Speculation about “Senate Candidate 5”–mentioned in the federal criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich–being U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-2nd) was confirmed Wednesday by Jackson’s attorney.
The question of who will succeed President-elect Barack Obama for Illinios in the U.S. Senate became clouded by the Tuesday arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges.
When it comes to collecting $2.8 billion owed in child support in Illinois, state collectors admit they have a long way to go, but they feel they are moving in the right direction.
You would think with a moniker like the “Great Pooh-Dini” that Derrick Rose would be a perfect candidate to headline this story. But Rose, who finished with a respectable 15 points and eight assist, would have to share the spotlight on Saturda
LONDON–In the wake of the terrorist killings of nearly 300 people at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, India early this month, Black leaders are pressing for more information and cautioning African Americans to be clear that they are not exempt as targ
Beleaguered Louisiana lawmaker William Jefferson has lost his bid to remain in office. The veteran congressman, caught up in a 2007 indictment charging him with taking $500,000 in bribes, was ousted Saturday from his New Orleans district in elections that
WASHINGTON—President-elect Barack Obama wants to make something very clear: The economy is not going to immediately recover when he takes his oath of office, but he has a plan to get the country moving.
The creditor of a Chicago plant where laid-off employees are conducting a sit-in to demand severance pay said Tuesday it would extend limited loans to the factory so it could resolve the dispute, but the workers declared their protest unfinished.
NEW YORK–Odetta’s monumental voice rang out in August 1963 when she sang I’m on My Way at the historic March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his I Have a Dream speech.
