The Leon County Sheriff’s Office has identified the bodies of two people found dead in a home in Killearn Estates Thursday. They are 20-year-old Nefertiti Nicole Williams and 20-year-old Shundavian Marquis Brooks. They were both from the Bradenton area. Deputies were called to the house at 2829 Roscommon Drive after […]

The Florida A&M University Department of Public Safety is implementing a new vehicle booting policy effective today to reduce the number of vehicles towed off campus. “This is a move to cut out three-fourths of all towing on campus,” said FAMU Police Chief Calvin Ross. Violations that caused a vehicle […]

Top officials in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences remain silent about whether two professors will be allowed to continue teaching criminology courses at the university. Allegations began to surface in October that Narayan Persaud and Phyllis Gray-Ray would be removed from […]

Students in the school and educational psychology graduate program in the Department of Psychology say they are not receiving the educational experience for which they signed up when they entered the program. “If you can’t offer an efficient experience, you shouldn’t have a program,” said Ernson Augustin, 24, a second-year […]

Redshirt junior quarterback Albert Chester II had been waiting all season for his breakout game to come. Chester got just that in the Florida A&M University Rattlers’ (7-4 overall, 5-3 MEAC) 35-21 triumph over the Bethune-Cookman College Wildcats (5-6 overall, 3-5 MEAC) at the Florida Classic in Orlando. Chester earned […]

Last year, quarterback Albert Chester II waited until near the end of the contest to show Florida Classic fans what he could do. This year, the redshirt junior from Jacksonville showed more than 71,000 fans at the Citrus Bowl from the opening snap how dominant he could be. With 337 […]

When it comes to championships, the Florida A&M University Lady Rattlers volleyball team (20-6 overall, 10-0 MEAC) knows a thing or two about winning. FAMU won its sixth straight MEAC championship after defeating Morgan State University 3-0 Saturday at Hampton University. The Lady Rattlers have left many opponents winded and […]

The long awaited and highly anticipated debut of PlayStation 3 finally occurred Nov. 17. If that wasn’t enough to get tech-jocks excited, the scarcity of Xbox 360s rival competitor was. With only 250,000 units currently available in the nation, Sony’s new gaming system sent the gaming community into a frenzy. […]

Apparently, it’s courtroom protocol for children to appear before juvenile court judges shackled at the ankles, chained at the waist and cuffed at the hands. Efforts are now being led by Carlos Martinez, chief assistant public defender in Miami-Dade County, and the Florida Bar to help ban the practice of […]

From the time the United States was founded, discriminatory and back handed politics have successfully stopped blacks from becoming president of the United States. But with the changing political atmosphere, the dream of a black U.S. president may finally come to fruition. Although the next presidential election is not until […]