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NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens is buying rival Rite Aid for about $9.41 billion in cash, creating a drugstore giant with nearly 18,000 stores around the world. The deal combines the largest and third-largest U.S. drugstore chains, based on store counts. And it makes one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical buyers even bigger at a […]
Though there is no shame in her game, age does have a way of catching up with you at the darnedest times. I’m trying to read the mind of Doris Payne, the 85-year-old African American self-proclaimed international jewel thief and subject of the 2013 documentary, The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne. She was just arrested […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here are the latest developments in the confrontation between a South Carolina deputy and a student recorded on cellphone video (all times local): 12:10 p.m. A student who was in a math class when another female student was dragged out of her chair by an officer says that she was arrested […]
A woman from Katy, Texas has lost her internship after she sent a racially-offensive tweet along with pictures of herself and a friend picking cotton in a cotton field. Erika Escalante sent the a pictures over the weekend with the caption: “Our inner n**ger came out today.” The company was alerted to Escalante’s offensive tweet […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers stood in the shadows of blue ribbons tied to fences and trees as they waited Tuesday to pay tribute to a policeman slain on patrol — a man remembered for his love of family and pride in his job. Officer Randolph Holder always wanted to be a policeman, […]
Corey Jones' final moments may have been recorded, revealing clues about the night he was shot by a Florida police officer after his car broke down on the side of the road.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A rural Kentucky school district canceled classes for a second straight day Tuesday as authorities searched for a fugitive accused of shooting at law officers in two states. Cumberland County schools Superintendent Kirk Biggerstaff said he doesn’t want students waiting for buses in sparsely-populated areas while Floyd Ray Cook is still […]
Based on a viral video of Deputy Officer Ben Fields assaulting a Black female high school student, a local sheriff has requested that the SC FBI and the US Justice department intervene for an independent investigation.
College homecomings and encouraging studies about African-Americans graduating from high school being more likely to attend college than other races, was overshadowed recently by more school shootings and other violence on or near the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. According to a Nielsen study on the changing profile of Black consumers, 70.9 percent […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A massive earthquake struck remote and impoverished regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 263 people as it shook buildings across South Asia and knocked out power and communications to already-isolated areas. The 7.5-magnitude quake was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan’s sparsely populated […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A self-styled pimp who flashed $100 bills at a casino valet minutes before a fatal vehicle chase was found guilty Monday of killing three people by shooting into a moving car and triggering a fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip. Ammar Asim Faruq Harris sat still and gave no reaction […]
PARIS (AP) — Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire: The World Health Organization threw its global weight behind years of experts’ warnings and declared Monday that processed meats raise the risk of colon and stomach cancer and that red meat is probably harmful, too. Meat producers are angry, vegetarians are feeling vindicated, […]
