Romney Takes 6 Super Tuesday States, Santorum Nets 3, Gingrich Takes Georgia

CBS News projects that Mitt Romney will win Ohio’s key primary contest Tuesday, after a neck-and-neck race with rival Rick Santorum to eke out a victory in the pivotal battleground state.

 

With 96 percent reporting in Ohio, Romney has 38 percent support to Santorum’s 37 percent. Newt Gingrich is in third place with 15 percent and Ron Paul follows with 9 percent.

Florida Church Where Sex Offender Darrell Gilyard Is Pastor Asked to Leave Association of Southern Baptist Churches

A Florida Baptist church that recently opened its pulpit to a registered sex offender has been asked to withdraw from its local association of Southern Baptist churches.

Obama, Lawmakers Remember New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne

From the White House to Capitol Hill to the Garden State, lawmakers mourned the loss of Rep. Donald Payne, a New Jersey congressman who was the Congressional Black Caucus’ go-to member when it came to foreign affairs.

WATCH: In First Press Conference of 2012, Obama Pressed on Iran and Foreign Policy Decisions

In his first press conference of the year Tuesday, President Barack Obama spent the bulk of his time explaining his foreign policy on Iran and Israel.

“Iranian” Journalist Arrested in New Delhi Bomb Attack Case

Police arrested an Indian journalist in
connection with last month’s bombing of an Israeli diplomatic vehicle in
New Delhi, authorities said Wednesday, the first apparent breakthrough
in an attack that Israel accused Iran of orchestrating.

Pictured: FILE
- In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Indian police forensics experts
investigate the scene after an explosion tore through a car belonging to
the Israel Embassy in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Black Students Face Harsher Discipline In America’s Schools

More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to an Education Department report that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America’s schools.

Mysterious ‘Nodding’ Disease Killing Children in Uganda

The Ugandan government has come under fire for its handling of a mysterious disease that has killed hundreds of children in the northern part of this impoverished East African nation.