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As he makes the transition from successful high school football coach to unproven junior-college coach, Pat Nugent said his biggest challenge is dealing with recruitment and retention.

DETROIT -- Clete Thomas drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning to force home the tiebreaking run, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Friday night for a sweep of their day-night doubleheader.

President attempts to defuse growing controversy about sergeant's arrest of black history professorBarack Obama today phoned the white policeman he said 'acted stupidly' in arresting a black Harvard professor in his own home and invited the officer to visit the White House as the president attempted to defuse a growing race row over the incident.Obama revealed he made the five-minute phone call to Sergeant James Crowley shortly after police unions demanded an apology from the president for saying the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts 'acted stupidly' in arresting Henry Louis Gates on charges of disorderly conduct after the officer responded to a report of a suspected burglary.The president said he should have chosen his words more carefully but stopped short of an apology. 'Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped to contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make it clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave the impression I was maligning the Cambridge police depart

Knocked off stride by a racial uproar he helped stoke, President barack obama hastened Friday to tamp down the controversy. Obama, who had said Cambridge, Mass., police 'acted stupidly' in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., declared the white...

Washington - US President barack obama took a hands-on approach to education reform on Friday, challenging schools across the country to improve their teaching standards if they wanted to get their hands on more than 4 billion dollars in federal fund...

President barack obama said today he told the police officer who arrested an African-American Harvard professor that he did not mean to malign the Cambridge Police Department when he said it 'acted stupidly.'

The president explained his remarks in a surprise appearance before reporters.

Fitch Ratings assigned an AA- rating to a $102 million in bonds the Sarasota County Public Hospital District plans to issue to partially fund a new patient tower.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President barack obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than big companies, said Saturday the disparity is 'unsustainable - it's unacceptable.'...

A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.