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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Students asked Interim Florida A&M President Larry Robinson about his plans for their programs and the university overall Thursday at a town hall meeting.  About 50 students gathered at Hansel E. Tookes Student Recreation Center to meet Robinson, who until Monday was university provost.  The interim president opened with a […]

Florida A&M’s Student Government Association will host a town hall session in the group exercise room of the Hansel E. Tookes Recreation Center Thursday at 4 p.m. to introduce the new interim president Larry Robinson to students. Thursday’s meeting was scheduled in response to the news of former President James Ammons’ resignation that took […]