by Brian Kaylor | Jan 23, 2012 | News
Upending the Republican presidential race, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich easily won Saturday’s South Carolina primary. His double-digit victory capped off a dramatic rise in the polls after he trailed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the...
by Trevor Barton | Jan 17, 2012 | Opinion
I love the history of baseball. During recess, I teach my elementary school students about whiffle ball because it was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. During the school year, I teach them about the people, places and moments that make baseball history...
by Stephanie Barry | Dec 26, 2011 | News
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) The second of three city men termed “shiftless and pathetic” by a judge was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for burning a local black church to the ground in the predawn hours after President Barack Obama was elected. Michael F. Jacques...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 12, 2011 | Opinion
My grandpa grew up on a dairy farm in Greenville, S.C. He was born in 1917, so he was a teenager during the Great Depression and at the beginning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term as president and the New Deal. He had three sisters and four brothers; the...
by Bill Webb | Dec 5, 2011 | News
Thirty-six Baptists – including blacks and whites – gathered to express their concerns about racism in the St. Louis area and beyond during a session of a regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant II. St. Luke Memorial Baptist Church in St. Louis hosted one of...
