The Florida A&M men’s tennis team took on University of South Florida, Saturday in Tampa, losing 7-0. Levan Clark, a junior from Orlando, opened up the singles against USF losing his first set with a score of 6-4, winning his second set 2-6 and losing the deciding set 10-5. […]
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Rec Center Times Change
The Hansel E. Tookes Recreation Center, once available 6 days a week and with late hours, is now open only Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. The hours have changed because the center has yet to receive money to pay student’s working under Other […]
FAMU Athletes Show Love to Community
Florida A & M athletes, coaches, cheerleaders and the Marching 100 attended the final day of J. Michael Conley Elementary School’s Literacy Week to talk about the importance of reading. The group paid a surprise visit to the school on Friday to read, talk and have a mini-parade with the […]
Men’s Basketball Team Loses after Strong Wins
Men’s Basketball Team Despite how they have been playing as of late, the Florida A&M men’s basketball team lost 61-59 to the North Carolina Central Eagles. The loss dropped the Rattlers to 7-13 overall. The team entered Saturday’s game on a two game win streak, which included […]
Court Sentences Men for Embezzlement
Former FAMU officials accused of embezzling federal grant money from the university credit union were sentenced to federal prison, despite pleas for supervised release. Former FAMU credit union president Eugene Telfair was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and former head for FAMU’s Institute for Urban Policy and Commerce Robert […]
Maya Angelou: ‘Look for good within the bad’
Maya Angelou was helped slowly on to the stage with her hand held by a younger man who eased her into her seat. Seemingly fragile, there was an immediate uncanny silence as she moved the microphone closer to her. As the lights dimmed, she began to sing with a surprisingly […]
Open carry law…not such a good idea
Over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a shooting injured two innocent bystanders. A 52-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man both sustained gunshot wounds in this tragic incident of cosmic irony. It’s truly heartbreaking that after a parade to honor a man of peace, two people would be shot. This […]
TPD: ‘Too early to suggest record high in homicides this year’
The new-year often yields broken resolutions. But some Tallahassee residents have broken more than just personal resolutions -some have broken the law. The month of January has not ended and area residents have watched the local news and read stories in newspapers about homicides in their community. In previous years […]
Approval ratings… what are they good for?
The most recent Gallup poll reported that President Obama’s approval rating sits at 49 percent as of January 26th; 43 percent disapprove of his job as commander in chief and the remaining 8 percent had no opinion. This comes on the heels of President Obama’s annual State of The […]
When enough is enough
Most of us have gone through something painful in our lives. If not, it is a safe bet to say that we will. In Ann Pettaway’s case, her pain led her to commit a horrible crime in 1987. After years of trying to conceive her own child and countless […]