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A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the Oct. 2 fatal shooting of Aniya Parker, 47, a transgender woman…
Recently released surveillance footage from Shaw Market in St. Louis shows 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers (pictured above with his mother) buying a sandwich minutes before being…
Adoption is a beautiful thing. There are many people who want to be parents but are not able to conceive a child without help. However,…
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — A popular northern California golf teacher convicted of molesting his students and plotting to kill them from jail was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in state prison. Andrew Nisbet, 32, of Livermore, pleaded guilty to seven felonies including murder solicitation, possessing child pornography and lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A man used an assault rifle to fire at a Chicago subway train as it pulled into a business district station, Chicago Police Superintendent Gerry McCarthy said Thursday. McCarthy said the man was targeting the “L” train, not passengers, and had at least 50 bullets with him. No one was injured in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologized Thursday night and said he was wrong for saying that women don’t need to ask for a raise and should just trust the system to pay them well. Nadella was blasted on Twitter and in blog posts for his comments, which were made earlier Thursday at […]
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for risking their lives to fight for children’s rights. The decision made Malala, a 17-year-old student and education activist, the youngest-ever Nobel winner. The news set off celebrations on the streets of Mingora, the main […]
A pastor in Alabama has come clean that he had AIDS and slept with members of his church without revealing his condition. A report from WSFA-TV details that the church’s pastor, Juan McFarland, made the confession recently to members of at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was removed as pastor of the […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gay couples began getting married Thursday in Las Vegas — the self-proclaimed marriage capital of the world — ending a dizzying legal fight that had kept them waiting for days. Thomas Topovski cried as the Clark County clerk announced to cheers that marriage licenses would finally be issued. He and Jefferson […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two months after a Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown, setting off intense national debate about law enforcement treatment of minorities, the shooting death of another black 18-year-old by police in nearby St. Louis has reignited anger among activists already planning weekend protests. Police say Vonderrit D. Myers was shot Wednesday after […]
Atlantic City, New Jersey was once a glittering hotspot that attracted partygoers and fast life folks from the East Coast and beyond. But several casino closings, including that of the highly touted Revel casino, a billion-dollar luxury property that was just closed and sold for pennies on the dollar (and is now infamous for the […]
UPDATE: According to the Black and Missing Foundation, Janiah Simpson has been found! 12 year old Janiah Simpson, of East Flatbush (#Brooklyn, #NY) was last seen on Sept. 28 leaving Wingate Park in Brooklyn. She is believed to be with a man in his 30s who approached her while she was playing with friends on the […]
