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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Park Police have cited the operator of a small drone outside the White House with violating a federal law that prohibits flying unmanned aerial vehicles over Washington. The police identified the man as 39-year-old Ryan MacDonald of Vacaville, California. Ryan was detained Thursday afternoon by U.S. Secret Service officers for […]
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alumni of a school named for a slave who later became a South Carolina congressman say the school’s logo is offensive. The school is named after Robert Smalls, a slave who escaped and later captured a Confederate ship during the Civil War. He went on to serve five terms in Congress. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then federal prosecutors released racist and homophobic text messages. Those texts have now turned a small-time police corruption case into a racially charged scandal, thrusting a diverse and liberal city into the national debate […]
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A perjury charge was dropped Friday against the fiancee of former New England Patriots star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez. Shayanna Jenkins had pleaded not guilty to perjury. Prosecutors had said she lied dozens of times to the grand jury that investigated the death of Odin Lloyd, who was dating […]
Ty Simpson from Spectrum Management, LLC presented the Tom Joyner Foundation a check for $50,000, Marc Battle, Vice President of Pepco Region and a 1998 UDC graduate donated $5,000 and the 3rd district of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. donated $2500. Click the link above to hear the entire interview! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the moment the Amtrak train that derailed at a curve this week was supposed to be slowing down, it was accelerating, investigators said Thursday. How that came to happen has emerged as the central question surrounding the derailment, which killed eight people and sent more than 200 to hospitals Tuesday night […]
An early estimate of the damage done in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray — the 25-year-old man who died in police custody in…
The now former TNT Academy principal, Nancy Gordeuk, will have some extra time on her hands. USA Today reports that a letter from Dr. Heidi Anderson, chair of the board of directors at TNT Academy in Stone Mountain, Georgia confirms the school board has voted to rid themselves of Nancy Gordeuk. They issued a statement which read: In […]
Allen Bullock, the 18-year-old who became a symbol of the Baltimore protests after smashing the windshield of a police cruiser with a traffic cone, has…
A pub owner in Florida was arrested last week after making racist comments and pointing a gun at a young Black couple, the Orlando Sentinel reports.…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal jury has cleared six former Philadelphia drug squad officers in a corruption case that prompted scores of convictions to be overturned amid charges that the officers stole more than $400,000 in drug money, beat suspects and lied to win convictions. The verdict on Thursday follows more than a month of […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The death toll from the Amtrak wreck rose to eight with the discovery of another body in a mangled railcar Thursday, while a lawyer for the train’s engineer said his client has no recollection of the crash and wasn’t on his cellphone or using drugs or alcohol. A cadaver dog found the […]
