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The neighborhood’s stalled recovery is the self-fulfilling prophecy of political leaders who wrote it off from the start.   A block and a half separate Henry Irvin’s 
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The city has granted more than 24,000 demolition permits since Katrina. The Nation partnered with The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans, to explore the fate of those properties.

Justin Gatlin could not get close to Usain Bolt in the 200m final in Beijing – but it appears he might have had better luck if he had been on a Segway and armed with a camera. Bolt streaked cle

The mother of the gunman who murdered two journalists on live TV had violent “outbursts” when he was a child and had threatened to kill her husband and her kids, court papers charge. The

Zoe Kravitz is coming into her own as an actress and musician, but there’s still an elephant in the room about one of her parents. Enter Lisa Bonet. Bonet has been mum ever since the rape allega

Your World/National News Day 22 August 2015 Napa Valley, CA   LOL! However, a group of women who boarded the NAPA Valley Wine Train were told to tone down their loud laughing or else they w

Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden received President Barack Obama's "blessing" to make a 2016 bid for the White House, according to a senior Democrat. But that's if Biden chooses to run -- the

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    The CEO of the Napa Valley Train is admitting that his employees messed up big time and is now offering the women of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge Book Club an exclus

  FOLLOW   Shawn & Sharonda Stockman: Winning The Fight For Micah’s Voice   There’s no testimony without

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Your World News Day 25 August 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland   Multiple casualites occured by a chemical leak at the East Sands Lesiure Center in St. Andrews.  15 people were among the casual

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          4,500 Babies Saved From Abortions After Texas De-Funds Planned Parenthood  STATE     STEVEN ERTELT   A

Bartholomew means "son of the furrow," or a plowman in literal Hebrew. Bartholomew was not the saint's given name, but it comes from the father's name, Tholomew or Tolmai. "Bar" meaning (in Hebrew) "s