A court date has not been set for a dorm clerk charged with molesting two teenage boys. Corey Deshawn Reed , 24, an office clerk at Paddyfote and Truth Halls, was released Friday night from Leon County Jail on $28,000 bail. He was charged with sexual assault on a victim […]

The nation’s food industry is about to get an oil change. Makers of fast foods and packaged foods are looking for ways to reduce trans fats, oils that can boost “bad” cholesterol levels. And the federal government is readying regulations that will require nutrition labels to include the amount of […]

Clippers Barber Shop is still “fading out the competition” at its new College Square Plaza location, said the owners, staff and customers. Additions at the new location include a large mural featuring services available at the shop, a signature “C” engraved in the shop’s floor, lavender walls and track lighting. […]

In the Greek myth, Zeus gave Pandora a box as a wedding gift but told her not to open it. She did, and released all the evils of the world. To open the movie “Pandora’s Box” is to discover overacting, gratuitous sex scenes and reprisals of other black films. The […]

If the Major League Baseball playoffs start, and no one is around to watch because everyone’s attention is focused on football, do the playoff games count? In case you hadn’t noticed, baseball’s playoffs are less than a week away. I know. It caught me by surprise, too. For the past […]

I’ll confess. I’m no sports fan. Recently, however, I found myself drawn to a photograph in the USA Today sports section picturing a lean, handsome, middle-aged man with warm eyes and the smile of a winner. Between two sinewy fingers was a gold medal. On another, he wore a championship […]

Shaundelyn “Shaun” DeGraffenreidt spends hours on the track practicing a cheer routine with one goal in mind: to win this year’s Black College National Cheerleading Championship. The 18-year-old freshman said she doesn’t do it for the glory, trophy or media exposure but in hopes of proving to students, faculty and […]

During Homecoming festivities last year at the Greek Step Show, men’s track and field head coach Rey Robinson was looking everywhere for his athletes. Alongside him was Robert “Bullet Bob” Hayes, known as “The World’s Fastest Human” in the 1960s – a FAMU alumnus. Robinson was trying to introduce Hayes […]

FAMU alumnus Bob Hayes, a track and football star in the 1960s who went on to a successful career with the Dallas Cowboys, died of heart failure Wednesday night in his hometown of Jacksonville. Hayes, who battled with prostate cancer and liver problems over the past year and a half, […]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Academy Award for Best Actor in a romantic thriller goes to Robin Williams. It is safe to say that he has done it again. By this I mean Williams has delivered another Oscar deserving performance. In “One Hour Photo” Williams takes a simple plot and turns […]