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The NYPD officers who shot and killed 16-year-old Kimani Gray will not face criminal charges, reports the Daily News. RELATED: Principal Of Slain Brooklyn Teen Pens…
Violet Palmer made her biggest call yet: The NBA referee will marry her partner of 20 years on Friday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Palmer says she came out to her fellow NBA referees in 2007. She has not tried to keep her sexuality a secret from the league since that time. “This […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A demoted worker shot and critically injured his company’s CEO before fatally shooting himself Thursday inside a downtown Chicago high-rise office building in the city’s bustling financial district, police said. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said a worker at a technological company entered the 17th-floor office and met with his CEO before pulling […]
The number of women being locked up has exploded, but kids may be the hardest hit. “Orange Is The New Black” takes a gritty, intriguing…
Tinder is looking to make a few coins from its users this year, but it might not cost daters a thing just yet. InterActiveCorp (IAC) announced…
Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum believe that her college has better days ahead as she enters her final year there. After 13 years running…
CINCINNATI — Alumni of the country’s oldest historically black private university are committing money and other support to help their alma mater’s fight for survival amid the risk of accreditation loss and financial deficits and low enrollment. The alumni association of southwestern Ohio’s Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, says graduates have committed to raise $2 […]
This new generation of kids have taken their idea of “fun” to an entirely different level. Instead of Red Light, Green Light or Dodge ball, some teens have wandered into the dangerous realm of playing an online game where they set themselves on fire. The New York Daily News reports: A Kentucky boy who lit […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A doctor and nurses went to the aid of a 2-month-old baby girl after a Florida mom left the infant in a hot minivan outside a pediatrician’s office for about an hour, authorities say. The woman, who wasn’t identified, faces a felony charge of child neglect, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office […]
The police have captured five men in connection to an Atlantic City casino heist in which $181,000 was stolen. The Chicago Tribune reports: Police have recovered much of the stolen cash, along with clothes used in the robbery, the New Jersey State Police said in a statement. Authorities said two masked men entered Caesars Atlantic […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small plane crashed in a San Diego shopping center parking lot Wednesday, killing an 80-year-old woman who was the lone passenger and injuring the pilot, authorities said. The single-engine 1988 Mooney M-20L went down around 5:30 p.m. in a parking lot that serves a Costco and a Target store in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a stunt aimed at tossing political red meat to conservative voters. Just a day before lawmakers […]
