Famed civil rights leader and Atlanta legend Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit, but friends say his condition is not serious. Click here for details.
Officials have agreed to pay $1.5 million to the daughter of a man fatally shot in the back by a transit police officer on New Year's Day 2009 in Oakland, California. A bystander's cell-phone video of the shooting on a transit platform was widely circulated on the Internet and on news shows.
A Kansas jury deliberated just 40 minutes before convicting an anti-abortion activist of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an abortion provider. The jury found Scott Roeder guilty of gunning down Dr. George Tiller, who operated a clinic in Wichita where late-term abortions were performed.
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When President Obama presents his first State of the Union address tonight at 9pm, aides said he would accept responsibility, though not necessarily blame, for failing to deliver swiftly on some of the changes he promised a year ago. But he will not, aides said, accede to criticism that his priorities are out of step with the nation’s.
NBA Commissioner David Stern today suspended Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas and reserve Javaris Crittenton for the remainder of the season. In a statement, Stern explained that there was no question that the players violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement by bringing guns into the Verizon Center locker room.
For countless Haitians and others in Port-au-Prince, new rules of hunger etiquette are emerging. Stealing food, it is widely known, might get you killed. Children are most likely to return with something to eat, but no matter what is found, or how hungry the forager, everything must be shared.
Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of Haiti’s most important advocacy organizations working on behalf of women and girls, are confirmed dead — victims of last week’s 7.0 earthquake. Their deaths have left members of the women’s movement, Haitian and otherwise, reeling.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has written a scathing report about Clark Atlanta University's decision to fire nearly one-fourth of its full-time faculty members one year ago. The controversy started when the school suddenly terminated 55 of its faculty members, allegedly without giving much notice.
The end of the Conan O’Brien chapter of “The Tonight Show” was officially hammered out on Thursday with a lot of money — and some parting recriminations — being dished out. O’Brien’s settlement with NBC will pay him $32.5 million. Click here for details.
Television stations WJTV and WLBT reported, citing unnamed sources, that Tiger Woods was at the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services center, where security is tight and dark tarps have been placed upon wire fences. Click here for details.
One of the guys from the MTV reality show “From G’s to Gents” is wanted by Georgia police for one of the most disgusting crimes imaginable — the brutal, bone-breaking beating of his infant daughter. Markice “Kesan” Moore is currently on Cobb County’s Most Wanted list.