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Caretaker: Woman has changed torture story before
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A black Ohio woman who recanted allegations of being tortured by a group of white people in West Virginia has mental issues and has more than once changed her version of what happened, her current caretaker said Thursday.
Nations:U.S. People:Al Sharpton Source:(AP)
2009-10-22
Arizona sheriff conducts migrant sweeps despite curb
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on undocumented migrants is conducting an immigration and crime sweep around Phoenix, less than a day after federal authorities curbed his powers to make immigration arrests.
People:Al Sharpton Barack Obama Source:(Reuters)
2009-10-18
Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams
ST. LOUIS - Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.
People:Rush Limbaugh Al Sharpton Donovan McNabb Source:(AP)
2009-10-14
Obama moves to dampen uproar over comment on race
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama concedes his words -- that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home -- were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark.
Nations:U.S. People:Deval Patrick Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-07-25
Obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire
WASHINGTON - Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President Barack Obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white arresting officer was a good man and invited him and the professor to the White House for a beer.
Nations:U.S. People:Deval Patrick Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Barack Obama Activities:Obama Admin. Source:(AP)
2009-07-24
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