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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl is in critical condition after doctors removed from her stomach 104 cocaine-filled capsules her father made her swallow to smuggle drugs to Europe, police said Wednesday. Officers are hunting for the girl’s father, who was seen on closed circuit television rushing Monday into an emergency room in Cali […]
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Attorneys offered contrasting interpretations of the Pledge of Allegiance during oral arguments Wednesday in a New Jersey family’s lawsuit claiming a school district is discriminating against their child’s atheist beliefs. The lawsuit focuses on the words “under God” that were added to the Pledge in 1954 and that have survived legal […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge refused on Tuesday to quash on technicalities two criminal felony indictments for abuse of power against Gov. Rick Perry, ruling that the potentially embarrassing case against the possible 2016 presidential hopeful should proceed. The governor’s defense team had sought to have the matter thrown out, arguing that the […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City police officer will stand trial on dozens of charges alleging he sexually assaulted 13 women while on duty, the judge’s order coming exactly five months after the first complaint was reported to police. During the two-day preliminary hearing, prosecutors filed an additional four sex assault charges against Daniel […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday named 16 people to the new Ferguson Commission, an independent panel tasked with helping the St. Louis County suburb of Ferguson heal after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Here is a look at the commission and its members: WHO ARE THEY?: More […]
In “We were rooting for you news,” Shanesha Taylor, the woman who made her way into our lives after being arrested for leaving her two young children in the car as she went for a job interview, is now facing jail time again. Taylor previously faced jail time after being charged with felony abuse for […]
Bradley Holt (pictured), a caring hero, is now, unfortunately, a dead one. The 24-year-old Miami man was shot to death for merely asking a…
(photo credit: We Charge Genocide) Chicago youths representing the activist group We Charge Genocide (pictured above) started a silent protest during the Committee against Torture at…
RNC Chair, Reince Priebus joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss what we should expect from a Republican controlled House and Senate. Priebus…
A homeless couple is facing assault and civil rights charges after they brutally attacked an unidentified black city worker. Both Robert Snyder, 45, and Shayla Witts, 28, reportedly left the victim bruised and bleeding when police got to the scene. According to police, the 29-year-old male employee tried to escort the intoxicated pair out of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation […]
Bishop Charles E, Blake, 74, Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ and senior pastor at West Angeles Church of God in Christ…
Don Alexander, a supporter of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson from Brentwood, Tennessee, raised enough money to place an inflammatory billboard near the town of…
