partner” and said talks began two years ago. Verizon’s partnership with Apple ends the gadget giant’s five-year […]

From NBC Chicago Illinois Congressman Danny Davis on Monday clarified reports that his office had received a threatening email. He said the message, received Sunday, came from someone who was warning him that he might be in danger from another group.   The message itself was not threatening, he said. “The group that [the sender was] […]

New York — BOBBY ROBINSON, whose tiny record shop on Harlem’s 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday. He was 93 and had been ill for several years – though he regularly went to work at his shop until it was forced to close […]

I say this because Arizona is not the problem. We the people are the problem. That is, we Americans who think it is cool to engage in rhetoric, political or otherwise, that encourages division, ugliness, hatred, and violence, directly or indirectly. Over the past several years, we’ve witnessed this madness via certain television networks, tv […]

There is a secret to having everything you want, but it’s not really a secret. Jesus Himself spoke about it at length, and this Truth can be found throughout the Bible and other inspired works. We use this secret in ignorance because we do not understand it, bringing to ourselves things we do not want. […]

Officials are investigating possible explosions at the Maryland Department of Transportation’s headquarters in Hanover and a state government building in Annapolis. Firefighters and hazmat crews were sent to the MDOT building in the 7200 block of Corporate Center in Hanover shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday. A source has told 11 News that two packages exploded, […]

Radio One, Inc., announced today that Radio Station WXMG-FM in Columbus, Ohio, which can be found at http://www.MyColumbusMagic.com, interviewed Ted Williams, the man who has become an Internet sensation and is aptly being referred to as the Man with the Golden Radio Voice, and offered him a full-time job. It would be a fitting return […]