By JUSTIN POPE The Supreme Court’s ruling on the use of racial preferences in college admissions left many questions unanswered: Is the University of Texas’ admissions policy that uses race… Read more »
Category: National News
Prosecutors want to admit calls in Zimmerman trial
By KYLE HIGHTOWER and MIKE SCHNEIDER (SANFORD, Fla., AP) — As a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman called police close to 50 times over an eight-year-period to report such things… Read more »
Ohio air show resumes after stuntwoman, pilot die
By AMANDA LEE MYERS (CINCINNATI, AP) — Spectators have returned to an air show in southwestern Ohio a day after a pilot and wing walker were killed in a horrifying… Read more »
Taliban offer adds urgency to Idaho POW rally
By JOHN MILLER (HAILEY, Idaho, AP) — The father and mother of the only known U.S. prisoner of war plan to speak on Saturday afternoon to a big crowd in… Read more »
Firefighters keep guard over mountain enclave
By JERI CLAUSING (DEL NORTE, Colo., AP) — Fire crews with tankers and hoses at the ready stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular… Read more »
Southwest cancels 57 flights after computer glitch
By JEFF McMURRAY (CHICAGO, AP) — A system-wide computer failure forced Southwest Airlines to ground its entire fleet of airplanes preparing for departures late Friday, and at least 57 flights… Read more »
Pa. girl who fought for lung transplant now awake
(PHILADELPHIA, AP) — A spokeswoman for the family of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who underwent a double-lung transplant after a national debate over the process of getting the organs says… Read more »
Some immigrants excluded from health care overhaul
By CRISTINA SILVA (PHOENIX, AP) — President Barack Obama has championed two sweeping policy changes that could transform how people live in the United States: affordable health care for all… Read more »
Zimmerman jurors reveal personal details
By KYLE HIGHTOWER and MIKE SCHNEIDER (SANFORD, Fla., AP) — One potential juror at George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial belongs to the National Rifle Association. Another says she was the… Read more »
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
By BRIDGET MURPHY (MILFORD, Mass., AP) — He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small… Read more »