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Posted: 10:54 a.m. Friday, May 11, 2012

FAMU Band Director Quits; Panel OKs HIV Pill; Man Wins $1M--Six Times 

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Robert Champion, FAMU drum major photo
On the day Robert Champion died, he texted his parents a photograph of himself with a young boy from a children's marching band. (Photo, courtesy of the Champion family)

By Veronica Waters

Embattled Florida A&M University marching band director Julian White abruptly retires amid stunning new revelations about last fall's fateful road trip to the Florida Classic. Dozens of people on the band roster were not eligible to perform or travel with the famed Marching 100. They were not enrolled in a mandatory band class, and FAMU President James Ammons discloses that 101 were not students at FAMU; 52 of them had been previously enrolled there, and another 49 were listed as being enrolled at nearby schools.

White's attorney contended that only those who presented band officials with a class schedule at the start of the fall semester were given a Marching 100 uniform. Chuck Hobbs, however, said it was not up to the Department of Music to verify the enrollment.

Of the 13 people charged in Robert Champion's death, three of them were ineligible to perform: Lasherry Codner, Caleb Jackson, and Brian Jones.

Three DeKalb Police Officers are now on the wrong side of the law, accused of beating handcuffed teenaged burglary suspects. District Attorney Robert James says the charges against Blake Norwood, Arthur Parker and Anthony Robinson could be part of a broader conspiracy.

A panel of FDA advisers is endorsing the first drug shown to prevent HIV infection. The recommendation clears the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. A final decision onn Truvada is expected by June 15th.

President Obama briefly touches on his gay marriage support while addressing about 150 top-dollar supporters, Thursday night, at actor George Clooney's home in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. The president says his decision to support same-sex marriage is a logical extension of where he believes America ought to be.

Mitt Romney is rejecting the idea that he was a bully who preyed on gay classmates in high school. The Washington Post is reporting that he held down a classmate and cut off his bleached blond hair at a boarding school in Michigan. The newspaper suggested that the classmate was bullied because he was gay. But Romney tells a Fox News radio show that he had "no idea" that the classmate might have been gay, or that another boy at whom he yelled "Atta girl!" was gay, either. He says he was involved in "pranks" and "hijinks" in school and that he apologizes to anyone who may have been offended by that. After President Obama declared that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, Romney reiterated that he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Sandy Springs, Roswell, and Alpharetta all express interest in having one of the state's largest technical colleges' satellite campuses in north Fulton County. Gwinnett Tech could make a decision by September. The cities have to turn their proposals in by July.

A suburban Phoenix man made a lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky guess in a recent multistate lottery game. He claimed six separate $1 million prizes after purchasing a half-dozen Powerball tickets with the same winning numbers late last month. The man picked up his $6 million worth of second-place winnings over several trips to the lottery headquarters.


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Veronica Waters

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