Posts in category National

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON – To supporters, zero-tolerance policing has long represented a logical crime-fighting approach: Crack down on minor infractions before they …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@sfltimes.com MIAMI – The three women have been impacted by gun violence in devastating ways. Sybrina Fulton lost her 17-year old son, …

By MEGAN TRIMBLE Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. – Police in New Jersey’s capital city have reinstated a curfew for juveniles, but the decision to drop …

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Avoiding possible banishment from the bench, a remorseful Kentucky judge was suspended Monday for racially charged comments aimed at a …

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON – Moving beyond “Obamacare,”political activists are lookingto state ballot questions to refocus the nation’s longrunning debate over government’s role …

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK – The latest deaths of black people at the hands of police led Jaime Sunwoo to undertake something …

By ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press NEW YORK – The opening of the Clara Francis Gallery on Wednesday in a renovated Harlem storefront was an exciting …

By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON – For eight summer nights, there were two starkly different visions of America. At Donald Trump’s Re- …

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s decision to add immigration to its already robust list of politically charged cases means a raft of rulings in the …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – One of the nation’s largest private collections of African-American art is now on display in Tallahassee. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that Bernard …