Law and order

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a request by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to overturn his corruption conviction and 28-year prison…

Most Americans have seen firsthand what the downside of diabetes can do to the human body. If you haven’t contracted the disease from a young age, then many acquired it through years of a bad diet and lack of exercise. Just like heart disease, it is considered a silent killer among African-Americans. According to America’s […]

Most Americans have seen firsthand what the downside of diabetes can do to the human body. If you haven’t contracted the disease from a young…

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — If the State of Florida’s attempted murder-for-hire case against Dalia Dippolito unfolds like a reality show, maybe that’s because it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging Republicans to drop their adamant refusal…

NEW YORK (AP) — The family and friends of an unarmed Black teen shot to death in front of his grandmother and 6-year-old brother by…

NEW YORK (AP) — Margo Seibert and Natalie Brasington don’t think women should have to pay a “period tax,” and like a growing number of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ It was declared the “Trial of the Century” and captivated the nation from the day O.J. Simpson was arrested in 1994…

 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a Black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally…