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The late Stanley Ann Dunham has been described by her son President Barack Obama as a shy and small-town Caucasian from Kansas, an idealist who became a struggling single mother, notes Janny Scott, on leave from The to write "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." An article to appear in this coming Sunday's Magazine adapted from Scott's book and appearing on the Times' Web site, characterized the view from the other side of the political spectrum: "… In the fevered imaginings of supermarket tabloids and the Internet, she is the atheist, the Marxist, the flower child, the mother who abandoned her son or duped the newspapers of Hawaii into printing a birth announcement of her Kenyan-born baby, on the off chance that he might want to be president someday."

In the days of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, this Presidential Click office in Tivoli Gardens was hallowed territory. Today, it will be transformed into a police post, a signal that Coke's empire has crumbled and that the State is in full control of the community. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer THE PROMISE of a new day dawns in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, with today's scheduled opening of a police post in the community that has been devoid of consistent police presence for most of its existence. In an ironic twist of fate, the police post is being set up in the Presidential Click office - the headquarters of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the community kingpin-turned-fugitive. Coke fled the community over which he ruled with an iron fist after the police attempted to arrest him last week. The police incursion led to a gunfight between gunmen loyal to Coke and members of the security ...

Former NBA star Jayson Williams tearfully apologized in court where he was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002. (Feb. 23)

July 25, 2009 Vicente Padilla has swine flu, still expects to pitch vs. Tigers By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After a miserable week of coughing and congestion, the Texas Rangers finally have some good news: No new cases of swine flu and most of the sick players are regaining their energy. Texas has had at least a half dozen players hit by flulike symptoms and pitcher Vicente Padilla was diagnosed with H1N1 influenza A on Friday. The team is waiting for results of a few more swine flu tests, but nearly everyone seems on the mend. Padilla worked out today and is expected to start Tuesday against the Detroit Tigers. Kevin Millwood also appears ready to go for Sunday’s series finale against Kansas City. Shortstop Omar Vizquel was back in the lineup today after missing three games with the flu.