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This undated photo provided by the Cahokia Police Department shows Mario Hunt, 35, of Cahokia, Ill. Hunt, an HIV-infected teacher's aide in a special-needs classroom at Cahokia High School, is accused of exposing a student to the AIDS-causing virus during molestations. He was jailed Tuesday, May 14, 2013, on felony charges of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and transmitting HIV. The criminal complaint alleges the misconduct took place in 2011, when the alleged victim was 17. (AP Photo/Cahokia Police Department)

HIV-infected teacher's aide accused of molestation

An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student. Prosecutors in St. Clair County east of St. Louis charged Mario L. Hunt, 35, ...

  • Updated: 2:26 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013
FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 Dr. Conrad Murray waits to leave the courtroom during the final stage of his defense in his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of singer Michael Jackson. Supervising Deputy Attorney General Victoria B. Wilson said Monday May 13, 2013 an appeal by the doctor convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death should be rejected because there were no errors made during the criminal case that warrant overturning a jury's verdict. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool, File)

Court urged to reject Jackson doctor's appeal

The involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson's doctor should not be overturned because there were no serious errors made by the judge overseeing his criminal case, a state attorney wrote in a filing urging a court to reject his appeal. Supervising Deputy Attorney General Victoria B. Wilson wrote in a ...

  • Updated: 12:36 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Girls from 33 Oklahoma communities hold signs that read "I am Malala" following the presentation of the Reflectons of Hope Award in Oklahoma City, Monday, May 13, 2013. The award was presented to Ziauddin Yousafzai and his daughter Malala Yousafzai, who was not present. Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt that drew attention worldwide to the struggle for women's rights in her homeland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Award goes to Pakistani girl shot by Taliban

A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taliban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban late last year, were honored Monday at the memorial for Oklahoma City bombing victims. Ziauddin ...

  • Updated: 6:43 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013
A gay marriage supporter waves the U.S. flag and a rainbow flag as supporters and opponents of Minnesota's gay marriage bill gather in the State Capitol rotunda in St. Paul as the Senate prepared to take up the issue Monday, May 13, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The bill passed the Minnesota House last week. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Minn. OKs gay marriage; governor to sign

Minnesota is set to become the 12th U.S. state where gay couples can get married after a final legislative vote Monday that will let the weddings start on Aug. 1. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign the bill, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the ...

  • Updated: 6:41 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013
In this April 30, 2013 photo, Desaray Carroll, a senior at Coahulla Creek High School in Whitfield County, Ga., who has cerebral palsy, stands in front of the school. Carroll was crowned prom queen by her peers. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Misty Watson)

Student with cerebral palsy named prom queen

In many ways, Desaray Carroll is a typical high school teenager. She texts nonstop, hangs out with her friends, goes to the movies and out to eat. The 19-year-old Coahulla Creek High School student is surrounded with a family and friends who love and support her, so much so they ...

  • Updated: 5:13 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013
This April 30, 2013 photo shows Puerto Rican actor Ismael Cruz Cordova, 26, of "Sesame Street," posing in New York. Cruz plays Mando, a young Latino writer who interacts with the puppets and also loves technology. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP)

'Sesame Street' gets new Hispanic character

As a child in Puerto Rico, Ismael Cruz was delighted by the colorful characters in "Sesame Street," who not only entertained and educated him, but helped him learn "inglés." He could not have imagined that two decades later he would be playing with them in front of the cameras. Cruz ...

  • Updated: 3:53 p.m. Friday, May 10, 2013
Mayor Michael Nutter looks up after signing legislation that broadens equality protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people living and working in the city, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Philadelphia. Nutter and gay rights advocates say it makes Philadelphia the first big city in the U.S. to offer tax credits to companies that extend the same health care coverage to LGBT employees' life partners and their children as they already provide to heterosexual spouses and their children. Nutter is accompanied by from left, Rue Landau, Executive Director of Commission on Human Relations, Gloria Casarez Director of LGBT Affairs, Zeli Colon-Pennock, Councilman James Kenney, and state Rep. Brian Sims D-Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philly mayor signs broad LGBT rights legislation

Mayor Michael Nutter signed legislation Thursday to afford equal rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, saying he hoped Philadelphia would become "the most LGBT-friendly" city in the world. Nutter, city and state lawmakers and gay rights advocates said the legislation makes Philadelphia the first city in the U.S. ...

  • Updated: 5:14 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013
FILE - This Oct. 7, 2011 file photo shows Hip Hop artist Lil Wayne during halftime of Game 3 of the WNBA basketball finals between the Atlanta Dream and Minnesota Lynx, in Atlanta. The Rev. Al Sharpton says a meeting he held with PepsiCo Inc. officlals and members of Emmett Till's family was “positive.” Sharpton says in a statement PepsiCo officials apologized to the Till family at the Wednesday morning meeting at company headquarters in Purchase. PepsiCo and Lil Wayne ended their commercial relationship last week over vulgar lyrics the rapper included in a song that referenced Till, a black teen who became a civil rights icon after being killed while visiting Mississippi. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Sharpton: Meeting with PepsiCo 'positive'

Officials with PepsiCo Inc. apologized during a meeting Wednesday with relatives of civil rights icon Emmett Till who were offended by a rapper who had a promotional deal with the company, the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Sharpton said a statement that the morning meeting he brokered at company headquarters in ...

  • Updated: 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013
FILE - In this Thursday, May 2, 2013 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, next to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, looks up at the crowd during a dedication of the new Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center in Denver. On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest court, spoke at Cooper Union, a private college in Manhattan's East Village where Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech against slavery. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool, File)

Sotomayor speaks at NYC literature festival

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just "Sonia from the Bronx." And on Sunday, the first Hispanic justice on the nation's highest court explained why, saying "you can't come from the world I grew up in, the South Bronx, without feeling the frenzy ...

  • Updated: 12:08 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, recording artist Lil Wayne meets fans and celebrates his contemporary street wear apparel brand TRUKFIT at his hometown Macy's, in New Orleans. A letter from Lil Wayne to the offended family of Emmett Till did not go far enough and relatives of the late civil rights icon are seeking a meeting with the rapper and representatives from PepsiCo to discuss their commercial partnership. The New Orleans rapper made the brief offensive reference to Till on Future's song "Karate Chop" earlier this year. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

PepsiCo cuts ties with Lil Wayne over crude lyrics

PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties with Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude lyrical reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till. Lil Wayne, one of the biggest stars in pop music, had a deal to promote the company's Mountain Dew ...

  • Updated: 8:13 p.m. Friday, May 3, 2013
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