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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department said Monday that Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer James "Fergie" Ferguson, a civil rights attorney and native of Asheville, North Carolina, passed away on July 21, 2025, at the age of 82. Born in 1942 in the Jim Crow South, Ferguson became a figure in the struggle for educational equity, civil rights, and legal reform in the United States and abroad. Ferguson began his activism early, leading the Asheville Student Committee on Racial

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1536"] Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 15, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)[/caption] BY: JENNIFER SHUTT | NC Newsline WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress. U.S. District Court for the District

WASHINGTON - Republicans' "big, beautiful" law will add $3.394 trillion to deficits during the next decade and lead 10 million people to lose access to health insurance, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The updated assessment of the sweeping tax and spending cuts law came weeks after nearly every GOP lawmaker voted to approve the legislation ahead of a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. The

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights movement. Files were posted, opens new tab on the website of the National Archives, which

By Karl Cameron Contributing Writer Driving in the 200 block of South Pettigrew St. gives you the impression that this is a typically quiet residential neighborhood. However, that has not been the case for Vietnam Veteran Leroy Mitchiner in the many years he has lived in the neighborhood. Drug activity, threats on his life, assaults on he and his son, are all a part of a kind of neighborhood terrorism

NC Newsline - The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it would release some frozen federal grant funds for after-school programs, following lawsuits from 24 states and pressure from 10 Republican senators. The freeze, announced by the Trump administration earlier this month, affects programs like 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a federal program that supports afterschool programs for low-income students in North Carolina. State education advocates had warned that about

By Ms Jheri Worldwide  Staff Writer For some, the path in life is a straight line. For others, it is a winding, uncertain, and often challenging road. It is on that meandering path, however, that a journey of true self-discovery often unfolds. This is the story of  Tyrone Hall, a Clinton, North Carolina native whose journey began with a life-altering diagnosis and led him through cartography, medical illustration, and corporate

NNPA-A report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that Black Americans continue to face serious challenges in saving for retirement, even as their incomes grow. The 2025 Retirement Confidence Survey, which included a special oversample of Black workers and retirees, found that the wealth gap remains wide at every income level. Among households earning $75,000 or more, only 33% of Black Americans reported having $250,000 or more in savings

By: Neely Tucker Library of Congress On the pleasant winter day of Jan. 17, 1872, Mary Virginia Montgomery, the precocious 21-year-old daughter of one of Mississippi's largest cotton planters, used her diary to record the day's activities on Brierfield, the family's sprawling cotton plantation south of Vicksburg. "Brierfield is so beautiful this morning," she wrote in her careful penmanship. "… I spent fully two hours practicing [piano] after dinner. …