Civil-rights activists in Louisville, Kentucky said Monday they were following in Martin Luther King Junior's footsteps with protests over the shooting of a handcuffed black man by a white police officer.
A preacher criticized the Chesterfield County school administration Monday for holding classes on Martin Luther King Junior Day and urged parents of Chesterfield students who stayed home not to write notes excusing their children's absences.
A Georgia town is struggling after 1,600 residents were left jobless when Thomaston Mills, the largest employer in Upson County for generations, closed a year and a half ago.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Georgia Democrats over a redistricting plan that was rejected and unused in last year's elections.
Despite decades of regulation, the Savannah River absorbs 66 million gallons of municipal wastewater and 40 million gallons of treated industrial sewage each day.
President Bush, evoking the memory of Martin Luther King Junior, proclaimed Monday there is still work to do to fulfill the slain civil rights leader's dream of equality in America.
Since Martin Luther King Junior's death, people have watched for a new political and social leader to emerge with as much influence among American blacks.
