ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Monday signed an order ending an ownership dispute over the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s traveling Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal that had essentially pitted the slain civil rights leader’s two sons against their sister. In this Feb. 6, 2006, file photo, From left to right, the children […]
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King Siblings’ Legal Battle: Court to Control MLK Bible and Nobel Peace Prize
ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize should be placed in a safe deposit box controlled by the court pending the outcome of a legal dispute over who owns the items, a judge said Wednesday. The dispute marks the latest in a string of legal battles between the siblings. The […]
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Martin Luther King’s Children Battling over Estate
ATLANTA (AP) — A generation after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his children are fighting among themselves again, this time over two of their father’s most cherished possessions: his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried. The civil rights leader’s daughter Bernice King has both items, and her brothers, Dexter […]
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Prosecutor Reviewing Facts in Black Ga. Schoolboy Athlete Death
MACON, Ga. (AP) — A federal prosecutor said Thursday that he is conducting a formal review of facts and evidence in the death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. U.S. Attorney Michael Moore said that if he uncovers sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal […]
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Teen Guilty of Murdering Georgia Baby in Stroller
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) – An 18-year-old man was convicted of murder in the shooting of a baby who was riding in a stroller alongside his mom in a town in coastal Georgia despite the defense’s attempt to cast guilt upon several others, including the child’s parents. Jurors deliberated about two hours before finding De’Marquise Elkins guilty […]
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Prosecutors: 5 People Conspired to Murder Atlanta Rapper Lil Phat
ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta rapper was shot dead in a car outside a hospital where his fiancee was due to give birth in what prosecutors say was an elaborate murder-for-hire plot involving gang members, a former Russian mobster and a basketball star. Melvin Vernell III — known as Lil Phat — was killed after […]
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3 Dozen Indicted in Atlanta Cheating Scandal
ATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help. “I don’t want your answers, I want to take my own test,” Juwanna told her teacher, according to Fulton […]
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Megachurch Pastor Creflo Dollar Arrested
ATLANTA (AP) — Megachurch pastor and televangelist Creflo Dollar was arrested early Friday after authorities say he slightly hurt his 15-year-old daughter in a fight at his metro Atlanta home. Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of domestic violence at the home in unincorporated Fayette County around 1 a.m., Investigator Brent Rowan said. […]
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Emory African-American Studies Scholar Rudolph Byrd dies at 58
ATLANTA (AP) — Rudolph Byrd was known among academic colleagues as an excellent scholar who believed that the key to change was education. The Emory University professor and African-American studies expert was a founding co-chair of the Alice Walker Literary Society with Beverly Guy-Sheftall of Spelman College and helped bring the literary archive of the […]