Florida A&M University supporters gathered to see the FAMU football team off as it heads to its first game of the 2012 season against Tennessee State University.
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Actor Michael Clark Duncan dead at 54
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile” and such other box office hits as “Armageddon,” ”Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda,” is dead at age […]
Hip-Hop manager Chris Lighty dies at 44
Chris Lightly died of an apparent gunshot wound on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 at his home in the Bronx borough of New York.
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FAMU, Tallahassee enjoy mild weather
Despite the Crestview campus closing due to Tropical Storm Isaac, Tallahassee Florida A&M University students enjoyed warm, sunny weather until late afternoon Tuesday. “I wasn’t expecting classes to be cancelled, but I thought it would be raining,” said Shaquella Oaddams, 21,4th year occupational therapy student from Miami, Fla. Isaac was […]
FAMU faculty arrested for fraudulent travel claims
Florida A&M Universities Director of university Events, Tammy Hamlet, faces eight counts of fraudulent per diem and travel expenses. She turned herself into the Leon County Jail Monday after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement discovered discrepancies in her submissions for reimbursement of travel vouchers between July 2010 and June […]
FAMU officials monitoring Isaac
The Florida A&M University Rural Diversity Healthcare Center, located in Crestview, will reopen Wednesday as Tropical Storm Isaac makes landfall. The complex has programs in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. All other campuses will be open. Crestview is located just north of Destin, which is expected to receive […]
Sharpton leads sermon, speaks at Social Justice Awareness event
The Reverend Al Sharpton spoke words of wisdom to a Bethel Baptist Church crowd for Social Justice Awareness Sunday evening. Sharpton emphasized three reasons why he was particularly motivated to travel to Tallahassee to speak: the Champion case, the Trayvon Martin case and voter suppression – all in Florida. […]
Sharpton leads sermon, speaks at Social Justice Awareness event
The Reverend Al Sharpton spoke words of wisdom to a Bethel Baptist Church crowd for Social Justice Awareness Sunday morning. Sharpton urged college students to take advantage of their voting rights during the upcoming November election. “Older folks tell younger folks to vote because of what we did to get here,” Sharpton said. “Don’t […]
Isaac forces cancellation of many flights in Miami
MIAMI (AP) – Hundreds of flights at Miami International Airport have been canceled because of Tropical Storm Isaac. With the storm beginning to buffet southeast Florida, about 250 arriving flights for Sunday were listed as canceled by 8:30 a.m., as were more than 200 departing flights. Inside the American Airlines […]