NATIONAL NEWS
West rethinks lopsided agricultural subsidiesNGIRESI, Tanzania - Farmer Loi Bangoti picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Africa's highest mountains. More » |
Army pays black vet $725 for '44 wrongful convictionSEATTLE - In 1944, an Italian prisoner of war was found lynched following a night of rioting at Fort Lawton in Seattle. More » |
Panel allows easing of old crack prison sentencesWASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. More » |
