NEW YORK — Naomi Campbell called on the fashion world to do its part for the Haiti relief effort — and the fashion world answered: There will be a charity catwalk show pairing top models and designers at New York Fashion Week.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson's doctor, who is expected to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer's death, is negotiating his surrender to authorities, his attorney said Thursday.

A former U.S. Army veteran posted bond Wednesday and is free after being charged with official misconduct, criminal sexual assault and custodial sexual assault for allegedly forcing a 27-year-old female to perform oral sex on him.

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with manslaughter, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

BOSTON — President Barack Obama's African aunt showed up in a wheelchair Thursday, a cane across her lap, for a hearing in U.S. Immigration Court to make another bid for asylum because of what her lawyer said included medical reasons.

McDonald's recently Don Thompson, head of its U.S. Division, to president and chief operating officer, the second position in the international company.

The Feb. 2 primary election is a crossroads election, one that will set the stage for how Illinois, and Chicago, face the future.

A new program launched by Chicago Public Schools is aimed at students most at-risk of becoming either a victim of violence or a violent offender.

Chicago Fire Department Commissioner John Brooks, center, was joined by Mayor Richard Daley, right, and other fire department personnel at a press conference Saturday where it was announced that two ambulances stocked with critical supplies were headed to Haiti to aid in relief efforts there.

It is long overdue for the community to put pressure on the aldermen who oppose another Walmart within the city’s limits, said Ald. Howard Brookins (21st).

Anyone who meets the requirements can apply for the thousands of jobs now available with the U.S. Census Bureau, except persons who have been convicted of a felony.

Several elected officials, whose districts are on the West Side, collectively said limited employment opportunities, youth violence and dismal high schools are issues greatly affecting their constituents.

Several Black-owned businesses found themselves homeless Thursday after an early morning fire destroyed the commercial building where they were headquartered.

U.S. Senate candidate Cheryle Jackson finished third Tuesday in the race to secure the Democratic nomination to fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, who was elected president in 2008.

Flanked by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, left, and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., right, Gov. Pat Quinn acknowledges supporters on election night. Quinn is leading Comptroller Dan Hynes in a very close race in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. At Defender press time, no winner had been declared. AP/Charles Rex Arbogast

Incumbent Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is surrounded by his family Tuesday at the W Hotel, as he gives his concession speech. Beset by political turmoil, Stroger failed to win re-election Tuesday, bringing an end to the Stroger family run at the helm of the board. Ald. Toni Preckwinkle emerged the winner. (Defender/Worsom Robinson)

Last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti is drawing help from around the world especially from local leaders and Chicago's Haitian- American community.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 people in a single day even as relief workers warn that Haitians are still dying of injuries from the Jan. 12 quake for lack of medical care.

GENEVA — The Red Cross federation says it estimates there have been 45,000-50,000 deaths in the Haitian earthquake.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday that "one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is moving toward Haiti as he continued to mobilize the U.S. response to the island's devastating earthquake.

Want to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti? Aid organizations say cash donations are best. Here are some that are accepting donations:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Desperately needed aid from around the world slowly made its way Thursday into Haiti, where supply bottlenecks and a leadership vacuum left rescuers scrambling on their own to save the trapped and injured and get relief supplies into the capital.

Chicagoland’s faith community and others continue their outpouring of relief support for the victims of the destructive Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti’s capital city of Port-Au-Prince.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides and vacant lots into safer, cleaner tent cities.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The collapse of much of Haiti's capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A 16-year-old girl pulled from the rubble more than two weeks after a deadly earthquake was in stable condition Thursday, able to eat yogurt and mashed vegetables to the surprise of doctors, who said her survival was medically inexplicable.

Chicago Fire Department Commissioner John Brooks, center, was joined by Mayor Richard Daley, right, and other fire department personnel at a press conference Saturday where it was announced that two ambulances stocked with critical supplies were headed to Haiti to aid in relief efforts there.

As support from around the globe continues to pour into the earthquake ravaged city of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, a coalition of Chicagoland faith groups banded together and announced Sunday that its main mission would be to provide aid to the Caribbean nation and partner with the natives in rebuilding their homeland.