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PHOENIX (AP) — Muhammad Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, has died according to a statement released by his family. He was 74. Ali suffered for years from Parkinson’s disease, which ravaged his body but could never dim his larger-than-life presence. He was hospitalized […]

Doing very little to deny the rumors that the two are dating, Toni Braxton and Birdman appeared on stage together at her Atlanta show Thursday night. The The Gossip Twins‘ Instagram account captured the kind of cute, kind of awkward moment on stage. You can even hear Toni saying “put some respek on that man’s name” and […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Newly public police records in Bill Cosby‘s criminal sex-assault case show his accuser planned to confront him weeks after their 2004 encounter but backed off when he got too close to her. Andrea Constand told police she “just wanted to confront him about it and ask some questions” when she returned to […]

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CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio man says he lunged at his daughter’s killer in court because the defendant smiled disrespectfully at him. Courtroom deputies in Cleveland grabbed Van Terry after he leaped across a courtroom table Thursday minutes after a judge sentenced Michael Madison to death in the killings of his daughter and two other […]

It's splitsville for Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore and her younger beau Matt Jordan.

Former Destiny's Child member, Farrah Franklin, was arrested again, but this time it wasn't for disorderly conduct. Farrah was busted for hitting the bottle a little too hard.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Tests show that Prince died of an opioid overdose, a law-enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate. The official, who is close to the investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the […]

Tamartian fans rejoice! Tamar Braxton announced on a nationally syndicated radio show Thursday that she has been given her very own talk show. She explains to the hosts about the day she found out the news of her departure from The Real. “Vince made a call to (The Real) to talk about glam for Essence Festival…and then […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles (all times local): 7:15 a.m. Los Angeles police have identified the man they say carried out a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus. A police spokeswoman, Officer Jenny Houser, says the gunman was Mainak Sarkar. Sarkar gunned down mechanical engineering […]

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“I’ve come a long way since ‘Kazaam,’” says Shaquille O’Neal of his latest professional endeavor — moonlighting as a Lyft driver. The superstar NBA vet recently went undercover to drive unsuspecting Lyft users in Atlanta to their destinations. He pretended to be Jamaican, a Frenchman and an Atlanta Hawks hater, among other things to throw […]

An English teacher in Conroe, Texas has been released from jail after accusations of her having sex with a 13-year-old student became public. Click2Houston.com reports: Prosecutors said Alexandria Vera had a sexual relationship with one of her students and also got pregnant by the eighth-grader. An Aldine Independent School District peace officer was assigned to […]

Comedian and Actor Aries Spears is headlining the Addison Improv this weekend, but before the funny man hits the stage, he talks about Bill Cosby, as only he can, and gives us the lowdown on some of his favorite celebrity impressions. On Bill Cosby: “I didn’t want to believe him for the first 84 women…I […]