The Hall Johnson Summer Camp is held on the campus of Allen University for high school choral students. This camp places an emphasis on the music of Hall Johnson and the appropriate performance practice for the Negro spiritual. Campers will have a we ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 3:22PM
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SIMON Cowell has "set his heart" on becoming a success in Hollywood and is planning to release ten animated cartoon movies including a revival of Betty Boop.
The 55-year-old media mogul is so impressed by the success of Disney's Frozen that he wan ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 1:05PM
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by Emanuel Maiberg on January 11, 2015
Microsoft has updated its Game Content Usage Rules page to explain how people can use its game content to create YouTube videos and Twitch Streams, but the new rules don't apply to Minecraft, which Microsoft ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 11:37AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 12
JANUARY 2015
Croatia
Elections of Croatia will mark a new history today as making Kolinda Grabar-Kitavoric their first woman president. The election was held on January 11, 2015. The 46 year old Grabar-Kitavoric won th ...
Posted Monday, January 12th 2015 at 6:14AM
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YOUR WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS
DAY 9
JANUARY 2015
The lovely lyrics and gospel songs of Singer/Songwriter Andrae Crouch will be missed. Crouch departed his songwriting legacy on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at Northridge Medical Hospital in Los Ang ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 9:02PM
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YOUR NATIONAL NEWS
Day9
January 2015
Kalamazoo, MI
Fireworks exploded in the air with smoke, ash and popping on I-94 near Galesburg and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The accident was caused by a car and truck and ignited a trailer truck carrying ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 7:57PM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
Paris, France
Day 9
January 2015
This is a brief news update...
A grueling week of terror and terror connections finally are silenced for the time in Paris. The city of romance and love was filled with violent terror scene ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 7:36PM
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Bill Gates is turning human waste into drinkable water with the help of a sewage treatment machine developed using funds from the Gates Foundation. The machine, called the Omniprocessor, has been designed to provide clean drinking water to developing ...
Posted Friday, January 9th 2015 at 10:26AM
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Your National/ World Weather News
January Day 8
2015
Nation
Cold, freezing, bitter and cold. That's what most are seeing and feeling as a huge cold blast of winter's breath is making it's tale across the United States. Gripping cold and low t ...
Posted Thursday, January 8th 2015 at 8:28AM
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President Obama was not the only member of his household that fought to improve the P-20 education system in 2014. Michelle Obama carried out an impressive education agenda that rivaled her husband's in many respects. It seems that the two are a tag ...
Posted Wednesday, January 7th 2015 at 8:38AM
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During the last decade diagnosis rates for HIV in the United States have fallen by around one-third and now stand at 16 cases per 100,000. While this is very promising news and an indication that strategies to prevent the spread of infection have bee ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 6:36PM
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By Tom Dillon / Special to the Times-News
BOOK REVIEW
• “Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet,” by Todd Wilkinson. Copyright 2014, Lyons Press (378 pages, $18.95 paperback)
Authorized biographies aren’t normally my cup o ...
Posted Tuesday, January 6th 2015 at 2:48PM
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Alcorn State University announces that eligible high school students have a chance to participate in the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program and receive a scholarship to attend the university in any field of study in agriculture, food, natural resour ...
Posted Monday, January 5th 2015 at 4:53PM
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Pope Francis: Life is Always Worth Living, Even When Seriously Ill
In a year that saw assisted suicide advocates be applauded by the press, Pope Francis made some poignant commentary about the sanctity of life in his message for the World Day of the ...
Posted Sunday, January 4th 2015 at 5:51PM
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