Nooses Seen More Frequently After Louisiana Town's Strife
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When he reached his third-story workstation at a construction site near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, Errol Madyun saw the noose -- thick, neatly knotted and strong enough to hang a man.
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Violence and political instability are growing in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. More than seven months after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country, political polarization
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Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."
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By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jen Aronoff and Victoria Cherrie, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--LENOIR -- Eugene and Violet Anderson were home last spring when a van pulled up and the mayor, a county commissioner and several others piled out.
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The increase in crime since Hurricane Katrina has been enough, but tension between the Police Department and the District Attorney is making things even worse
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Under a barrage of questions from House Judiciary Committee members, a federal prosecutor said yesterday that the hanging of nooses at a high school in Jena, La., constituted a hate crime but that charges were not brought because the students allegedly responsible were juveniles.
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A little county with a reputation for big lawsuits &#151; some call it a "judicial hellhole" &#151; is getting a visit from a man who wants to make it much tougher to sue somebody.
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By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--Residents of Tacoma's Central Area neighborhoods say they've grown tired of drug sellers and drug users loitering around neighborhood businesses.   People worry about their safety. They're concerned for their children.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - Every month, hundreds of people are summoned to courts across the nation&#39;s most populous county for a public scolding.
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Things are looking up for six black teens charged with trying to kill a white classmate last year after a Louisiana court vacated the conviction of one of the men. But national civil-rights advocates say something remains very amiss in the small town.
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By Roselee Papandrea, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Feb. 7--There were 50 fewer inmates in the Onslow County Jail Tuesday night.   And if all goes as planned, the once-overcrowded jail may be close to the number it was meant to accommodate when it was expanded in 1988.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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New Orleans is a city on a knife's edge. A year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, an alarming number of residents are leaving or seriously thinking of getting out for good.
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
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For weeks, Mychal Bell expected to find out his punishment Thursday for his alleged role in a school beating that has thrust racial tensions in a tiny Southern town into the national spotlight -- and onto the political stage.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors have decided to cast a new eye on beach vendors, once a familiar site from Biloxi to Pass Christian before vanishing with Hurricane Katrina.
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HOMER CITY, Pa.  When the screeching of claws against metal fences becomes too much to bear, when they no longer can tolerate the cacophony of howling and whining that rumbles across this former coal-mining town, Bob Alexander's neighbors have been known to march up his gravel driveway, past 70 h...