According to a guy who never directly worked for her, First Lady Michelle Obama is a tough boss. That was the takeaway from a story in The New Republic entitled The Worst Wing: How the East Wing Shrank Michelle Obama written by Reid Cherlin, a former White House assistant press secretary. Chief among his criticisms are […]

  Who would’ve thought rapper The Game would be the one to motivate Lala Anthony to lose weight. She joins “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show”…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers Wednesday approved raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest for any state in the country and the same rate that President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who recently appeared with Obama and several New England governors […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Secret Service agent found drunk by staff at a Dutch hotel was recalled to the U.S. along with two of his colleagues, the day before President Barack Obama was set to arrive in the Netherlands. Word of another embarrassing incident to hit the elite agency came as the president was midway […]

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Northwestern football players could unionize. Does that mean some players will be able to organize and get better health care and academic support? Or does it spell the end of college sports as we know it? The AP takes a look at all […]

Evelyn Lozada of VH1′s “Basketball Wives” straight ripped Wendy Williams for suggesting that her new baby with L.A. Dodgers baseball player Carl Crawford is nothing more than a means to a lifelong paycheck. During the “Hot Topics” segment of Monday’s The Wendy Williams Show, (at 5:45 in the video above) the host said of the new […]

Robin Thicke claims his estranged wife Paula Patton was moved by his public pleas to win her back after she left him in mid February. Thicke, who made several public appeals to his wife during his concerts, tells People.com, “My music is very honest about what I’m going through and my songs are about my […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Joe Brown gained fame by meting out justice as a TV judge. Now he’s the one facing charges. Brown, the star of the television show “Judge Joe Brown” and present-day political candidate, has a court hearing April 4 in Tennessee on his challenge of contempt of court charges handed down Monday […]

Joe Morton plays Rowan Pope on the hit TV drama “Scandal.” He talks to “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” about what it’s like to play…

An arrest warrant has been issued for “Scandal” star Columbus Short for felony aggravated battery stemming from his bar fight earlier this month, reports TMZ. The actor allegedly sucker-punched a man after he made a crack about Short’s wife. The victim suffered a broken nose in the attack and was rendered unconscious for several minutes. […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Less than six months on the job, the mayor of Charlotte was arrested Wednesday and accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do work with North Carolina’s largest city. According to the Associated Press, he has now resigned. Mayor Patrick […]

Howard Hewett made history back in the day as a singer in popular  music group, Shalamar. It’s been years since the group last perfomed, but…