It had all started out when I found myself blocked, unable to get started on an end-of-the-term paper for my philosophy class at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. The topic I had chosen was tracing Martin Luther King’s political roots back through the thought and practice of Indian independence....

As Ekiti State governorship election draws near, the tempo of political activities has increased. According to the timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the election will hold on July 14 this year. Aside from the two major political parties, that is, the ruling....

Email items to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at least 10 working days in advance. All venues must include a complete address. Activities in which a fee is charged must include how proceeds will be used. Today. • Retired and Senior Volunteer Program bake sale begins 7:30 a.m. in Florence/Lauderdale Government Building, Court Street, Florence.

Two weeks after Australia was caught cheating in a cricket Test match, a Gold Coast doctor has done her bit to make it up to a South African family at the Commonwealth Games. South African mum Priscilla Smith was devastated when she was told tickets her family had been promised by the South African....

Emerald Dance Center , 2095 Yolanda in Springfield, is holding several upcoming square dancing events: a Buccaneers Plus Dance with pre-rounds at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 6, $5; a Wolf Pack’s Bunny Dance April 7 with prerounds at 7:30 p.m., $5; Dan Nordbye Special Square Dance April 10, prerounds at 7:30, $7; and Wolf Pack’s Earth Day Dance, 7:30 p.

The future of a Catholic Maori high school with only one pupil has been put in doubt after a collapse in student numbers. Co-educational Hato Petera College at Northcote on Auckland's North Shore has struggled to attract students and now has just one. It receives taxpayer money under its status as an integrated school.

Once upon a time a corrupt or violent cop was virtually a protected species for there were no outsiders looking in and no insiders speaking out. It seems staggering but for more than 100 years there were no dedicated (or even bone lazy) internal investigators looking at police behaviour, for it was....

One person died Wednesday night after a car being pursued by Buffalo police crashed into a church on Genesee Street, according to the Buffalo Police Department. A passenger, identified only as a male, died after the vehicle smashed into the Mount Zion Community Sanctuary, at 1549 Genesee near....

ROCK HILL, S.C. - Dozens of firefighters worked for nearly an hour to put out flames at a Rock Hill church early Thursday morning. Fire crews were called just after 6:15 a.m. to the Gospel Light Baptist Church on West Main Street and found heavy smoke and flames coming from the church.

Gracey Chafin, a sixth-grader at Leavelle McCampbell Middle School in Graniteville, is one of South Carolina’s top two youth volunteers for 2018 as part of the 23rd-annual Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. S.C. Rep. Ronnie Young, R-Aiken, presents Gracey Chafin, a sixth-grader at Leavelle....