Tennessee State, No. 1 among HBCUs and No. 18 in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) poll, fell from the unbeaten ranks in an overtime road loss to Jacksonville (Ala.) State on Saturday. Tennessee State, No. 1 among HBCUs and No. 18 in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) poll, fell from the unbeaten ranks […]

The Tom Joyner Morning Show crew woke up Philadelphia with an energizing dance competition at Tom Joyner’s Take A Loved One To The Doctor Health Festival.

Katt Williams is taking his beef with Faizon Love quite personal. Williams is allegedly calling Faizon Love a big fat snitch and a bald-face rat for going public about Williams pulling a gun on him last week. Faizon told reporters that he feared for his life during the altercation at a Hollywood night club. Even […]

A young girl protected her family’s Oklahoma home by shooting a burglar. Kendra St. Clair was home alone when she discovered a man breaking into her house. "I was scared and I didn't know what to do next," Kendra told reporters. She immediately called her mother, Debra who told her to get the family’s gun. […]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have the ability to swindle Ohio voters simply through the voting machine. New reports claim that Romney owns stock in Hart Intercivic, the company responsible for calculating the voting results in Hamilton County. This is not the first time voting machines have been called into question during a presidential […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge agreed Friday to reopen the armed robbery and kidnapping case against former football star O.J. Simpson to determine if the former football star was so badly represented by his lawyers that he should be freed from prison and get another trial. Simpson wasn't in a Las Vegas courtroom […]

Mellody Hobson talks about debt consolidation. — You know those commercials you see that say they help you “get of debt the quick and easy way?” Debt consolidation companies can paint a very rosy picture for people who are struggling to get out of debt. And between credit cards, medical bills, and household expenses, that […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling some of its spray-on products after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the lotion. Energizer Holdings is pulling nearly two dozen formulations of UltraMist off store shelves due to the risk that the lotion can ignite when exposed […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The parents of an 8-year-old boy who has had severe brain damage for years have sued a Chicago hospital, alleging that doctors pronounced their son dead, keeping him off his ventilator for hours, even though relatives continued to insist that the boy's eyes and body were still moving. The lawsuit filed this […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said. Vindalee Smith, 38, was found on the floor of her apartment in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn with a gaping wound in her neck. It wasn't clear […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. spoke out about his treatment for depression for the first time since the start of his secretive, four-month leave of absence, releasing a robocall Saturday to his south Chicago constituents in which he asks for patience while he recovers. The 47-year-old Illinois Democrat and son of civil rights […]