TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson is resigning from the job he’s held for a year, his time marked by glitches in the state’s school grading system and standardized testing program. Robinson, who came to Florida from Virginia, wrote that he could not overcome living apart from […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – Colorado prosecutors on Monday charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. James Holmes appeared just as dazed as he did in his first […]

NEW DELHI (AP) – Northern India’s power grid crashed Monday, halting trains, forcing hospitals and airports onto backup power and providing a dark reminder of the nation’s inability to feed a growing hunger for energy as it strives to become an economic power. While the midsummer outage was unique in […]

Rev. O. Jermaine Simmons Sr., pastor of Jacob Chapel Baptist Church in Tallahassee, will serve as Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) summer commencement speaker. Commencement will be held on Friday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m. in the Alfred Lawson Jr. Multipurpose Center and Teaching Gymnasium. As a fourth generation preacher and […]

Thanks to a $5.6 million grant from the federal government, Florida A&M is creating a cancer research center to study the disease and to train pharmacy students in information gathering and community outreach. FAMU’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is already establishing its Center of Excellence for Cancer Research Training […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Penn State football was all but leveled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno’s victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent uncounted years molesting children, sometimes on university property. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it’s possible to virtually eliminate HIV-infected births and the U.S. is donating $80 million in new funding to help poor countries reach that goal. Treating HIV-infected women so that they protect their babies is a key part of the Obama […]

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) – President Barack Obama is cutting short a Florida campaign swing following the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting. The rampage has shaken up the presidential race. Obama issued a statement calling the shooting “horrific”. Republican Mitt Romney said he also was dismayed. Informed at dawn […]

For students in Florida A&M’s First-Year Experience program, the transition to college is much easier thanks to mentors who talk to them about life skills, career planning and job preparation, organizers say. Hundreds of incoming freshmen are participating in FYE over the summer as part of their college preparatory training […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Director Christopher Nolan expressed sorrow and devastation Friday as the movie industry grappled with the deadly Colorado shooting at a midnight screening of Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” one of the most anticipated films in years now enmeshed with a horrifying tragedy. “I would like to […]