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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy got into an argument with his family when he didn’t want to get out of bed and go to school and he shot his grandmother, a younger sister and a 6-year-old nephew, authorities said. Metro Nashville Police said in a statement that the boy’s mother and grandmother told […]
NEW YORK (AP) — POTUS will be making a debut appearance this year at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. No, that’s not some hipster band. It’s the 44th president of the United States. President Barack Obama will be the first sitting president to speak at the annual music, film and interactive media […]
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi are searching for a capital murder suspect who escaped from a county jail and is considered armed and dangerous. Multiple news outlets report that 33-year-old Rafael McCloud escaped from the Warren County jail around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace says McCloud briefly took a jail […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man while helping serve an arrest warrant last month is to be fired, the department announced Tuesday. “Officer John Lee has been issued a contemplated indefinite suspension for placing himself unnecessarily in a tactical situation wherein he felt compelled […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two remarkably similar murder cases that amplified concerns about campus safety are expected to end when a Virginia man enters a plea deal that will spare him a possible death sentence. Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr. is expected to enter pleas resolving the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington cases Wednesday, according to […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey. Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station […]
Every Wednesday in March on BlackAmericaWeb.com, we’re celebrating Women’s History Month with dedicated content celebrating all things #BlackGirlMagic, #Herstory or whatever clever term you want to insert that represents all the wonders which is womanhood. So let’s hear it for the women (and girls) who are kicking butt, whether it is launching a clothing line […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton claimed Super Tuesday victories in the Georgia and Virginia Democratic primaries, while rival Bernie Sanders carried his home state of Vermont. Republican races in those states were too close to call as polls closed. Super Tuesday marked the busiest day of the 2016 primaries, with the biggest single-day delegate haul […]
Texas police are questioning a handful of people after a gunman opened fire at the campaign headquarters of Zena Stephens.
An estimated 30 Black students were squired away from a Donald Trump rally in Valdosta, Georgia by Secret Service agents who said the Republican presidential candidate had requested the removal before he began speaking, reports USA Today.
CHICAGO (AP) — There have been about twice as many homicides and shootings so far this year in Chicago as compared to the same period in 2015, but the number of illegal guns seized has dropped, police said Tuesday. There were 95 homicides and more than 400 shooting incidents as of the end of February, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner has renewed a grant to fund the student newspaper at the Chicago high school he attended. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Hefner made the commitment to Steinmetz College Prep last week. He will continue to donate $7,500 a year for another 5 years to cover printing costs. […]
