SINCE CLAIMING last year that a black man had shot him in the shoulder, things just haven't gone well for former Philadelphia police Sgt. Robert Ralston. A little more than a month after the Overbrook shooting, the presumed hero became the department's goat when he cracked under questioning and c... Read more...
As the men of Alpha Phi Alpha were concluding their centennial celebration in 2006, thousands of men in crimson and cream and purple and gold were gearing up for theirs in 2011. By the end of July 2011, two other historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, would have hosted... Read more...
An overlooked corner of the dropout problem became more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders. Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders - 17,257 in all - left school and didn't return for ninth grade, according to the state co... Read more...
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images Harvard and ot... Read more...
Here's a video showing how the integration works: Ticketmaster just rolled out Facebook integration in its interactive seat map feature. If you sign into Facebook before you buy a ticket online, you'll be able to see which of your Facebook friends are also going and where they're sitting. A coup... Read more...
Texting and driving don't go well together – though not in the way you might think. Computer hackers can force some cars to unlock their doors and start their engines without a key by sending specially crafted messages to a car's anti-theft system. They can also snoop at where you've been b... Read more...
Chicago kids under the age of 12 would have to be in the house by 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, under a curfew crackdown proposed by three South Side aldermen Wednesday to rein in "unsupervised" children. Public Safety Committee Chairman Michelle Harris (8th) joined Aldermen Toni ... Read more...
You don't need to be a doctor or scientist to see that Americans are getting fatter and fatter. We are the United States of obesity. Twelve states now have obesity rates above 30 percent, a just-released report from Trust for America's Health shows. Even the state with the highest percentage of peo... Read more...
As an impulse buy, you might plunk down a few bucks for a Shamwow, an Aluma Wallet or a Shake Weight. But would a TV infomercial persuade you to part with thousands of dollars on a get-rich-quick scheme? There are many thousands who would and do. If there were no suckers, there wouldn't be so... Read more...