PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernard Hopkins is more grill master than grill pitchman, willing to fire it up for hunks of organic chicken or fresh salmon. Maybe some buffalo. When he’s not always cooking his own meals, Hopkins shifts interests toward tasteful decor. He keeps his eyes peeled — and behind Prada glasses — for the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — They partied like it was 1999 — the audience and the musicians — at a Prince tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. More than 20 performers, including Elvis Costello, The Roots and the Waterboys, paid tribute to the pop icon in a two-hour-plus concert Thursday night. They all joined together onstage to […]

COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force. Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a […]

ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — A man wanted in a string of attacks last year against women in Georgia was charged Friday with killing a young woman in Minnesota whose bloodied body was found hidden in blankets in her mother’s towed car. Alberto Prece Palmer, 23, is charged with one count of second-degree murder in the […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia school parents, students and staff are coming to grips with the impending closure of 23 public schools. University City High School Principal Timothy Stults said Friday his students are grieving the loss of their school, which will close in June. A day earlier, officials voted to shutter about 10 percent of […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A town of 140 people in western Maine is considering an ordinance making gun ownership mandatory, the latest of a handful of communities nationwide to pass or consider such a rule even though the measures are widely considered unenforceable. All three members of the Board of Selectmen in Byron favor it, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market isn’t just growing. It’s accelerating. Employers added 236,000 jobs in February and drove down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, its lowest level in more than four years. The gains signal that companies are confident enough in the economy to intensify hiring even in the face of tax […]

R&B crooner, Keith Sweat has launched a new dating website called True Love Meets. The “Nobody” singer even has a new relationship book called, “Make it Last Forever: the Do’s & Don’ts.” It seems like a lot of celebrity men know what it takes to date and love successfully. From Tyrese and Steve Harvey, men dishing out love advice is a trend […]

NBA star Lamar Odom found himself in a New York courthouse this week for a child custody hearing with his children’s mother Liza Morales. According to reports, the former high school sweethearts are bickering over child support, visitation and whether their 14-year-old daughter Destiny and 9-year-old son Lamar Jr. should appear on their reality TV shows. […]

A 28-year-old Oklahoma woman was caught with drugs and a firearm in all of the wrong places. The Smoking Gun reports that Christie Dawn Harris was arrested on Monday, after Ada police officers spotted her and another woman, Jennifer Delancy, inside of a vehicle outside of a closed restaurant. Cops noticed that “both seats were laid all the way back.” When […]

Clifford Smith (pictured) is facing charges of simple assault and vandalism after he reportedly choked a wheelchair-bound woman for eating the last piece of chicken at a dinner gathering, reports WAFB 9. According to a police report, Smith, 44, and some other people sat down for dinner on Sunday evening. When there was only one piece of chicken left, […]

The folks at ESSENCE.com, posted a blog written by her much talked about new song “Brand New Me”. Speculation about what or whom she is addressing has been floating around the internets, so it’s actually nice to hear her take on the very personal song she penned. “It’s about discovering a new version of myself,” said Keys. Judging […]