Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on a large farm on the banks of the Brazos. Yet in the years before Texas fought Mexico for its independence, the area became a magnet for free blacks from elsewhere in the South who sought a welcoming home.
The messy, confusing double legacy of that history has persisted to the present, most recently embo
On the same day Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family said she was moved to hospice care and that her life “is in God’s hands now,” Brown’s conservator accused her boyfriend of assaulting and stealing from Brown.
The civil lawsuit, filed Wednesday against Nick Gordon in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, alleges that Gordon’s behavior “caused, among other things, substantial bodily harm to Brown.”
It also claims that since Brown’s hospitalization in January, Gordon accessed her accounts
Natasha Graver, 32, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with felony child abuse for leaving her 4-month-old daughter in her van for about 3-1/2 hours on July 5, 2014.
(Photo: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office)
A woman who attended a funeral Saturday nearly had a second one on her hands when she left her 4-month-old daughter in her van for about 3½ hours.
Natasha Graver, 32, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with one count of child abuse, a felony, and was booked early Sunday in Pinellas Cou
"I agree, Jesus Christ is the Lord. I believe in that," President Barack Obama said in response to a heckler who disrupted his speech at a Los Angeles fundraiser Monday.
