Due to flooding on the Norfolk State University campus Wednesday, August 12, many campus facilities have sustained flood damage. According to news sources, seven to eight inches of rain fell within an hour and our area was hit the hardest. Your patience and consideration is greatly appreciated as we work to repair these facilities.
SEATTLE (AP) - Eleven states have said no to charter schools, one of the education reforms President Barack Obama backs. They may soon be paying a penalty for that choice. As states compete for more than $4 billion in federal education grants, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made it clear that those willing to embrace charter schools and other favored innovations will get preference.
WASHINGTON (AP) - With banks limiting the availability of auto, student and other consumer loans, the Federal Reserve said Monday it would extend a program intended to help spur more lending at low rates. The program is set up to provide up to $1 trillion in low-cost financing to investors to buy securities backed by consumer and commercial loans.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -Perched at the edge of an exam table, Delmira Maravilla is anxious for a check-up - and for a timeline on the president's promise of health care for all Americans. She's paying out of pocket for the exam, and like one-third of Hispanics, the mother of nine doesn't have health insurance.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -The suburban county just north of New York City agreed Aug. 10 to create hundreds of affordable homes in heavily white communities and encourage nonwhites to move in. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which brokered the settlement with Westchester County, called it a landmark agreement that could have far-reaching national consequences.
NEW YORK (AP) -The collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane over New York's Hudson River has intensified pressure to tighten the rules governing one of the world's most crowded air corridors - a largely unregulated airspace some pilots compare to the Wild West.
INSHASA, Congo (AP) -Hillary Clinton has a message for the world: It's not all about Bill.
The secretary of state bristled Aug. 10 when - as she heard it - a Congolese university student asked what her husband thought about an international financial matter.
She hadn't traveled to Africa to talk about her husband the ex-president. But even there, she couldn't escape his outsized shadow.
She abruptly reclaimed the stage for herself.
"My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she snapped. "I am not going to be channeling my husband."
CHICAGO (AP) - Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research. The study is billed as the first to show major depression can be chronic even in very young children, contrary to the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky preschooler.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House warned Monday that the "cash for clunkers" program, already zooming toward a quarter-million trade-ins with the initial $1 billion in rebates, could sputter to a stop by July 31 unless the Senate quickly approves $2 billion more.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation's founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail. The Postal Service may register a loss of nearly $7 billion this fiscal year in spite of a 2-cent increase in the price of stamps in May, cuts in staff and removal of collection boxes.
When Vicky Black's one-story home in Port Richey, Fla., was on the market, prospective buyers told her they liked it. Unfortunately, they made negative comments about her neighbor's home, which has a stone lawn and little curb appeal. "They said I was the gem of the neighborhood, and it was too bad I had eyesores around me," recalled Black, who took her house off the market last year.
BOWLING GREEN, Va. (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama promoted the work of community health centers on July 27, saying they have a critical place in her husband's effort to overhaul how the nation delivers health care.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The former head of a Virginia Tech counseling center accidentally packed mental health files of student gunman Seung-Hui Cho along with personal documents when he left his job more than a year before Cho killed 32 people on campus, a lawyer said Thursday, July 23.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The white police sergeant accused of racial profiling after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach recruits about avoiding racial profiling. Friends and fellow officers - black and white - say Sgt.
TIBURON, Calif. (AP) - Visitors should be prepared to have their pictures taken as they enter and leave this picturesque town of million-dollar views and homes along the San Francisco Bay. Officials want to photograph every car and use the license plate information to solve crimes in the town of 9,000.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first AIDS vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the world with unscientific pronouncements about the disease.
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - A woman who said evangelist Tony Alamo "married" her when she was 8 years old told federal jurors July 16 that he sexually assaulted her repeatedly until she dodged security cameras and roving guards to escape from his compound in 2006.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and the state's top transportation official want Congress to help pave the way for private businesses to operate highway rest areas and head off a budget-cutting plan to close many of the stops next week.
Transportation Secretary Pierce Homer wrote to Virginia's congressional delegation asking for their help getting around a federal law that prohibits commercial activities in interstate rest areas.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House broke with the Obama administration Thursday over a key part of the auto industry restructuring, pressing General Motors and Chrysler to restore dealerships shuttered by the car companies' bankruptcies. The House approved the car dealer measure Thursday as part of a spending bill.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of unity from an out-of-power political party in search of a rallying cry against President Barack Obama. Republicans called Obama's $787 billion spending plan a "flop" and said it hasn't fulfilled its hype.
NORFOLK, Va. - The Norfolk State volleyball team was predicted to finish 5th in the southern division of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference this season in a preseason poll of league coaches and sports information directors, the conference announced on Aug. 10.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The move increases Democrats' chances of holding on to the former Senate seat of President Barack Obama.
During her first campus tour of Norfolk State University, President Carolyn Meyers recalls her initial glimpse of the university library. "They pointed out the library and they kept moving," said Meyers. "A few months later, I knew why. This library is from the past," she said referring to the ancient structure and appearance.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back into the national scrum when she leaves office at the end of the month. The former Republican vice presidential nominee said she plans to write a book, campaign for political candidates from coast to coast - even Democrats who share her views on limited government, national defense and energy independence - and build a right-of-center coalition.
OCRACOKE, N.C. (AP) - Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The state Department of Education is withdrawing a proposal to discontinue third-grade history and social-science accountability tests, after vocal protests from history advocates and state legislators. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, who barely knew his own father, had personal advice on June 19 for young men who become dads: "Even if your father was not there, you can be there for your child."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Car shoppers could take advantage of government incentives worth up to $4,500 this summer to send their old gas guzzler to the scrap heap in favor of a more fuel-efficient new vehicle.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Under withering criticism in Congress, General Motors and Chrysler executives on June 12 called the closings of hundreds of dealerships.
NEW YORK (AP) - Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter. The Alaska governor appeared on NBC's "Today" show June 12, continuing a feud with the CBS "Late Show" funnyman over his joke earlier this week that Palin's daughter got "knocked up" by New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez during their recent trip to New York.
WASHINGTON (AP) - No more "light" cigarettes or candy-flavored smokes. Bigger, scarier warning labels. Fewer ads featuring sexy young smokers. Historic anti-smoking legislation sped to final congressional passage on June 12 - after a bitter fight.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Armies of new Avon ladies, Mary Kay reps and Tupperware sellers are advancing on living rooms across the country, their ranks full of professionals forced to take a second job amid the recession.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate chairman who has a major role in writing health care legislation said Tuesday, June 2, he hopes to convince President Barack Obama that taxing some employer-provided benefits will help control escalating costs.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., may face a hard sell.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - General Motors will close its only manufacturing operation in Virginia to cut costs as the automaker operates under bankruptcy protection.
PHOENIX (AP) - The death of Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter in a bizarre accident adds an awful chapter to the boxer's troubled life. Exodus Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday,May 26.
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 90 percent of economists predict the recession will end this year, although the recovery is likely to be bumpy.
An incident you would ordinarily see in the movies happened to former model, Heather Mills earlier this week. After being followed down a grocery store aisle by two teenage boys, Mills slipped on spilled milk causing her to lose her prosthetic leg. Mills,41, had her left leg amputated after a motorcycle accident in 1993 and has worn her prosthetic leg ever since.
WASHINGTON (AP) - In more than 16 years as a federal judge, Sonia Sotomayor has often sided with people claiming discrimination in education and employment. She's backed police and prosecutors over defendants. She's upheld assertions of free speech and religion.
Not easily pigeonholed, Sotomayor has also been part of rulings that go the other way.
In general, her rulings as a trial judge for six years and then as an appeals court judge since 1998 are in line with the liberal-leaning views of Justice David Souter, the man President Barack Obama has nominated her to replace.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - More than two years into a protracted battle over how to parcel out James Brown's wealth, a South Carolina judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that gives nearly half of his assets to a charitable trust, about a quarter to his wife and young son, and the rest to Brown's adult children.
Norfolk State University's Board of Visitors approved an increase in tuition and fees for the 2009-10 academic year at its board meeting today. Beginning fall 2009, tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students will increase 5.6 percent or $312.10 per year.
The protests over the University of Notre Dame's commencement invitation to President Barack Obama will have an impact beyond the South Bend campus and far longer than graduation season.
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices hit a six-month high Wednesday, climbing above $62 a barrel after a government report showed a drop in U.S. oil supplies for the second straight week.
Benchmark crude for July delivery rose $1.21 to $61.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange before noon.
ATLANTA (AP) - It's been two months since 2-year-old Cori pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe, and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother, hunts for a replacement.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration expanded its $50 billion mortgage aid program on Thursday, announcing new measures that would help homeowners avoid a foreclosure if they don't qualify for other assistance. The new initiatives are expected to streamline the process of selling a home that is worth less than the mortgage, or transfer ownership of a home to the lender.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Pfizer Inc. says it will provide 70 of its most widely prescribed prescription drugs - including Lipitor and Viagra - for free to people who have lost their jobs and health insurance. The world's biggest drugmaker said Thursday it will give away the medicines for up to a year to Americans who lost jobs since Jan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are looking at health care changes, including federal aid to help families earning up to $88,000 pay for insurance.
WASHINGTON (AP) - With the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year. The deficit for the current budget year will rise by $89 billion to above $1.
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