Tuskegee News

Tuskegee businessman Howard Burton is a political novice, but he believes his educational background and experience as president of a national organization have equipped him to advocate for the people who live in state Senate District 28.

Merrily Hewett pauses before entering Milwaukie High School for Living History Day.

The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance .

In all his years in the U.S. Air Force and even after he got out, Lt. Col. Lloyd B. McKeethen used to hear this all the time: "You're the best damn mechanic I've ever had." That compliment followed him all over Europe during a nearly 30-year career in the Air Force, and it followed him when he retired from a civilian job working for ...

An undercover sting operation and months of investigating have landed Macon County one of its biggest drug indictments in history.

William Curtis, Jr. was indicted along with fellow officer John Moon Tuesday in a specially called session of the Macon County Grand Jury Tuesday.

Newspaper publisher Paul Davis has resigned from the Alabama Department of Mental Health's board of trustees after learning the board's meetings are not open to the public.

JACKSON, Tenn. --- Joshua Harris was 14-of-21 for 191 yards and three touchdowns to lead Tuskegee to a 40-6 win over Lane College on Saturday.

Back in 1927, when he was 4 years old, William Holloman was swept up in the excitement of Charles Lindbergh's cross-Atlantic flight and all the attention it brought him.

Area historians were recog nized recently by the Air Force Historical Foundation for their efforts in correcting a historical error in an account of the first two Tuskegee Airmen killed in combat.

In this Aug. 25, 2008 file photo, Toni Loew, 6, gets carrots at a market for her school lunch, in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson: Tells Tuskegee University crowd the 'predators' have gotten a bailout, now the regular people need one.

About 190 members of the Alabama Army National Guard's 158th Maintenance Company from Tallassee and Tuskegee will return to their home armories Sunday morning after nearly a year in Iraq.

Tuskegee University police officer Lt. John David Moon, 45, of Tuskegee, has been charged with raping a young girl at approximately 5 a.m. on Sunday, October 18, while off campus and off duty.

After a two-day trial a Macon County jury deliberated nearly three hours before rendering a murder verdict against James Gregory Sears of Tuskegee.

Tuskegee again approached its friends for help last week, and again they stepped up to the plate. But with questions of accountability circling city officials, it’s becoming increasingly obvious some of the city’s relationships are beginning to strain. And some are right on the cusp of breaking apart.

A Tuskegee University police officer is on suspension after charges of raping a young girl were filed against him.

Author and talk show host Tavis Smiley has been chosen to be the speaker at Tuskegee University's homecoming.

I think yesterday is the day the band Chicago had in mind when they wrote their song "Saturday in the Park." Granted yesterday was Sunday, and it was nowhere near the Fourth of July, but it was beautiful weather for an afternoon outdoors.

SHORTER - The Rev. Jesse Jackson will award 24 Rainbow Coalition "PUSH for Excellence" scholarships valued at $1,000 each to students from Alabama State University and Tuskegee University Monday.