Sonia Cherail Peeples and Michael Peeples, married with two sons, met as students at the University of Southern Mississippi.
By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: March 19, 2011
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45...
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, compared Republicans in Congress to people who excuse rapists by blaming their victims.
The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting his foot in his mouth, said that Republicans who want to cut spending while at the same time cutting taxes for...
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- The St. Patrick's Day celebration kept police in Savannah busy over the weekend.
Savannah Police Officer Gena Moore said authorities arrested 190 people throughout the celebration of the Irish holiday, which began Thursday and kept bars - and authorities - busy days later.
She said the festival ran smoothly aside from a "few...
More than 2,000 candidate stars have been detected in the North America Nebula thanks to the infrared eyes of the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Previously only 200 young stars were known to exist in the nebula – which takes its name from the shape of the continent of North America, complete with the Gulf of Mexico – because newborn stars are swathed...
The few times that Huan Kiat Koh came home with poor grades when he was growing up in Singapore, he vividly remembers his mother's response.
"She would scold me, and then tell me to sit down and work," said Mr. Koh, a sophomore majoring in materials science at Carnegie Mellon University. "In general in Singapore, parents feel grades are very...
