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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors chose a white man to serve as mayor until a June election, replacing the African-American woman temporarily serving in the position and infuriating activists in a city that is celebrated for its progressive politics but also has a dwindling black population. RELATED: London Breed Named S.F. Mayor  The […]

A 14-year-old Florida boy has been arrested for carjacking an 81-year-old woman in front of a Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes. ABC Local 10 News reports that the boy’s mother Ramona Gordon turned her son in to the Lauderdale Lakes police on Friday, January 19 after seeing a video of him on television. According to a […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby is suddenly out and about in his hometown of Philadelphia in what legal experts say appears to be an effort by the comedian to rebuild his good-guy image ahead of his retrial on sexual assault charges in the spring. In the past two weeks, the 80-year-old Cosby emerged from a […]

CHESTER, Va. (AP) — The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a leader in the civil rights movement who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assemble his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” has died. He was either 88 or 89. Family records showed different years of birth, said his daughter, Patrice Walker Powell, who confirmed his […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A northern Maine town manager who espoused white separatist views was fired on Tuesday and is getting $30,000 for agreeing not to sue the town. The selectmen in the rural town of Jackman announced the decision after a closed-door executive session with Tom Kawczynski, the town’s top administrator since June. Kawczynski […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal jury said Monday night that the former sheriff in Milwaukee, David Clarke, did not violate a man’s free speech with taunting Facebook posts after detaining him at an airport last year for shaking his head at the sheriff. The civil lawsuit from Daniel Black argued he received hateful messages and […]

It just goes to show how different a police officer’s perspective on how something actually went down can be from the rest of us. Take this latest incident, where a school resource officer was called to the campus of Helix Charter High School near San Diego around 1:30 p.m. on Friday because a student that was on […]

It looks like Omarosa Manigualt-Newman has no regrets about leaving the White House behind. Nope, especially when her financial future is looking real good. If you haven’t heard, Trump’s former Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison has a new gig, so to speak. She is now on the roster of speakers signed […]

April Ryan, doing God’s work as one of the few black White House correspondents, told CNN Sunday that she and her journalist colleagues in the age of Trump have “the FBI and local police on speed dial” for death threats. “Death threats, yes,” Ryan told Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources. “For asking questions […]

103-year-old Ethel Stevenson says the secret to her longevity is her dedication to servicing the community. Stevenson works every day at the Ethel V. Stevenson Senior Center in Ecorse—a building that bears her name to honor her 60-year career at the community center, WJBK reported. Her job is to coordinate senior transportation, and when she […]