Sharpton's stature rises amid shooting
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The morning 23-year-old Sean Bell was shot to death by police, his grieving relatives did something that has become almost routine in such cases: They called the Rev. Al Sharpton. Within hours, the longtime civil rights activist had consoled relatives, held two news conferences, and begun organizing a community rally for the next day.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, who urged the Imus' firing, wouldn't object if the radio personality returned to the airwaves. "He has a right to make a living," he said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
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At least 18 people were shot when a gunman opened fire at Northern Illinois University outside Chicago on Thursday, CNN said, quoting its local affiliate.
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By TOM BREEN  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Prison guards in West Virginia have gained some unexpected allies in their push for higher pay: inmates, including a self-proclaimed poet serving a life sentence for murder.
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Civil rights leader Al Sharpton blasted Georgia's attorney general Thursday for challenging the release of a man serving 10 years in prison for a teenage sexual encounter, saying, "People did not suffer for your career."
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The Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendant of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond &#151; a discovery the civil rights activist called "shocking" on Sunday.
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Duquesne University forward Sam Ashaolu, one of five basketball players shot after a campus dance last weekend, was upgraded from critical to serious condition Friday and has begun to speak softly.
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MADISON, Wisconsin  - A 15-year-old student   critically wounded his school's principal in western Wisconsin   on Friday after telling another student "you better run," in   the second U.S. school shooting this week, authorities said.
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The sharp increases provide more evidence that the troubles in the housing and mortgage markets may prove long-lived.
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Far more than his predecessors, Rudolph W. Giulianiâs toughness edged toward ruthlessness and became a defining aspect of his mayoralty.
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The mushrooming gang culture on Britain&#39;s streets, drawing more young members from ethnic minorities, came into sharp focus this week with the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy.
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A booming illegal gun trade in Haiti has increased the number of high-powered weapons on Jamaica's streets, contributing to the island's spiraling homicide rate, the national security minister said.
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A man is charged in connection with a shooting in which a two-year-old twin boy was hurt.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond, a genealogical study released Sunday  reported.
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Opportunism and indignation helped power Conrad M. Blackâs rise to the heights of media life.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 15--Rival Palestinian factions exchanged gunfire Friday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving more than 30 people wounded, as leaders from both parties warned of a violent escalation that could push the territories toward a wider civil conflict.
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New figures show violent crime rising in the third quarter of last year and an increase in firearms offences.