Houston Fire Capt. Keith Smith publicly apologized Monday for keeping a rope tied in a noose like knot in his firehouse locker but insisted he was unaware the object might be loaded with racial ...

A Houston Fire Department captain apologized today for keeping a hangman’s-style knot at his station but reiterated that it was a memento from his training days and not intended as racist symbol.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Following an investigation by the University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security, ...

Wiltse's brooding 12th novel veers between thriller set pieces and oracular social commentary. At the start of his first adventure (Heartland, 2001), battered Secret Service agent Billy Tree exiled ...

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