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Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. Blitzing the battlegrounds. Next hour, Hillary Clinton hits florida and donald trump visits michigan later this afternoon. Overnight, trump fires off vicious new tweets against a former Miss Universe who was supporting Hillary Clinton. Heres trumps latest swipe. Quote, did crooked hillary help disgusting and in parentheses check out the sex tape and past, you know, did hillary help alicia m become a u. S. Citizen so she could use her in ...

The Colored Industrial Institute in Pine Bluff was one of the first Catholic-supported schools for Black children in Arkansas. The school was established by the Rev. John Michael Lucey, an Irish Catholic former Confederate soldier who became a priest after the Civil War and later took an interest in civil rights for Black Americans, speaking out against Jim Crow legislation and the practice of lynching.

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Wiley Jones is sitting in Floyd County Jail after members of the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant.

One of my earliest childhood memories involved getting a haircut--a real haircut, by someone other than a family member.

One of my earliest childhood memories involves getting a haircut -- a real haircut, by someone other than a family member.

In 1874, Rev. John M. Lucey, a racially-progressive white Confederate veteran, moved from Fort Smith to his first parish assignment as pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Pine Bluff. He soon founded the Annunciation Academy at St. Joseph Catholic Church and became the driving force behind establishing a vocational school for Black Americans in 1889.

Black History Month has begun, and there are numerous events happening in Central Arkansas to help Arkansans learn about and celebrate the past, present and future of Black Americans.

A returned coat, Too much Halloween revelry, A future ETSU presidents vision and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church was built at a time when Jim Crow laws forced race separation, enforced through cruelty, lynching and terror. More than 60 years later, the church was demolished in an attempt to destroy a prosperous Black neighborhood by running a highway through it.