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Obama’s Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs

ATLANTA (AP) — When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he’ll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities — a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress.

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Pimlico infield safe and sound for Preakness

Racing fans wait for the next horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

BALTIMORE (AP) — In front of one stage, a mother propped her young child on her shoulders while watching the country music group Florida Georgia Line.

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Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home

Sherene Julian, right, hugs her friend Robin Howard outside the Anna Louise Inn, in Cincinnati on Thursday, May 16, 2013. The two are residents of the home for struggling women. In a deal with Western & Southern Insurance Group, who bought the 104-year-old inn for $4 million, the women now living there will remain where they are for two years as a new facility for them is built. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

CINCINNATI (AP) — For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home.

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Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

In this May 2, 2013 photo, a leatherback turtle heads back into the ocean after burying her clutch of eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles’ buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market. Now, the turtles are the focus of a thriving tourist trade, with people so devoted to them that they shoo birds away when the turtles first start out as tiny hatchlings scurrying to sea.  (AP Photo/David McFadden)

GRANDE RIVIERE, Trinidad (AP) — Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.

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Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade surprises fan at prom

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — When a South Florida high school senior asked Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade to her prom, she knew it was a long shot. Fortunately, that’s Wade’s specialty on and off the court.

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