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Ryan Broyles may have secured his financial future with a four-year $3.6 million contract in 2012, but nowadays you can catch him living off much less with $60,000 a year between him and his wife. https://instagram.com/p/uT5lzGOINa/?taken-by=ryanbroyles While the annual amount may raise some eyebrows, USA Today notes that for Broyles, it’s […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A police officer fired after fatally shooting an unarmed black college football player during a suspected burglary at a Texas car dealership could face criminal charges or civil lawsuits by the man’s family members. Former officer Brad Miller’s attorney has criticized the firing as political, after the police chief said […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky will not immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her lawyer says, despite a federal judge ordering her to do so Wednesday in a case that seeks to reconcile the country’s new marriage law and its protections of religious freedom. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge who dismissed a state effort to keep six children in foster care two years before they were found dead in their Houston home said Wednesday that he was never told the kids were in any “immediate physical danger.” Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin took the unusual step Wednesday of commenting […]
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas inmate Daniel Lee Lopez got his wish Wednesday when he was executed for striking and killing a police lieutenant with an SUV during a chase more than six years ago. The lethal injection was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from his attorneys, who disregarded Lopez’s desire […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter, who at age 90 still travels the world supporting the humanitarian endeavors that have consumed his time in the decades since he left office, announced Wednesday he has cancer that has spread to other parts of his body. “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now […]
Back in June, BET awarded Tom Joyner with the 2015 Humanitarian Award for his contributions to HBCUs across the country and the thousands of students he has impacted through The Tom Joyner Foundation. It looks like during his moving speech, The Hardest Working Man in Radio inspired Tyrese and now the R&B crooner has not only […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A man charged in the deaths of a couple and six children at a Houston home has professed love for one of the victims — his son — and says he thought the children were “growing up to be monsters.” David Conley was being held without bond Wednesday on capital murder counts. […]
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Police say a 22-year-old woman accused of shoplifting arrived in style at a mall in southeastern Minnesota. Authorities say a limousine driver who took the woman to the Apache Mall in Rochester on Monday helped police to find her. Lt. Jim Evenson tells the Post-Bulletin that the woman stole about $300 […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An ex-convict charged with fatally shooting a Memphis police officer during a struggle has told a judge he is indigent. Twenty-nine-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn is being held on $10 million bond on a first-degree murder charge in the Aug. 1 death of Officer Sean Bolton. He did not enter a plea during […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City hospitals will no longer allow the filming of reality TV in their wards without prior written consent. According to the New York Post, the Greater New York Hospital Association said in a statement that the ban “effectively puts an end to ‘reality TV’ in New York’s emergency rooms.” […]
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — A second man is in custody for allegedly making off with a bag containing $150,000 in cash that was mistakenly left behind by ATM workers in New Jersey. Police say 35-year-old Jamar Bludson and another man took the money that had been forgotten outside a Mahwah business on July 27. Officers […]
