PASADENA, Texas emerges as new battleground on voting rights
By PAUL J. WEBER When the movie “Urban Cowboy” made this refinery town famous in 1980, the honkytonk Gilley’s was booming and wannabe cowpokes from the white Houston suburbs flocked…
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Revlon CEO ‘believes he can smell black people when they walk into a room
By CHARLENE ADAMS FOR MAILONLINE Revlon CEO ‘believes he can smell black people when they walk into a room, hates ‘dirty Americans’ and ‘thinks all Jews stick together’ claims shocking…
Murder rate falls in impoverished New Jersey city
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Like she does every year, Sister Helen Cole spent the last days of December overseeing a vigil for each person slain in Camden. For 2014, she lit…
Mario Cuomo, a giant in NY, liberal politics, dies
By DAVID KLEPPER and MICHAEL HILL Mario Cuomo had a loud and liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians to turn to public service, and a story of humble…
‘A living hell’ for slaves on remote South Korean islands
By FOSTER KLUG, JUNG-YOON CHOI and KIM TONG-HYUNG He ran the first chance he got. The summer sun beat down on the shallow, sea-fed fields where Kim Seong-baek was forced…
Georgia police chief told 911 he accidentally shot wife, investigators sa
By Ralph Ellis, CNN The man tasked with keeping the peace in Peachtree City, Police Chief William McCollom, was being investigated in a shooting that left his wife in critical…
Legal marijuana states have lessons to share
By KRISTEN WYATT Don’t worry about a federal lawsuit. But do worry about tax rates. Those are among the many lessons Colorado and Washington have to share from the front…
Bono: I may never play guitar again after crash
Bono says he now has a titanium elbow and may never play guitar again due to injuries suffered in a New York City cycling accident. The 54-year-old U2 frontman suffered…