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NEW YORK (AP) — The pre-paid debit card company that cut off thousands of its customers from their money for more than a week says the problems are now mostly fixed. RushCard, a pre-paid card backed by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, said Thursday the “vast majority” of customer problems were resolved. Still, a “handful” are […]
A White South Carolina coroner is in the hot seat for using the n-word while reporting an altercation between his Black neighbor, Leroy Fulton, and the…
A Maryland couple has accused police officers of tampering with evidence of their alleged unlawful arrest last year. Juley Harris (popularly known as local artist…
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A black man who was a public housing inspector and part-time drummer was shot three times by a plainclothes police officer near his broken down vehicle on Interstate 95 and never fired his own gun, attorneys for his family said Thursday. Corey Jones had five wounds — some […]
No one outside of the couple knows what Alabama sports reporter Natalie Pierre Williams and her husband Chasten Leigh Williams were arguing about but whatever it was may have led Natalie, 26, to drive off the road. When her husband realized no one was hurt in the minor car accident, he says he walked away, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A career criminal accused of killing a police officer had been released from jail into a drug diversion program and was wanted in a shooting last month, said Police Commissioner William Bratton, noting that the suspect had shown an increasing level of violence and shouldn’t have been on the streets. Tyrone […]
A Black man who spent six weeks in jail has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for jailing him for wearing a hoodie.
Remember the North Carolina woman who won millions in the Powerball in February ? Her fiance has been arrested for the third time in 11 months, and yes, she was there to bail him out — again. WNCN reports: Lamarr Andre McDow, also known as “Hot Sauce,” was arrested Monday morning under a charge of possession […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer died after being shot in the head in a gun battle while pursuing a suspect following a report of shots fired, police said. “He is the fourth New York City police officer murdered in this city in the last 11 months,” Police Commissioner William Bratton […]
Not even the threat of being sold into slavery could stop Samuel Burris, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, from helping slaves to freedom in the 19th century. A free black man, Burris was caught helping a slave try to escape from Delaware in 1847. After Burris was tried and found guilty of enticing slaves […]
Katina Powell, a 42-year-old self-described former escort in Kentucky, has come forward with details of nearly two-dozen stripping and sex parties held from 2010 to 2014 for recruits of the University of Louisville’s basketball team. Five former University of Louisville basketball players and recruits told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that they attended such parties at […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The deaths of two adults and three young children who were in an SUV that plunged into an Arizona lake are being investigated as a murder-suicide as police said Monday that the father of the youngsters deliberately drove the vehicle into the water. Police spokesman Lt. Mike Pooley said 27-year-old Glenn Edward […]
