This year’s Florida A&M University men’s basketball team has six new freshmen, and the seniors will try to pull the team together with their leadership. “We have a very young team,” said Lamar Twitty, a senior forward from Fort Lauderdale. “I tell them it’s a great feeling winning the MEAC […]

While many focused on the presidential election, the race for Circuit Judge of Leon county’s 2nd District ended with a victory for Frank E. Sheffield. He won with 51.55 percent of the vote, compared to Lisa Raleigh who had 48.45 percent of the vote. As he replaced former Circuit Judge […]

After decades of being dominated by Democrat representatives, Republican candidate, Peter Boulware, took the 9th seat in the House of Representatives in a nail biting victory over Democratic candidate, Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda. “The way my family has helped me through has been great,” Boulware said. “I lean on my wife […]

Circuit City Stores, Inc. will be closing 155 stores nationwide and withdrawing from 12 U.S media markets. “We deeply regret the impact that this announcement will have on our associates, our guests and the communities where these stores are located,” said James Marcum, vice chairman, acting president, and chief executive […]

Students have the opportunity to show their creativity and receive reserved parking for a year. The parking privileges will be granted to the student who submits the winning design for the Quality Enhancement Plan student logo competition. The Southern Association of Colleges and School Quality Enhancement Plan said students interested […]

Nina Ashenafi Richardson won the Leon county judge race with 59.1 percent of the total votes. Opponent Sean Desmond had 40.9 percent. Richardson will serve as a judge for the Leon county court seat 5. Supervisor of elections Ion Sancho, said the judicial races were critical because anyone charged with […]

In a landslide victory, Democrat Alan Williams was elected as the Florida House Representative for District 8. Williams beat opponent Robert Maddox, who filed non-partisan, and write-in candidates by 31,745 votes. Maddox received only 15.86 percent of the total votes. “There was a void in the seat and I knew […]

Instead of using national polls to predict the next president of the United States, LaRae Donnellan and her PR Research & Strategies class in the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University, conducted their own polls surveying college students all over the country. FAMU, along with Midwestern […]

Florida A&M University engineering students may soon have access to their very own college, without any joint agreement with Florida State University. Speculations have been circulating throughout the Rattler Nation blog about FSU’s president, T.K. Wetherell and FAMU’s president, James Ammons, not getting along. The two have allegedly had an […]

Nov. 4, 2008 shortly after 11 p.m. was for my great-grandparents Oscar and Roberta Copeland. As an Alabama sharecropper and a teacher at the local colored school, they sacrificed all that they had to instill the importance of education in the lives of their nine children. My grandmother recalled a […]