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President Obama’s “Organizing for Action” arm retweeted Yoko Ono’s photo of her murdered husband John Lennon’s bloody glasses Thursday night, just as the Senate was preparing a new gun-control package. The picture, published on Yoko Ono’s account a day earlier, contained the text: “Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since […]

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Coolio has caused controversy by alleging his appearance on ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap” was fake, and he wasn’t in a relationship with the woman who posed as his girlfriend. The rapper took part in the series with a woman named Mimi, who he claimed to be his longt-erm partner, and they were rumored to have […]

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — The live-in caretaker of a western Pennsylvania mansion is facing criminal charges for allegedly drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner’s whiskey. Scottdale police have charged 62-year-old John Saunders with receiving stolen property and theft. Police tell The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the owner found nine cases of whiskey hidden in the […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools officials ended months of speculation when they released the list of 54 schools the city plans to close, but the pushback against Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his schools chief is likely just starting to ramp up. As word of the schools on the long-awaited closings list trickled out Thursday, […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Under orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control facilities that it will close at small airports around the country starting early next month. The closures will not force the shutdown of any of those […]

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Police arrested two teenagers Friday who are suspected in the shooting death of a baby in a stroller and the wounding of the baby’s mother during an attempted robbery. Seventeen-year-old De’Marquis Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is […]

Money

WASHINGTON — Do you know your number? That would be the amount of money you need — including your Social Security and a pension (if you have one) — to retire comfortably. A few years ago, the financial services company ING created a humorous advertising campaign around “Your Number.” Here’s how one ad went: Neighbor: […]

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DOVER, Del. — Delaware State Police have charged five teenagers in the carjacking and kidnapping of an 89-year-old Lincoln woman. Police said Thursday that Margaret E. Smith was locked in the trunk of her car for almost two days before being dumped at a cemetery east of Seaford, where she was found Wednesday morning wandering around the […]

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HOUSTON — A Houston man is jailed on charges he repeatedly raped an 11-year-old neighbor who became pregnant. Authorities say the girl delivered a baby Thursday. Twenty-one-year-old Deandrea Devon Davis-Williams  was arrested late Tuesday night and charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child. A judge Thursday tripled Davis-Williams’ original $50,000 bond and set arraignment for April […]

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Police were combing school records and canvassing a coastal Georgia neighborhood Friday for a pair of suspects between 10 and 15 years old accused of killing a baby in a stroller and wounding his mother in an attempted robbery. The mother, Sherry West, told WAWS-TV that two boys approached her and […]

Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) will convene their annual national convention April 3-6 to address civil rights, religion, immigration and many other key social justice issues that impact African Americans and people of color. The convention will take place at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers and is free and […]

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