Group Works to Save Black Officers' Club
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Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne performed there, and heavyweight champ Joe Louis boxed out front. But today the paint is flaking off the World War II-era Colored Officers' Club at the Army's Fort Huachuca, plywood covers the windows and doors, trash is piled inside and it's surrounded by knee-high dry grass.
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By Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 5--RALEIGH -- News of a Raleigh police officer's derelict rental houses brought dismay and confusion sunday from City Council members, who promised to push for tougher rules and more reports on problem landlords.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--BAY ST. LOUIS -- The 10-year anniversary of when Charles Gray first pushed his idea of a historic preservation ordinance to the Bay City Council is this summer.
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 21--Four residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep Cusseta-Chattahoochee County from creating a police department.
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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Supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are lining up to make their case before the D.C. Council.
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The organization will let fans help call the shots on an upcoming pay-per-view event.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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The United Negro College Fundâs slogan remains a powerful ad message 35 years after its debut. The groupâs name, however, has become a source of alienation.
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More searches of black suspects are needed to stop gun crime, the head of the Black Police Association says.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 17--Conservation groups and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration are considering ways to save a 387-acre tract on the Northern Neck that a Girl Scout organization wants to sell.
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The city's police department, tarnished in the past by charges of brutality and racism, is defending itself against fresh criticism over how often officers decide whom to stop and search on the streets.
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A group trying to prevent closure of the trauma center at an inner-city medical center filed a discrimination lawsuit, alleging the county is trying to dismantle the troubled hospital.
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When a special space has become threatened, a collective force has been there ready to lend energy, money and time to preservation.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 22--Folks are in a snit about a rezoning request by not-for-profit Covenant Community Development Corp. for an area near the corner of Sexton Road and North Garth Avenue.
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MORE than 5000 building workers and asbestos victims have rallied outside a general meeting for embattled building products company James Hardie in central Sydney today.