Diallo cops to get their turn with the Justice Department
Lawyers for the four New York City police officers acquitted in the fatal shooting of a black man said they will meet with Attorney General Janet Reno's top deputy Monday and urge him not to pursue civil rights charges.
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Vote may give 'reparations' to poor section of San Francisco
In a city known for its social conscience, some San Franciscans think Proposition F goes too far. Supporters, though, say Tuesday's ballot measure authorizing "reparations" to a poor neighborhood is justified following decades of civic neglect and economic racism.
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News helicopter crashes in suburban Miami, killing 2
A television news helicopter crashed and burned in a suburban neighborhood Friday, killing the pilot and cameraman.
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With poems, flowers and tears, mourners remember Kayla
In a child's scrawl, the spelling not quite right, a poem propped on an easel near 6-year-old Kayla Rolland's gold-trimmed white casket Friday remembered the slain first-grader.
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Death row inmate whose lawyer slept at trial to stay in jail
Two days after a federal judge ordered death row inmate Calvin Burdine freed because Texas prosecutors missed a deadline to retry him, an appeals court has blocked his release.
"We believe this is the correct decision," Texas Attorney General John Cornyn in a statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The state plans to reprosecute Burdine, who has been on death row for 16 years.
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