May 24 2012 - Inside the Bus During Fla. Drum Major's Fatal Hazing
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion endured a brutal pummeling down the aisle of a pitch black bus that rocked from the force of the violence inside. He fought through a gauntlet of "friends" and band mates who used their fists, feet, straps and sticks to pound him unconsciousness. It was part of a culture that considers repeated "hot seat" beatings and the final "crossing over" gauntlet that ... |
May 24 2012 - Inside Bus C: FAMU drum major's hazing
Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion walked into the darkness of Bus C in a parking lot in Orlando, Florida, last fall in the hope of gaining respect from his fellow band members. It was his time to "cross-over." Hours later, he died. |
May 24 2012 - Interviews detail harrowing rites for Marching 100 members on night of Champion's death
By Jennifer Portman Democrat senior writer -- The November weekend of the Florida Classic football game in Orlando, six members of Florida A&M's famed Marching 100 "crossed Bus C" — voluntarily taking off their shirts to be beaten by fellow band members as they fought in the dark to reach the back of a parked bus as part of a years-long tradition to earn respect. |
May 23 2012 - Anxious hunt for OWSer
A family is desperately searching for their teenage daughter who vanished from an Occupy Wall Street cross-country junket 17 days ago. Stevie Bates, 19, borrowed a cellphone April 27 to call her mother, Vivian, of Yonkers, while on a Greyhound bus layover in Pittsburgh. “She said that she would be... |
May 22 2012 - Wilkes-Barre homeless man back from cross-country trip
Homeless man back from Ore. WILKES-BARRE - He's back. Robert Esser, the transient 83-year-old, has returned to Wilkes-Barre after a cross-country train and bus trip. "I got homesick," Mr. Esser explained Monday while eating lunch at the St. Vincent de P |
May 22 2012 - 'Homesick' transient returns to Wilkes-Barre
WILKES-BARRE - He's back. Robert Esser, the transient 83-year-old featured in Monday's edition of The Citizens' Voice, has returned to Wilkes-Barre after a cross-country train and bus trip. |
May 22 2012 - Mexican firm's bankruptcy case has cross-border impact
Investors and financial analysts have their eyes on a bankruptcy case, pending in a Dallas courtroom, that they say could systematically shift how American firms do business with Mexican companies. YouTube Video: No YouTube read more |
May 21 2012 - OSU reports minor violations
COLUMBUS -- Some will look at the 46 secondary violations committed by Ohio State across 21 sports during the past year and see the athletic department having more trouble abiding by NCAA rules. |
May 21 2012 - Bus 52: Knitting Behind Bars
As students and teachers settle into the quiet hum of the knitting circle, a cloud of relaxed calm falls across the group. Lynn and Sheila's knitting class is like many others across the country. Except theirs takes place in prison and their students are inmates. |
May 20 2012 - Redemption road
By the time the bus rolled into The South Warehouse early Tuesday evening, new Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork would have had good reason to say he'd just walk back to Oxford. |
May 20 2012 - Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Operating Results
UNCASVILLE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, or the Authority, the owner and operator of Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, and Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, announced today the operating results for its second quarter ended March 31, 2012. “We are quite pleased with our results for the quarter,” said Mitchell Grossinger Etess, Chief ... |
May 18 2012 - School board favors tweaking middle school boundary line
For years, students in the north-central part of the Lawrence school district have been bused across the city to attend Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. On Monday night, parents asked the school board to change the boundary so their children could attend West Middle School. |
May 18 2012 - Mass transit cuts may hurt WMass most
A coalition of transit advocates are rallying on Beacon Hill, protesting against fare hikes and services cuts that are being proposed or enforced in transit systems across the state. |
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