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If you had “It’s time for women to play Major League Baseball” on Friday news cycle bingo card, it’s time to collect your winnings. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, exuberant over the end of the 99-day lockout, said that not only will it be great to see the “boys of summer” again, but he also hopes next year to see the “boys and girls of summer” playing Major League Baseball.

September 24, 2001 The Hartford Courant headline read: CHORUS OF PRAYER IN NEW YORK - THOUSANDS CONVERGE ON YANKEE STADIUM FOR AN EMOTIONAL INTERFAITH SERVICE; TERROR IN AMERICA: SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS Just two weeks after the deadly attack on the Twin Towers, as I remember, there were people of all faiths and political stripe praying, crying, remembering, and trying to disremember the most devastating attack by an enemy on the shores of the continental United States. The prayerful patriotism soon wore off shortly after President Bush invaded Iraq. W Bush became the liberal media's chief enemy - over and above...

MACON, Ga. - Macon Mayor Jack Ellis has converted to Islam and is now working to legally change his name to Hakim Mansour Ellis. Ellis, who was raised Christian, said Thursday that he became a Sunni Muslim during a December ceremony in the west African nation of Senegal. Ellis said he has been studying the Quran for years and that his new religion was originally practiced by his ancestors before they were brought to North America as slaves. "Why does one become a Christian?" Ellis said. "You do it because it feels right. It's the right thing for you to...

Nagin Scores Well With Blacks in Big Easy By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 5 minutes ago In a complete reversal of support from four years ago, Mayor Ray Nagin scored heavily with black voters and was practically abandoned by whites as he and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu won spots in a runoff election for mayor of New Orleans. Slightly more than half of the overall vote was attributed to black voters, who favored the top two candidates, according to a consulting firm analyzing demographic data for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. In predominantly white precincts, Nagin trailed...

Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a "chocolate" city once more and asserted that "God was mad at America." "I said some things that were totally inappropriate. ... It shouldn't have happened," Nagin said, explaining he was caught up in the moment as he spoke to mostly black spectators, many of them fearful of being shut out of the city's rebuilding. During the speech Monday, Nagin, who is black, said that the hurricanes that hit the nation in quick succession were a sign of God's...

Mayor Anthony M. Masiello will unveil a spending plan soon that will likely hold the line on the property tax levy but will call for a double-digit increase in the garbage user fee, The Buffalo News has learned. The unpopular fee could go up by anywhere from 10 to 15 percent July 1, sources confirmed Sunday. There would be few, if any, layoffs in the proposed budget, but many vacant jobs would be cut. City officials continued working this weekend on a plan that must be submitted to the Common Council and the state financial control board by May 2....