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Michael A. Katz | Apr 10, 2015 02:03 PM EDT
Lauren Hill, who fulfilled her dream of playing for Mount St. Joseph's women's basketball team in November, passed away at the age of 19 after a long battle with brain cancer. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 10, 2015 08:33 PM EDT
If U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate would have it his way, he would have given on Thursday longer sentences to two young white women involved in running over to death a black Mississippi man in 2011. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 10, 2015 07:36 AM EDT
Police arrested on Thursday night a man who shot to death the guard at the U.S. Census Bureau office in Suitland, Maryland. The suspect, an alleged kidnapper, led police on a wild chase through Washington D.C. streets before he was caught. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 09, 2015 05:53 AM EDT
The furor over the Ferguson shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white officer has barely died down, yet the incident was repeated again in South Carolina. The incident, which could have been hidden were it not for a video clip offered by a witness as proof, would likely stoke another anti-police sentiment across the U.S. and lead to violent wave of protests. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 09, 2015 04:46 AM EDT
Slowly killing her son by poisoning him over five years with salt just to get online attention and blog follower earned for 27-year-old Lacey Spears of Scottsville, Kentucky, more than just a 20-year prison term. read more
Geann Pineda | Apr 09, 2015 04:32 AM EDT
U.S. President Barack Obama has called for an end to conversion therapy, a psychiatric treatment that aims to convert gays, lesbians and transgender people to heterosexuals. read more
Geann Pineda | Apr 09, 2015 03:28 AM EDT
The jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bombing. read more
Dianne Sencil | Apr 09, 2015 04:28 AM EDT
New York senior high achool student Harold Ekeh is grateful, albeit shocked, to have made it to 13 American colleges, including all eight Ivy League schools. read more
Geann Pineda | Apr 08, 2015 08:46 AM EDT
A father and his seven children were all killed in a carbon monoxide poisoning in Maryland, police said on Tuesday. read more
Geann Pineda | Apr 07, 2015 07:28 AM EDT
Carriages, trolleys and wagons took to the streets of the historic French Quarter, New Orleans in the state of Louisiana, for the annual Gay Easter Parade. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 06, 2015 11:19 AM EDT
Yes, Virginia, there was no rape in your campus - that in essence was the content of the Rolling Stone magazine's apology on Sunday night which also serves as its retraction of the fabricated rape story by a female University of Virginia (UVA) student in the hands of fraternity boys. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 06, 2015 10:23 AM EDT
It is not every Easter that a church gets to have a sitting president as its guests, so Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley, the pastor of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia slightly altered its Sunday worship. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 06, 2015 12:45 AM EDT
Claudettia Love, a lesbian senior high school student, said she would no longer attend the school prom because the principal did not allow her to wear a tuxedo. It is not just Adore but also her close friends from the Carroll High in Monroe are boycotting the prom because of the school's policy. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 05, 2015 04:52 AM EDT
Racial slurs are fast becoming one of the reasons behind the suspension, if not the expulsion, of university students. Fresh on the heels of the expulsion of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members of Oklahoma University in March for a racist chant caught on video, it was the turn of a student of the University of South Carolina for a similar reason. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Apr 05, 2015 04:42 AM EDT
A 44-year-old suspect in Oklahoma was shot dead on Friday when a reserve deputy mistakenly pulled his revolver and not the stun gun while Eric Courtney Harris was being handcuffed. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
