Former Haitian President Rene Preval dead at 74
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Rene Preval, a low-key technocrat who led Haiti as president during the devastating January 2010 earthquake and …
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Rene Preval, a low-key technocrat who led Haiti as president during the devastating January 2010 earthquake and …
By LAVONE V. HAZELL Courtesy of www.funeralwise.com For the past two decades, the traditional funeral rite has been in transition for various reasons: changes in …
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau, who transcended genres over a 50-year career, died at a Los …
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) – Congo’s opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi, who pushed for democratic reforms for decades in …
LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) In an emotional ceremony, the mayor and the police chief of a west Georgia city have apologized for the lynching of a …
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi father pleaded guilty Friday in the hot car death of his baby daughter …
Staff Report LITHONIA, Ga. — People are paying their final respects during a service to celebrate the life of Eddie Long, a Georgia megachurch pastor …
By SETH BORENSTEIN and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HOUSTON — Astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan traced his only child’s initials in the dust of the lunar …
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A Georgia man who served among the first black U.S. Marines during World War II died Jan. 3, just a …
By JOHN WAWROW Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. – Willie Evans, the star black halfback of Buffalo’s 1958 team that balked at competing in the Tangerine …