(CNN) -- "Today is a big day for hip hop." When music impresario Russell Simmons penned those words and posted them Wednesday, he was not referring to a new album dropping or the debut of an exciting artist. He was talking about a male artist's admission that his first love was a man.

(CNN) -- Three days before Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died in a hazing incident last November, the campus police chief had suggested the suspension of the band because of hazings, a document released by the school shows.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be getting an estimated $40 million communications upgrade, signaling it will continue its mission of holding top suspected terrorists and as a major humanitarian aid base in the region.

(CNN) -- The campaigns for Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama played ping pong with political jibes Tuesday over a news report detailing Romney's overseas investments and bank accounts.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Facing budget constraints, state officials are moving ahead with a plan to shut down two prisons, including one with a well-established addictive treatment program, despite a growing inmate population.

(CNN) -- In the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision upholding the individual mandate in President Barack Obama's health care law, the debate on the campaign trail turned not to extending health care to nearly 50 million uninsured Americans, but to the language of the ruling.

(CNN) -- The judge overseeing the Trayvon Martin case in Florida set bond for George Zimmerman at $1 million on Thursday.

A controversial case may allow the Mississippi Supreme Court to determine if statutory rape is a violent crime under state law.
Chris Taylor got a life sentence as a habitual offender. The sentence could only be imposed if one of his convictions was a violent crime –in this case, statutory rape.

 

Two outcomes in the final days of his seventh year on the court offer some clues for reassessing what kind of chief justice Roberts is and intends to be.

A Mississippi man is mentally competent to stand trial in August on charges he shot at three men in what prosecutors call a racially motivated attack in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.