Ala. governor defends white Masonic unit
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Gov. Bob Riley is defending his membership in a Masonic organization that critics say excludes blacks.
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Angry lawmakers grilled the Bank of England's governor Thursday about why he failed to prevent a run on deposits at mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC, but the governor countered by blaming the banking industry for creating a credit crisis.
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A U.S. civil rights group has sued a tiny, rural Florida county for erecting a granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments outside the local courthouse, on the grounds it violates the U.S. Constitution.
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A quarrel has been bubbling up over plans for the towering three-story Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington.
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State Sen. Randy White said Wednesday he would continue his campaign for a second term, despite the embarrassment of revealing photos of him aired on a Charleston television station.
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The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group defended their approach amid criticism from conservatives and the Iraqi president.
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Civil rights activists say racism is behind opposition to a ballot measure that would strike language requiring segregated schools and poll taxes from the Alabama Constitution.
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After months of political attacks, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jim Davis is admitting he made a mistake when he voted in the state Legislature to deny compensation for two black men convicted, and later pardoned, in the killings of two white men.
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A former two-term Democratic governor of Georgia, he once tried to take the Confederate emblem off the state flag. In terms of political fallout, that was worse than breaking with his party to support George
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Mike Huckabee's Republican rivals, fighting back as he surges in the presidential race, are tagging him as soft on crime because of a law he signed as Arkansas governor that gave some methamphetamine offenders more credit for good behavior.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says he would argue before the United States Supreme Court in defense of a Ten Commandments monument on the state capitol grounds.
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Two voters have filed challenges to the governor's election with the state Supreme Court &#151; the first shots in an anticipated legal battle over the amazingly close contest.
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An Alabama high school coach says he was just trying to get equality for his girls' basketball team when he complained about its treatment. His legal battle to regain his job will reach the Supreme Court at the end of the month.
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JENA, Louisiana  - About 25 white supremacists marched through this central Louisiana town on Monday in a white power rally on the U.S. national holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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The renewal of the 1965 voiting Rights Act, passed by the House despite criticism that Southern states were being hounded over their racist past, now faces similar objections from senators who oppose its federal oversight.
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Citing a parade of witnesses who have since recanted, the Vatican joined supporters of a condemned and urged Georgia's governor to commute his sentence.
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SELMA, Ala. - A Wallace State Community College basketball player was jailed Thursday on multiple counts after being accused of assisting three Montgomery men in robbing six of his teammates at gunpoint.  Police Lt.