CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama Thursday stood by his comment that a Massachusetts police officer who arrested Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. acted "stupidly."
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 21 (UPI) -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. demanded an apology Tuesday from police who arrested the African-American scholar as he tried to get into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- No Chicago police officers were involved in an alleged phone call threat made this week against U.S. President Barack Obama, officials say.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Charges against George Obama, the half-brother to U.S. President Barack Obama, were dropped after he was arrested in a drug raid, police in Kenya said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Barack Obama Tuesday recited the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts:
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Police Wednesday investigated whether a man with an assault rifle arrested in suburban Chicago was planning to harm President-elect Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Barack Obama, with projected wins in West Coast states, became the first African-American president-elect of the United States Tuesday.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- University of Kentucky officials said an effigy of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree on campus Wednesday.
CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Chicago police say they arrested a man Tuesday for allegedly breaching the security perimeter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's home.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama may have been a parking scofflaw during his Harvard Law School days but the Cambridge parking director said now he's a good role model.
