When we first heard that Mike Vick had gone through nearly $30 million since his 2008 bankruptcy filing, we thought we’d have to add his name to ever growing list of (black) athletes who have blown their fortunes. However, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has a happy ending in store. Michael Vick has blown through nearly […]

Audie’s dead.   Audie Mickens, that is. Name doesn’t ring a bell?   Mickens gained his 15 minutes of fame four years ago, when the Home Box Office documentary “Hard Times at Douglass High” was released. Actually, it was more like 15 seconds of infamy.   At the time the documentary was made, Douglass, yes, […]

No doubt LeBron James has endorsed many a product, but we can assume without question, heroin is not one of them; and the Philadelphia drug dealer selling packets of the stuff labeled “LEBRON JAMES” recently got the memo. The Philadelphia Daily news reports the Upper Darby police busted a major heroin dealer from Philadelphia on […]

TLC, the TV home of Honey Boo Boo, has come up with its answer to VH1’s “Hollywood Exes.” The cable channel has booked the former wives or girlfriends of DMX, Lamar Odom, 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. for its new reality series “Starter Wives,” reports Variety. According to a press release for the network, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating two gangs called the Very Crispy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook. "Rockstarz up 3-0," one suspect boasted — a reference to the body count from […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Of the four openly gay members of Congress, the two longest-serving stalwarts are vacating their seats. Instead of fretting, their activist admirers are excited about a record number of gays vying to win seats in the next Congress — and to make history in the process. When the oaths of office […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters won't have to show photo identification to cast ballots on Election Day, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling on the state's controversial voter ID law that could help President Barack Obama in a presidential battleground state. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson delayed Pennsylvania's voter ID requirement from taking […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives on Tuesday used a speech President Barack Obama delivered as a candidate in 2007 to accuse him of using racially charged rhetoric. "There's no way you can listen to this speech and not hear it as a deliberately divisive speech that pits Americans against each other and does so largely with […]

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing suspended the city's top law enforcement officer Tuesday amid allegations that the married police chief of police had a sexual relationship with a subordinate. Chief Ralph Godbee and Angelica Robinson, an internal affairs officer, had been in a relationship that she eventually tried to end, said her attorney, […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday blocked Pennsylvania's divisive voter identification requirement from going into effect on Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats who said it was a ploy to defeat President Barack Obama and other opponents who said it would prevent the elderly and minorities from voting. The decision by […]

When you hear the words “forensic psychiatry,” you most likely think of shows like “CSI” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” or those FBI profilers who come on news programs to discuss the psychology of a serial killer. It looks pretty sexy on a crime solving series, but forensic psychiatry is much more basic in […]

You know the desperation is thick when the other side has to stoop to talking about someone’s mama to lure voters. Yet that’s the latest tactic that wing-nuts are deploying in their war to destroy President Obama’s chances of being re-elected. They can’t win by lying about his record, as too many fact-checking organizations have […]