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Rev. Jesse Jackson presses for death resolution
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is pushing Saginaw authorities to take stronger action in the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill man in a parking lot. Mlive.com (http://bit.ly/QFYvEh ) says he'll address a news conference at 12:30...Tags: John Conyers, Jr.
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Police: Man shot in squad car called girlfriend
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Jonesboro say the girlfriend of a man shot to death in the back of a squad car told an investigator he had called her from the car and said he had a gun. In a four-page statement police offered several new details...Tags: Police Investigations, Prosecution, Witnesses, Drug Trafficking, Murder
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Buttigieg, Rainbow PUSH Coalition meet over SBPD wiretap case
Focus is changing in the South Bend Police Department wiretap probe. After a meeting Friday with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH coalition, emphasis shifted away from department's personnel uproar and zeroed in on...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Rainbow PUSH, sans Jackson, focus on city meeting over SBPD wiretap case
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterThe Rev. Jesse Jackson won't be here Tuesday, but representatives from the civil rights group he founded are still planning to attend the South Bend Common Council meeting that evening. Rainbow PUSH Coalition officials announced last week they intend ...Tags: FBI, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Murder charge brought in Trayvon Martin case
Associated Press ReportersJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Amid furious public pressure to make an arrest in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the special prosecutor on the case went for the maximum Wednesday, bringing a second-degree murder charge against the neighborhood watch...Tags: Prosecution, George Zimmerman, CNN (tv network), Trayvon Martin, Prisons
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Baptist leader criticizes Trayvon Martin support
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm has condemned the response of many black leaders to the Trayvon Martin case as "shameful." Some black pastors within the nation's largest Protestant...Tags: Religion and Belief, Baptist, Protestant Convention, Christianity, Al Sharpton
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Jackson asks US to probe Benton Harbor takeover
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging the U.S. Justice Department to intervene in the state's financial takeover of the impoverished southwestern Michigan city of Benton Harbor.
The leader of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Church and State Relations, Michigan, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice
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Danny Glover in South Africa for Aristide
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The lawyer of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide says actor Danny Glover has arrived in South Africa to escort the exiled former president home. Miami lawyer Ira Kurzban flew to Johannesburg Wednesday on the same mission amid...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Harry Belafonte, Lawyers, Danny Glover
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Historic reading of Constitution sees House tussle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans made history Thursday by staging the first-ever reading of the entire Constitution on the House floor. But that record may come with an asterisk: Democrats asked why original sections that later were amended,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Politics, NBC (tv network), Bob Goodlatte, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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Constitution reading provokes political tussling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats took turns politely in a historic recitation of the Constitution from the House floor Thursday, but the decorum hardly meant they were in agreement. In a nod to the tea partiers who put the Republicans...Tags: Politics, Bob Goodlatte, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Human Interest, Hawaii
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Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin attends Pistons game with Jesse Jackson
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Queen of Soul came out to watch King James — and Dwyane Wade, too. Aretha Franklin was on hand Friday night when LeBron James and the Miami Heat visited the Detroit Pistons. She sat in the second row next to...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Detroit Pistons, Radio, Human Interest, Athletes
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George Zimmerman trial: Jurors share concerns, and opinions, on Trayvon Martin shooting
SANFORD — Seminole County residents poured into the criminal courthouse last week as potential jurors for the trial of George Zimmerman. By the dozens, most were sent back home. The first week of jury selection focused on pretrial publicity:...
Tags: George Zimmerman, Politics, Interior Policy, Justice System, Seminole County Sheriff's Office
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