DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court overturned a $14.9 million verdict Monday and sharply criticized a Detroit-area judge for keeping a woman on a jury because she was black.
In a 5-2 decision, the court said …

DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― Just after 10 a.m. Wednesday, a Pepsi semi-truck crashed through a highway divider on the Dallas North Tollway and overturned.
According to North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) spokesperson Sherita …

A Brooklyn man died in a horrific subway accident last night after jumping in front of a train after a young woman who plunged to the tracks to retrieve her fallen jacket, according to the …

DALLAS — Former Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith carried a message of encouragement to the students of Bishop Dunne High School.
“The bottom line is doing your best, believing in yourself, and doing your best,” Smith …

Portland Press Herald – A group of Casco, ME residents is demanding the resignation of a selectwoman who used her private e-mail account to forward a racist joke about Michelle Obama.
Mary-Vienessa Fernandes, one of the …

(PEOPLE.com) — While Tiger Woods sat for two five-minute TV interviews Sunday, wife Elin Nordegren was on the family yacht Privacy with only her two children and a nanny.
Though Woods, 34, told ESPN in his …

NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) — Actress/singer Vanessa Williams says it has been “seamless” juggling her starring roles in ABC’s “Ugly Betty” and Broadway’s “Sondheim on Sondheim.”
The Tony-nominated actress hits the boards Friday at Studio …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio State University janitor who received a bad job evaluation shot two supervisors in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday.
Nathaniel Brown, …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Precious” has been named outstanding motion picture and outstanding independent film at the 41st NAACP Image Awards.
The heart-wrenching film is about an illiterate and abused teen who finds hope in a …

NEW YORK (AP) — Calling himself an everyday fighter, Gov. David Paterson quietly put an end to the talk that he would prolong his long-shot bid to stay in office, hoping to stave off a …