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Wait…WHAT the WHAT? According to Dead Spin, last Sunday an amateur soccer match in Brazil came to a horrific end when a referee was…
PITTSBURGH (AP)—A woman fired from a Pittsburgh-area spa has sued, saying she was wrongly fired after she refused to let another employee perform a hair-removing wax procedure on her during training. Jennifer Finley, of Wexford, has sued the European Wax Center in Ross Township, just north of Pittsburgh. Finley contends she understood that part of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Last offseason, the Houston Rockets were an afterthought, a young team with little star power. Now, after trading for James Harden just before this past season and adding Dwight Howard on Friday, Houston is suddenly primed to contend sooner than almost anybody expected. Still, Houston general manager Daryl Morey knows nabbing Howard […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers are sending a message of confidence in the economy — hiring more workers, raising pay and making the job market appear strong enough for the Federal Reserve to slow its bond purchases as early as September. The economy gained a robust 195,000 jobs in June and many more in April […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety as flames tore through the plane. In addition to the two deaths […]
After President Barack Obama delivered his historic Africa address at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, NewsOne got the opportunity to speak with…
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans voted early Wednesday to move forward with new abortion restrictions, after limiting testimony at a public hearing, refusing to consider…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces “impending death,” court documents show. The former president’s health is “perilous,” according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves. “The anticipation of his […]
WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Court documents indicate the search of a secret “flop house” leased by former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has turned up what police say could be key evidence in the murder case against him. Search warrants records indicate that police searching the Franklin, Mass., apartment found a sweatshirt and baseball cap […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A family feud over the burial site of three of Nelson Mandela’s children intensified Tuesday when criminal charges were filed against one of his grandsons, as the ailing 94-year-old former president remained hospitalized in critical condition. Sixteen relatives have taken grandson Mandla Mandela to court after he reburied the children’s remains in […]
Paula Deen on Monday pushed to have dismissed part of a racial discrimination lawsuit against her – the part in which she confessed to using the N-word in a deposition – claiming the woman who sued her had no legal basis for her lawsuit because she is white. Dean’s lawyers are basing this challenge on […]
DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor on Tuesday asked for the public’s help in finding a car mirror connected to the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Police are seeking the driver’s side rearview mirror from a silver Nissan Altima that Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter said may be […]
