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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old Florida man pulled a gun on a late-arriving furniture delivery team, saying he’s “shot people for less.” Manatee County Sheriff’s investigators say Mitchell Helton is charged with two counts of aggravated assault. He was arrested Aug. 3 after the delivery team called the sheriff’s office. The Bradenton […]
Tyrese made time to take yet another jab at Dwayne Johnson over his “takeover” of the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Okay — Johnson hasn’t really taken over the hit film series, but his latest actioner, “Hobbs & Shaw” allegedly pushed back the premiere date of Gibson’s “Fast & Furious 10” to 2021. For those unaware — “Hobbs & […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons has explained a social media post that seemed to imply he’d been racially profiled by security staff at a Melbourne casino by saying he and his friends felt “singled out.” Simmons posted a video on Instagram in which he asked why he and two black friends […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A decision on whether Meek Mill will be retried in a drug and gun case has been delayed until later this month. The 32-year-old rapper has been on probation most of his adult life over the teenage arrest. His case was overturned last month because of credibility concerns about the arresting officer. […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is becoming the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana on Tuesday, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to therapeutic cannabis. Nine pharmacies are licensed to dispense medical marijuana across Louisiana and most are expected to open this week. Louisiana joins more than 30 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993. The Swedish academy hailed her use of language and her […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jemele Hill, the ESPN host who departed the sports network a year after tweeting that President Donald Trump was a white supremacist, has a book deal. Hill’s memoir will be published in 2021, Henry Holt and Company announced Tuesday. The book, Hill’s first, is currently untitled. RELATED: Jemele Hill Is ‘Very Excited’ […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended years ago for compiling a “hit list” and a “rape list,” and questioned how he could have been allowed to buy the military-style weapon used in this weekend’s attack. The accounts emerged after police […]
Bringing over 20 years of experience in the broadcast industry, R&B crooner Al B. Sure! is sharing his feeling for the music, the moment and a personal connection every Sunday through Friday, 7PM to midnight during his new radio show aptly named “Love & R&B”. Al’s vision for the new show is to take the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the comedy world’s biggest stars — including Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Kevin Smith, Nicole Byer and Trevor Noah — will headline this year’s New York Comedy Festival. The weeklong festival will also feature Norm McDonald, Randy Rainbow, Nate Bargatze, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Vir Das, Kathleen Madigan, Demetri Martin, Tom […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Valentina Sampaio has become the first openly transgender model hired by Victoria’s Secret nearly a year after a top company official was pressured to apologize for implying trans women are off brand. Sampaio, a Brazilian, has been posting from behind the scenes of a VS Pink campaign to the delight of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday filed a more serious charge against a Houston man already jailed in connection with the death of his ex-fiancee’s 4-year-old daughter. Derion Vence was charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child in the death of Maleah Davis, whose remains were found by an Arkansas highway on May 31, nearly […]
