Dr. James Rosser, perhaps best known for his work with TV’s “Dr.Oz”, says 21 million Americans suffer from chronic heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), but it doesn’t have to be that way. “They take medicines and they suffer side effects that they do not realize. The big downside is this causes esophageal cancer,” said […]

Can’t wait to see more of Faith, Nicci, Monifah, Keke and Syleena on “R&B Divas”? You can catch a sneak peek below and meet Atlanta’s newest divas:  LaTocha Scott and Angie Stone. Catch the premiere of season two on Wednesday, May 1 at 10/9c on TV One. (Photo: TVOne)

Emma McQuiston is set to be Britain’s first black Marchioness in England. A Marchiness is a noblewoman ranking above a countess and below a duchess. She is also called a marquise. She is going to wed Ceawlin Thynne, the 38-year-old Viscount of Weymouth. The 26-year-old celebrity chef and British actress is the daughter of Nigerian […]

I guess when it comes to cracking down on takers, apparently Tennessee lawmakers like Stacy Campfield and Vance Dennis can’t see the greedy corporations for all the needy kids. But chances are their warped lenses on reality are obstructing their view. Not long ago Campfield, R-Knoxville, and Dennis, R-Savannah, introduced legislation that would tie families’ […]

As a father of a teenage daughter, I was particularly alarmed to learn that a 9-year-old girl was sexually abused during a lunch break in a Harlem school – and the crime went unpunished because the principal never called the police or investigated the allegations. The girl’s mother told The New York Daily News that […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson‘s mother against the promoter of the late pop star’s planned comeback concerts. Dozens of prospective jurors answered written questionnaires that gauged their ability to serve on the trial, which may last three months. One 24-page section of the questionnaire focused […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A transgender Arizona man whose divorce request was rejected after his marriage was declared invalid plans to keep trying to get his 9-year union dissolved, saying Tuesday that he wants the three children to whom he gave birth to know their parents’ marriage was legitimate. Thomas Beatie, wearing a dress shirt and […]

Louisville’s Kevin Ware has taken what he said would be the hardest step in his recovery — the first one. The sophomore guard was back on the Cardinals’ campus Tuesday afternoon after he had been released from an Indianapolis hospital, two days after millions watched him break his right leg on a horrifying play trying […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to GOP bosses to let him run for mayor of New York City as a Republican. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called it an “unappetizing smorgasbord of […]

NEWINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Customers packed gun stores around Connecticut on Tuesday ahead of a vote expected to bring sweeping changes to the state’s gun control laws, including a ban on the sale of large-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown shooting and a new classification for more than 100 types of […]

NELSON, Ga. (AP) — Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights. The ordinance in the city of Nelson — population 1,300 — was approved Monday night and goes into effect in 10 days. However, it […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner’s office says two potential pieces of human remains have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center site. The office says the discovery was made Monday. About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny human bone fragments have […]