A federal grand jury indicted a former southeast Georgia sheriff’s sergeant Thursday on civil rights charges, accusing him of using excessive force multiple times and writing ...

( KTLA) – BET has indefinitely suspended its Hip Hop and Soul Train Awards. In an interview with Billboard, BET President ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade. That erosion started with a 2013 Supreme Court decision ending the requirement that all or ...

The City Council meets Monday to discuss the future of a big proposed sports complex. Voters approved a referendum two years ...

In this chapter the author, Rochester businessman and amateur historian Franklin McDuffee (1832-1880), directly confronted the topic of intemperance, which is the excessive consumption of ...

LIMA — For the 12th time, the Lima chapter of the NAACP came together to honor select first and second-year college students with scholarships, an effort to help develop a community-based system ...

Washington Nationals pitcher Orlando Ribalta is now healthy enough to be activated from the 15-day injured list.

The Lynchburg NAACP announced they will be holding various voter registration drives across the city over the summer.

The Spaulding Turnpike southbound in Rochester is closed Sunday afternoon due to a crash.

The Killeen Branch NAACP returned from the 116th NAACP National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, more fierce than ever with an award to the branch’s youth council president for her ...

J ACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The National Folk Festival announced six additional artists appearing at the 82nd National Folk Festival in downtown Jackson from November 7-9, the first year of the event’s ...

This New Yorker is getting his dander up over a reported mountain lion roaming Rochester. Curtis Jones said he has armed himself with a baseball bat after he spotted the big cat lurking around his ...