HOUSTON – Hurricane Gustav’s punch appeared to fall softly Monday on the vast energy complex along the U.S. Gulf Coast, alleviating fears of a fuel shortage and potentially delivering a break to businesses and consumers. As winds passed over land and winds began to subside, oil market traders began to […]

CAMDEN, New Jersey – Prosecutors say a man shot four people to death in an apparent domestic dispute in Camden, New Jersey, on Labor Day before committing suicide. Camden County prosecutor’s office spokesman Jason Laughlin says the victims of Monday’s shooting were all related. There was yellow police tape around […]

Guarantees are usually restricted to professional athletes and very rarely trickle down to the ranks of collegiate athletics. During the Labor Day Classic press conference however, the unwrtitten rule must have slipped Texas Southern’s head coach Johnie Cole’s mind as he promised victory in the 24th Annual Labor Day Classic […]

1.How many people were dropped like a bad habit? 2.Who actually thinks that the new financial aid system will work? 3.Haven’t they been trying to come up with a new system since 2004? 4.Will this new system come with phones that they will actually answer? 5.Or new voicemails to help […]

Gentlemen, ask yourselves this question: If there are two girls, they both have the same type of beauty: cute face, shape, and everything. Which one would you approach? However, the only difference between these two gorgeous young ladies is one is dark skinned and the other is light skinned. Ladies, […]

Human immunodeficiency virus, otherwise known as HIV, is defined as a latent virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Although HIV and AIDS can and do affect all sectors of American society, the impact has been more serious among some groups […]

Prairie View A&M University might be located in a small town, but that doesn’t mean that crimes don’t occur here. One crime in particular that a few young women on campus take for granted is rape. Unfortunately, there is always one who ends up becoming a victim. Protecting yourself from […]

CARROLLTON, Texas – Maria Martinez’ attempt to land a cafeteria job at a suburban Dallas hospital got her arrested, jailed and deported. She used a counterfeit social security number on her application to Trinity Medical Center, but her relatives and supporters wonder whether the hospital overreacted by calling the police. […]

SAN ANTONIO – Relieved and upbeat, President George W. Bush declared Monday that the government had responded “a lot better” to Hurricane Gustav than it did to deadly Hurricane Katrina, which obliterated the Gulf Coast three years ago and damaged his administration’s credibility for handling major crises. Eager to show […]

CHICAGO – Koyie Hill may have been the happiest callup of all when the Chicago Cubs expanded their roster Monday for the final month of the season. Just to be in a major league uniform, any baseball uniform really, seemed unlikely a little more than 10 months ago when Hill […]