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DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch immediately suggested to police it was an accident and that he didn’t know his shotgun was loaded, according to recorded remarks played in court Thursday. Theodore Wafer, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, met officers outside his Dearborn Heights home […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people vanished Thursday in a rainstorm over restive northern Mali, and French officials say it has probably crashed — the third major international aviation disaster in a week. French fighter jets, U.N. peacekeepers and others hunted for signs of wreckage of the MD-83 plane in […]
Vine user Rashid Polo has a very popular channel. Everything from laugh out loud clips to the clever and original ideas he squeezes into 10 seconds is intriguing. But it’s his videos of him catching white employees following him around any store he visits, quite impressive. His take? They think he’s going to steal something. […]
Looks like there is a new football classic for HBCU fans! Alabama State University and Houston’s Texas Southern University will team up for the inaugural game of the Prince Hall Masons Americanism Football Classic. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Alabama and ASU announced their excitement around the two-year deal in a press conference. The two […]
The immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues. On Tuesday Gov. Rick Perry activated up to 1,000 National Guard troops to aid in border security. “NewsOne…
Jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are projected to grow by 17 percent by 2018, compared to 9.8 percent for jobs in other fields,…
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the hottest tickets in town — to Broadway hits, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake concerts, a New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game — were snapped up by an international ring of cyber thieves who commandeered more than 1,000 StubHub users’ accounts to make big money by fraudulently buying tickets and […]
Unfortunately, there’s bad news for Marissa Alexander. A Florida judge has denied Marissa Alexander a new self-defense hearing, finding that the recent addition of a “warning shot” provision to the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law could not be applied retroactively, according to a report from Salon: The law allows a person to fire without […]
SEATTLE (AP) — An analysis of the first six months of Seattle police enforcement under new marijuana laws finds homeless people and African-American males are more likely to be ticketed for public pot use than anyone else. Officers issued 82 tickets for public possession and use between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to the […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A condemned murderer took nearly two hours to die and gasped for about 90 minutes during an execution in Arizona that quickly rekindled the national debate on capital punishment in the U.S. The execution of 55-year-old Joseph Rudolph Wood took so long that his lawyers had time to file an emergency appeal […]
NEW YORK (AP) — An overflow crowd packed a church and sang songs on Wednesday at the funeral of a man who died in police custody after an officer placed him in an apparent chokehold. Eric Garner’s relatives stopped in front of his open casket, some weeping and wailing. A preacher opened the service at […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden urged the NAACP on Wednesday to spread the word about what he called “a hailstorm” of measures to restrict citizens’ ability to vote, trying to rally the Democratic Party’s base before the midterm elections. In a 31-minute speech to the civil rights group’s annual convention in Las […]
