Police said a 26-year-old parolee wanted on a parole violation opened fire on Hege and Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, during a traffic stop Saturday afternoon, killing Dunakin, police said.

For African Americans, “2008 was not a good year,” said Algernon Austin, director of Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, “and unfortunately, it looks like things will get worse.”

Academy Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson stood again in the Cook County medical examiner's office, clutching the hands of loved ones as they identified the body of yet another slain relative -- her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for U.S. president on Thursday, saying he had "met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change."

SANFORD, Fla. -- A mother was standing outside her Sanford house Tuesday, watching her little boy at his school bus stop, when right in front of her eyes a man drove up and tried to kidnap her son. Late Tuesday afternoon, Eyewitness News spoke to a second boy who said the same man tried to abduct him.

"He gave me a sexual look, so I backed up and stayed a distance so he wouldn't grab me or anything," said student Tayshon Thomas.