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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Retired boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard said Monday he cried for Jerry Sandusky's accusers after hearing of the former Penn State assistant football coach's arrest on child sex abuse charges nearly a year ago. An abuse survivor himself, Leonard said he hopes the accusers can draw from his own story […]
The man who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff leveled a blistering attack against the Republican Party after Mitt Romney presidential campaign surrogate John Sununu suggested that the only reason Powell endorsed President Barack Obama for re-election is because they’re both black. Lawrence Wilkerson, who is a white Republican, said […]
A Brazilian woman is experiencing motherhood much later than usual. Sixty-one year old Antonia Leticia Rovati Asti gave birth to twins last week. This is the first time Asti has become a mother. Thanks to her doctor, Dr. Orlando Castro Neto, Asti was able to experience a late-in-life pregnancy. Dr. Neto, an assistant reproduction specialist, […]
According to the Huffington Post, Ann Coulter defended calling President Barack Obama ‘the retard' during the third and final presidential debate, saying, “screw them” to critics of her tweet. Read more at NewsOne.com.
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights. Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta […]
A Massachusetts man’s clowning around lands him in jail. James Vosolo who works as a professional clown is facing criminal charges after he solicited sex from a truck driver at a truck stop. The police report said Vosolo allegedly jumped into a tractor-trailer at a truck stop completely naked, grabbed the driver and asked him […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish off that provision. The basic question is […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny suspected of stabbing two young children to death in a luxury apartment near Central Park was in critical condition Friday with apparently self-inflicted injuries. The children's mother, Marina Krim, came home with her 3-year-old daughter on Thursday evening. Puzzled by the darkened apartment, she returned to the lobby to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, who once called bank executives "fat cats" and their pay "obscene," says Wall Street needs to change executive pay incentives that reward risky bets that can yield fortunes but can also devastate financial institutions. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Obama says that despite congressional passage of a […]
Romney needs your vote. So he wants you to forget that he’s the guy that called on the government to “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”. He would also like you to forget that President Obama’s successful bailout of the auto industry helped facilitate Detroit auto maker’s return to solid financial footing and rescued more than 100 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Their lives on hold for years, young adults are now making big moves in the fledgling economic recovery, leaving college towns or parents' homes and heading out of state at the highest rate since the height of the housing boom. New census data released Thursday offer a detailed look at U.S. migration […]
A student nurse, Rejane Moreira Telles, of Brazil accidently injected coffee into the veins of an 80-year-old patient this past week. Telles, 23, claims she had only three days of experience, she defends the accident saying, "anyone can get confused." The patient died hours later from the accident. The nurse has been charged with involuntary […]
