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HOUSTON (AP) — A tank holding a flammable chemical caught fire at a Texas plant Tuesday, killing one worker, critically injuring two others and sending panicked employees fleeing over a fence to safety. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed the fatality in a tweet and said the two injured had been taken by helicopter to […]
BOSTON (AP) — Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are expected in court Wednesday to face charges that they participated in a wide-ranging college admissions cheating scam. The actresses along with Loughlin’s fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and dozens of others were charged last month in a scheme in which authorities say parents paid an […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot’s resounding victory was a clear call for change at City Hall and a historic repudiation of the old-style, insider politics that have long defined the nation’s third-largest city. Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor who’d never been elected to public office, defeated Cook County Board President and longtime City […]
We guess Tracy Morgan figured since Chris Rock opened the door on jokes about Jussie Smollett at the Image Awards, he might as well walk on through with his. Monday night on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” Morgan lit into the “Empire” star about his story that a lot folks find questionable regarding his alleged racist attack. Tracy cracked Fallon […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Blockbusters are a clear favorite among the audience of theater owners and distributors at the CinemaCon trade convention for a simple reason: They’re the ones that make the most money. But this year, the show kicked off Tuesday morning with a presentation from a different type of studio: STX Films, which […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown‘s mother was defeated Tuesday in her bid for a seat on the City Council in Ferguson, Missouri, where her son died in a police shooting that helped give rise to the national Black Lives Matter movement. Lesley McSpadden finished third in a three-way race in Ferguson’s 3rd Ward. Unofficial […]
ACCORDING TO THE CDC, NEARLY 400 INDIVIDUAL CASES OF MEASLES HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED IN 15 STATES SO FAR THIS YEAR. THIS IS THE SECOND GREATEST NUMBER OF CASES REPORTED IN THE U.S. SINCE MEASLES WAS DECLARED ELIMINATED IN 2000. WHAT EXACTLY IS MEASLES? Measles is caused by a virus. WHY IS IT MAKING A COMEBACK […]
This coming Friday (April 5), the film The Best Of Enemies, starring award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson as civil rights activist Ann Atwater, makes its debut. Based on author Osha Gray Davidson’s book, the movie focuses on how Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis, played by Sam Rockwell, forged an unlikely partnership in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith didn’t have plans to become an actor, but that changed when Emilio Estevez’s mom saw the songwriter’s documentary about reconnecting with his long-lost father, who had been homeless for decades. Estevez’s mom watched Rhymefest’s 2015 doc “In My Father’s House” around the time her son was […]
Some might say that the best thing about the CBS revival of The Twilight Zone is having Jordan Peele behind it. Others might argue the exact opposite while criticizing the filmmaker for serving up a contrived hot mess. This new Twilight Zone will only be available on CBS All Access, where you can watch the first episode for […]
A man police say was the triggerman that gunned down Nipsey Hussle has been apprehended. 29-year-old Eric Holder was captured in Bellflower, California, about 30 minutes outside of Los Angeles. https://twitter.com/cbsla/status/1113176738031271936?s=21 Holder was captured after he called the Los Angeles Community Hospital at Bellflower (a psychiatric hospital) to reportedly check himself in. Los Angeles police chief Michael Moore […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys and the judge on Tuesday excused six potential jurors from the murder trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home. Mohamed Noor, 33, is charged in the July 2017 death of 40-year-old Justine […]
