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How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America
The first lady went to Bowie State and addressed the graduating class. Her speech was a mix of black history and a salute to the graduates. There ...
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Dreamliner 5 things to know
>Editor's note: CNN's Thom Patterson boards the 787 Dreamliner Monday for its first commercial US domestic flight after it was grounded for battery problems. Watch for his report this afternoon on CNN.com and follow his progress on Twitter. Houston (CNN) -- Aviation fans have already named it Dreamliner 2.0. No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a ...
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More poor people now live in U.S. suburbs than cities - study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in U.S. suburbs surpassed the number of poor in cities over the past decade, driven by strong growth in overall suburban populations, according to an analysis released on ...
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Connecticut governor tells commuters to work from home this week while crash repaired
MILFORD, Conn./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of Connecticut commuters faced delays and crowded trains on Monday as Metro-North workers scrambled to repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line, caused by the collision of two ...
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Watch Rhode Island Student Disappears on Drive Home
We've narrowed it down. 300 some miles we narrowed -- down to forty. For -- -- -- forty miles from our house and and we can't find them from here this text message to Matt Reuters mother Thursday night around six is the last one she received from him. Her -- Stanley says a gas station stop in Rhode Island Josie left around 6:30 PM. State police tell the Reuters -- -- office cellphone ...
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Optimism Running High Ahead Of 49er Super Bowl Presentation
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A delegation that included San Francisco 49ers executives, regional business leaders and community advocates was en route Monday to Boston for a presentation to NFL owners of a bid to land the 2016 Super Bowl. For Super Bowl L, the 50th edition of the Super Bowl, it’s the Bay Area versus Miami. Each city will get 15 minutes to present to the NFL team owners, ...
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Sentencing Set For Former Vice Cop In Contra Costa Police Corruption Scandal
CONCORD (KCBS) – Contra Costa County’s former top vice cop was expected to find out Monday afternoon how long he would be sent to prison for robbing prostitutes and selling stolen drug ...
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Daily Madden The Raiders Gamble On Josh Cribbs
OAKLAND (KCBS) – The Oakland Raiders are hoping wide receiver and kick return specialist Josh Cribbs is as effective as he was before he had knee surgery after last season. ...
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KCBS In Depth The Role Of The FBI In The Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the lead agency, nationwide, for everything from violations of federal civil rights, hate crime prevention, color of law abuses, human trafficking and security. How does that translate in the Bay Area – home to pockets of crime, gang warfare and iconic structures that authorities consider potential terror targets? ...
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Allstate Sues 6 Physicians Medical Corporations in New York
Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013. Since 2003, Allstate has filed 47 fraud lawsuits in New York State seeking more than $235 million in damages. Allstate alleges that the defendants routinely submitted fraudulent billing for medical examinations and ...
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NFP PC Services Hires 2 Account Executives in New York
NFP Property & Casualty Services (NFPPC) recently hired two account executives in its New York office. NFPPC said Janine Fleury joined the firm as a senior account executive in the commercial lines department, handling a $6 million book of business. For eight years prior to NFPPC, Fleury was employed at York International Agency LLC, specializing in property and casualty lines of business, ...
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Ohio University Band Gives Vatican Taste Of America
VATICAN CITY, May 10 (CNA/EWTN News) .- Priests and Vatican employees opened their office windows this afternoon to find out why they were hearing trumpets and drums, and in the piazza below them they discovered the University of Ohio marching band."We thought it would be a very epic way to perform, you know. And a lot of people came to watch us," 22-year-old trumpet player Jenna Smith ...
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Burmese Presidents White House Visit a Reward for Reforms
President Barack Obama's invitation to his Burmese counterpart to meet at the White House marks a rapid diplomatic boost for Thein Sein, whom the United States removed from a blacklist of foreign officials denied entry to the country only last year. Mr. Obama also rewarded Burma's reform efforts by making the first visit to that nation by a sitting U.S. president last ...
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Kerry visiting Mideast to advance struggling Syria plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to the Mideast this week to press the case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.Kerry departs Monday for Oman. He then goes to Jordan, where he'll gather with America's closest European ...
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Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker
DENVER -; Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in ...
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Postponed US long-range missile test due Tuesday
WASHINGTON -; The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on ...
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Military sex abuse has long-term impact for vets
FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, who was raped twice while serving in the Navy, testifies before the Veterans Affairs subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington. More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for mental health and substance abuse problems connected to military sexual trauma and another 4,000 ...
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Report says poor are moving to nations suburbs
LOS ANGELES -; More poor people live in the nation's suburbs than in urban cities because of affordable housing, service-sector jobs and the increased use of housing vouchers, according to a study released ...
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Tornado-hit states brace for more bad storms
Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Two people were killed near Shawnee, Okla., and at least 39 people throughout the state were injured, according to the state's emergency management director, Albert ...
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Senators work through changes to immigration bill
WASHINGTON -; Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the ...
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NYC No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic
By Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK - The federal civil rights challenge to the contentious New York Police Department tactic of stop, question and frisk is winding down after more than nine weeks of testimony from men who say they were wrongly stopped because of their race and police officials who believe the nation's largest force operates with integrity. City attorney Heidi ...
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Asian-Americans Smart High-Incomes And ... Poor
Asian-Americans have the highest income and education levels of any racial group in the country. So it might be surprising that they have a higher poverty rate than non-Hispanic whites. Michel Martin discusses the issue with Algernon Austin of the Economic Policy Institute and Rosalind Chou, co-author ...
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Is The White House Obscuring the Truth
What did the president know and when did he know it? Those simple questions are at the heart of the scandals buffeting the White House, and they were only obscured by White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, appearing on the Sunday talk shows to represent the ...
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Proposed Calif. measure requires random doctor drug tests
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A proposed state ballot measure in California would require doctors to be randomly subjected to drug and alcohol testing. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the "Pee in the Cup" initiative is being pushed by Bob Pack, a technology mogul and former executive at AOL Inc. and NetZero Inc. His young son and daughter were killed a decade ago by a driver under the ...
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Into the American wild on guided adventures
The farthest I’ve ever felt from civilization was when I spent two nights in an old fire lookout in the Sierra Nevada of Northern California. Built in the 1930s and situated at almost 6,000 feet, the tower had tremendous views of the dense pine forest blanketing Tahoe National Forest. What I remember most was the retreat of city lights, the lack of cellphone reception and the kind of ...
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