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The alleged getaway driver told police she was watched and targeted for a robbery.
UPDATE 04/18/17 CLEVELAND (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police say the suspect in the random killing of a Cleveland retiree posted on Facebook has shot and killed himself after a brief pursuit. State police say Steve Stephens was spotted Tuesday morning by state police in Erie County, in the state’s northwest corner. Authorities say police tried […]
The outspoken 78-year-old California Congresswoman is not holding back when it comes to #45!
Over the years, we have all heard the stories of how many African-Americans and others are returning home to the South or moving there in search of a better life. The lure of sleepy neighborhoods, cheaper housing, safer schools, and an all-around better lifestyle that seems to elude larger cities, is what draws people to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Portrait Gallery is putting up a photograph of American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, often referred to as “The First Lady of Song.” The portrait is on view beginning Thursday, ahead of the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald’s birth. Fitzgerald, who died in 1996 at the age of 79, would have celebrated […]
Dan Rooney, the powerful and popular Pittsburgh Steelers chairman whose name is attached to the NFL’s landmark initiative in minority hiring, died Thursday. He was 84. The team announced his death but details were not immediately available. Rooney took over operation of the team in the 1960s from his father, Art, who founded the franchise. From […]
The bomb, nicknamed 'the mother of all bombs' was the largest weapon in the U.S. military arsenal.
A tragedy hit Shaniqua Stephens when she found her 13-year-old son dead in the bathroom on Monday. According to 11 Alive, Stephens had just seen her son, Malachi Hemphill, taking out the trash when she “heard a big boom.” “I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said. Stephens and her daughter rushed […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A second Georgia police officer was fired Thursday, less than 24 hours after authorities fired another officer for kicking a handcuffed man in the head. Atlanta’s News 11 reports: In the 10-second-long, new video, a police officer, identified as Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni, a 19-year police veteran, can be seen pulling the driver, […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl was convicted Thursday of criminally negligent homicide in a school bathroom attack in Delaware that left a 16-year-old classmate dead. The ruling came in a nonjury trial for three girls charged in the death of Amy Joyner-Francis. All three were 16 when the fight happened last year and […]
CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines sought to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane by announcing on Tuesday that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights and would compensate customers who were on the flight when the man was removed. In an interview with ABC’s “Good […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The first black woman appointed to the state’s highest court has been found dead on the bank of the Hudson River. Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s body was discovered along the riverside near Harlem on Wednesday, a day after she was reported missing, police said. Police said her body showed no obvious signs of […]
