By The Admin on June 25, 2010
The 78-year-old man who’s spent much of his life coaching baseball and grooming big league prospects listened intently, slowly shaking his head as the smile on his face gave way to a sad expression.
The number of black players in the majors declined last season, and Billy Reed fears things could get a lot worse before [...]
Posted in Race | Tagged baseball, MLB, youth
By The Admin on June 25, 2010
Attorneys for a Georgia man on death row for slaying a police officer have told a federal judge that new evidence shows police ignored the real killer in a rush to judgment nearly 21 years ago.
But as the two-day hearing came to a close Thursday, prosecutors argued that Troy Anthony Davis’ lawyers were rehashing old [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged capital punishment, innocence hearing, Troy Davis
By The Admin on June 25, 2010
Nearly 1 in 5 American women beyond childbearing years never gave birth as fewer couples, particularly higher-educated whites, view having children as necessary to a good marriage.
An analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center, being released Friday, documents the changes in fertility rates that are driving government projections that U.S. minorities will become [...]
Posted in Race | Tagged birth rate
By The Admin on June 25, 2010
Rod Blagojevich became bitter when told that newly elected President Barack Obama would give him thanks — but nothing else — in return for naming an Obama favorite to the Senate, according to an FBI tape played Thursday at the former governor’s corruption trial.
Blagojevich’s trial was proceeding after Judge James B. Zagel turned down a [...]
Posted in Illinois, State & Local News, White House | Tagged Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich
By The Admin on June 25, 2010
Following bloodshed over his capture, Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke arrived in New York City under tight security on Thursday to face charges he flooded the East Coast with shipments of cocaine and marijuana, authorities said.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents brought Coke by plane to an airport in suburban White Plains, N.Y., hours after [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
