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Mitrice Richardson's father, Michael Richardson, is accusing Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials of allegedly mishandling his daughter's case and wants sheriff's official, Lee Baca, to take a lie detector test to find out what happened on the night his daughter vanished.

With Wyclef Jean's recent run for Haitian Presidential candidacy, the Haitian artist's past activity with Yéle is now in question. It was widely reported that Yéle’s 2006 tax filing revealed $350,000 in questionable payments to two companies that Mr. Jean and his cousin control, including $250,000 to a Haitian television station they had just acquired. With a history of poor economy in Haiti, Jean's involvement with Yéle may affect many people's trust in him.

Harvard is the top school once again. The Ivy League tie has been broken – and Harvard is the winner.

Shaquan Duley charged with murder. Two young children were pulled dead from their child seats in a submerged car and South Carolina authorities expressed doubts about the mother’s account that it was an accident. Two-year-old Devean C. Duley and 18-month-old Ja’van T. Duley were dead in their child seats by the time divers got to […]

In 2001, former Surgeon General David Satcher called the prevalence of overweight and obesity in America a crisis of “epidemic proportions.” At this time, the rates of childhood obesity had tripled since 1970, and some experts predicted, for the first time in history, that children would have shorter life spans than their parents.

South Carolina Senate nominee Alvin Greene (D) insisted that he will remain in the race in an odd interview published Saturday.

En route to Florida, President Obama clarifies his stance on allowing a Mosque to be built near Ground-Zero.

Forty, 50, even 60 years later, Athens High and Industrial School and Burney-Harris High School alumni still remember their school song. More than 100 of them sang it Saturday after unveiling a plaque marking the site of Georgia's first high school for African Americans at what's now a vacant lot at the corner of North Pope and Reese streets.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to leave his job next year.

With a strong voice and the memories that come from experience, William McDonald shared with East Texans about a world that once was.

President Barack Obama is out to make sure his presence pays for Democrats, launching a three-day fundraising trip on Monday in which he will touch nearly every region of the nation and play up his economic agenda.