Lofa Tatupu and the Seattle Seahawks have agreed to a new contract for the Pro Bowl linebacker through the 2015 season.
The deal includes the final two years on his original contract for the second-round selection in 2005 out of Southern California, plus six …
Behind Black Music Two intriguing critical overviews Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton Pantheon, june 2003 $27.50, ISBN 0-375-40612-3
Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie R Ramsey Jr. University of California Press, june 2003 $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21048-4
As legendary jazz saxophonist John Collrane once reflected after reading a Downbeat article deconstructing his sound: "Everybody writing about music don't know what they're talking about." Most serious jazz lovers distrusted many of the declarations coming from noted white so-called music experts, spouting their academic analysis of black music, a majority of their …
The remnants of Tropical Storm Gustav were rumbling northeastward into the Great Lakes early Friday, while rain hit the central Plains and the Northeast and Southwest were toasty warm.
The weakened storm will bring moderate to heavy rain showers and thunderstorms as it treks quickly across the Great Lakes. The mid- and lower Mississippi Valleys will see diminishing rainfall.
Tropical Storm Hanna was expected to gradually increase in speed as it continues moving toward the northwest. Hanna was expected to turn to the north and move near the Southeast Coast by late Friday evening, bringing heavy rains and high winds.
The mid-Atlantic and New England …
A Yemeni court has sentenced in absentia a female journalist to one year in prison for insulting the president.
Anisa Mohammed Ali Othman told The Associated Press Sunday that the two-year-old case over a pair of articles she wrote about corruption and injustice in Yemen was politically motivated.
Othman, who has also …
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. Prosecutors in Linda Tripp's state wiretap casehave subpoenaed five current and former members of special prosecutorKenneth Starr's staff, hoping they may be able to clarify whenTripp's federal immunity took effect.
In subpoenas dated Tuesday, the staff members were ordered toappear at a Dec. 13 hearing by Judge Diane O. Leasure.
Tripp's secretly tape-recorded phone calls with former White Houseintern Monica Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky confided an affair withPresident Clinton, formed the starting point for his impeachment inthe House. The Senate acquitted him.
The Maryland prosecutor argues that the federal immunity agreementdoes not shield …
A look at major attacks in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia attributed to the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group and their allies from the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.
— April 1995: Abu Sayyaf militants raid the mostly Christian town of Ipil in southern Philippines, killing more than 50 people after robbing banks and stores and burning the town center.
— April 2000: Abu Sayyaf gunmen seize 21 people, including Western tourists, from a Malaysian resort and take them to their Philippine stronghold on Jolo Island; most are released in exchange for millions of dollars in ransom reportedly paid by Libya.
— May 2001: Americans and other tourists are …
