Martin Luther King Day News

Cherif Keita, Carleton College professor of French studies, spent last weekend in Paris, showing the documentary film he has made regarding John L. Dube.

A slow economy is affecting local festivals, but a decrease in festival number, and size, could also affect the local economy.

Memorial Day is many things. Ita TMs our first holiday since New Years, unless you get time off for Martin Luther King Day.

CEDAR CITY - Budget accommodations and talks with the city regarding an agreement for the aquatic center topped the agenda during the last Iron County School Board meeting of the school year on Tuesday.

Jim Splaine just doesn't give up. The odds are rarely with Splaine: The 61-year-old Portsmouth legislator has spent most of his 40-year career in public life as just one of 400 in the New Hampshire House, and much of that time he's been the leading legislator on liberal political causes that appear lost.

I recently had one of the toughest speeches of my career. It was a three hour afternoon session on Martin Luther King day in Baltimore, Maryland.

I've never heard students complain of anti-Israel sentiments at UC Santa Barbara.

Apr 23, 2009 6:26 pm US/Eastern LIBERTY CITY Three months after what has been called the worst mass shooting in Miami's history, homicide detectives are still struggling to find witnesses as well as a motive in the mayhem that killed two people and wounded seven others.

A former guard at a federal prison beat his 5-year-old daughter to death when he lost his temper while disciplining her, prosecutors argued on Tuesday in Kanawha Circuit Court.

President Barack Obama has made national and community service a cornerstone of his vision for transforming our country.

The offices at Georgia Cancer Specialists collected 5,159 bags during the seventh annual "Totes 2 Tots" suitcase drive for foster children.

The Voices-n-Harmony Gospel Choir sang a concert for Martin Luther King Day this year.

The school board approved a school calendar that features a post-Labor Day start for students.

Here we are in the middle of a Martin Luther King day in the US, and assuredly, the one question on your mind is "Exactly how old are those guys at 'Soup, anyway?". Well, age is really relative, especially if you're 40, like a guy I know pretty well.

Whether it's a longer Thanksgiving break, nixing Memorial Day as a holiday or using Martin Luther King Day for teacher in-service, Brazoria County school districts are looking at different ways to spend 180 days in class.

Forget Carnegie Hall. The place to hear a deep, melodious, booming voice is a lot closer to home.

After months of searching for a Fort Pierce man, police finally have him behind bars.

Marietta City Council may consider some policy changes after a Ridge Street resident was charged $70 for an emergency water shutoff that took less than half an hour to perform.

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At its Feb.18 public meeting, the Petersburg School Board recognized three "little brothers" and three "big brothers," in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, who made a special contribution on Martin Luther ...