AC Wharton statement:  "This is truly a sad day for the City of Memphis.  As has been shared by Police Director Toney Armstrong, we lost one of the brave members of the Memphis Police Department to a shooting incident today. Officer Martoiya Lang was not only a faithful officer, but a loving mother and beloved daughter.  As a city, we mourn the l

Meet Elise Summerhill. She has the beautifully squeaky voice of a child. When she speaks it is pure sweetness, even as she describes the cancer that made her so sick.
 
"Germinoma. It's a brain tumor that was in my pituitary gland," she said.
 
Elise was diagnosed when she was 11. Her mother Heather says the granting

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will speak from the White House briefing room about the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, his first comments on an incident that has left at least 27 people dead, including 18 children.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said that mass shootings "weigh heavily" on Obama