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SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — In less than 10 minutes after his mother dropped him off at school on the morning of Oct. 21, 2013, seventh-grader Jose Reyes and a popular middle school teacher lay on the school yard, dead from gunshot wounds. Two classmates were wounded and a school was in panic. After seventh months […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The judge overseeing the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday ordered the double-amputee athlete to undergo psychiatric tests, meaning that the trial proceedings will be delayed. The decision by Judge Thokozile Masipa followed a request for a psychiatric evaluation by the chief prosecutor, Gerrie Nel. The prosecutor had said […]
SOMA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers desperately raced against time to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground Wednesday after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey killed at least 205 workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were […]
Judge Joe Brown is moving away from his TV days to his political days. Brown is running for district attorney general in Memphis’ Shelby County, Tenn. His show was cancelled last year, which frees him up to run for elected office. Brown was a criminal court judge for 10 years in Memphis and now, he’s planning […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson says Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has badly outdated views about minorities and is shockingly ignorant about HIV and AIDS for such a prominent public figure. “He’s living in the stone ages,” Johnson said in an interview that aired Tuesday with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, […]
There’s a growing racial gap between students and their teachers. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education…
Two young black boys were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Jermane Clark, a North Carolina A&T State University football player, last week. Greensboro natives, Kendrick Robinson, 22, and Lemiah Sanders Jr., 20, were charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. WXII2 reports: Clark, 22, was found shot just after […]
There’s an expectation that any federal judicial nominee President Barack Obama seeks to place on the bench would get opposition from Congressional Republicans, but lately…
Cynthia Brim (pictured), a Cook County, Ill., judge, who was deemed “mentally unfit” last year by the Illinois Courts Commission (ICC) after demonstrating a series…
A St. Augustine, Florida woman has been arrested for having her neighbor’s mobile home demolished. When asked why, arrest reports say that Ana Maria Moreta Folch believed she thought its occupants were “unsavory” and she suspected that they had broken into her car. Folch apparently told a heavy equipment operator that she owned the trailer and […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former “American Idol” singer Clay Aiken praised the North Carolina entrepreneur who died as he trailed him in a too-close-to-call Democratic primary for a Congressional seat, saying Keith Crisco never forgot his humble beginnings. Crisco, 71, died Monday after an accidental fall at his home in Asheboro, about 65 miles west […]
So Thamsanqa Jantjie was crazy after all?! Folks were definitely wondering if he was crazy after Nelson Mandela‘s memorial sing language incident — where he was actually not signing, but making false movements. After the incident, Jantjie was quietly put in a mental institution. He explained what happened to him the day of Mandela’s memorial […]
