Michael Jordan said there’s no way Kobe Bryant and this year’s USA Olympic basketball team could’ve beaten the 1992 Dream Team. (Photo: AP) Michael Jordan said there’s no way Kobe Bryant and this year’s USA Olympic basketball team could’ve beaten the 1992 Dream Team. Jordan told The Associated Press Thursday that he laughed […]
Oprah Winfrey’s father is being accused of threatening to kill his wife. Barbara Winfrey says Vernon Winfrey has been cheating throughout their 12-year marriage and has threatened to take her life, say divorce documents filed in Tennessee, reports Radar Online. The soon-to-be ex-wife even went public with the matter. “I know what is going on. […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities say an incomplete tunnel designed to smuggle drugs into the United States has been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack said Thursday that the approximately 220-yard passage was lit and ventilated. It began under a bathroom sink inside a warehouse and did not cross […]
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a southwestern Oregon city's police department can collect a $1 million cash prize originally awarded to a woman who authorities say bought a scratch ticket through illegal means in 2005. The Mail Tribune reports 45-year-old Christina Elizabeth Goodenow argues stripping her of the […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 2012 Essence Music Festival drew 413,000 people to New Orleans for the four-day event held over the Fourth of July weekend. That's down two percent from the 422,000 who gathered for last year's festival, when it ran for three days. This was the 18th anniversary of the festival, which features […]
Eddie Murphy is alive and well, despite Twitter rumors to the contrary. The actor was a trending topic on Wednesday with false reports that he had lost control of his snowboard, crashed into a tree and died from his injuries. Not true. The hoax likely stems from a February 2012 story by Global Associated News, […]
The question I’m about to ask might raise a few eyebrows. Here it is: When it comes to issues of race, should we censor ourselves when speaking to those outside of our race? Let’s start with record-breaking Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson. Johnson, now a commentator for the BBC, recently said: "Difficult as it […]
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Maria Hawkins Cole, widow of jazz crooner Nat "King" Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole, has died in South Florida after a short battle with cancer. She was 89. A representative of the family confirmed that she died Tuesday at a Boca Raton hospice, surrounded by her family. Before […]
Special Prosecutor Angela Corey has just released another round of evidence in her second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman. The report includes a first look at what FBI agents have turned up in their civil rights investigation. According to the Orlando Sentinel, at least 10 FBI agents have prepared reports. Among those interviewed by the […]
Desperate times are fostering desperate reactions in Chicago, where even before the calendar so much as officially turned to summer a spiraling gang problem now has the city wickedly on course toward recording the most homicides of any year in its history. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is championing a high-stakes, aspirational crime-busting alliance between the city’s […]
D.C.’s nonvoting delegate to Congress said it is time for the Mayor Vincent Gray to clear the air concerning the rumors about the corruption investigation of his 2010 election campaign. “Vincent Gray is a friend of longstanding who I have always known to have high professional and ethical standards,” Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D) said in a […]
Remember that Kool and the Gang song “Too Hot”? Well, heat is the way across most of the country. If you have any elderly or shut-in folks, please be neighborly and check on them if the mercury is registering temps in your area of 90 degrees and above. And that’s certainly likely as the U.S. […]
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