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BOSTON (AP) — Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent victims with pride over the city’s resilience in the face of a terror attack. “This day will always be hard, but this place will always […]
WASHINGTON-High rates of obesity, high blood pressure and inadequate prenatal care cause death from childbirth more often for African-Americans in the United States than for whites and other ethnic groups. Worsening this trend are the increasing numbers of cesarean sections nationally. These procedures can result in deadly complications for women dangerously overweight or suffering from […]
Titus Ziegler, of Atlanta, Ga., is the winner of the Tom Joyner Foundation® “Full Ride Scholarship” that will cover full tuition, room and board (on-campus only) and books up to 10 semesters. Tom Joyner, the Foundation’s chairman and founder, announced his scholarship today during the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” which airs in markets across the […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been chosen to deliver the commencement address at his old stomping grounds, Howard University. The HBCU in the Nation’s Capital announced Tuesday that Diddy will also be among five people to receive honorary degrees as trailblazers in their fields. The Bad Boy founder, a student at the school in the late […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama used the unique power of the nation’s highest office Tuesday to correct a typo. The error was made in a report used to sentence convicted drug dealer Ceasar Cantu of Katy, Texas, and resulted in 3 1/2 extra years being added to his prison term. Obama took the extraordinary […]
Atlanta police are searching for a missing teenager last seen in southwest Atlanta. CBS46 reports: Janese Carthon, 14, was reported missing by her family, according to Office John Chafee with Atlanta police. Carthon was last seen Saturday around 8 a.m. near McDaniel Street SW and Roy Street SW. Police say Carthon has a diminished mental […]
Some high school students are skipping lunch period to pack in something else — another academic class. Reports show: “Most often these students want to take an additional honors or AP course, or an elective like a foreign language, band or choir,” Jim Szczepaniak, a community relations director at Niles Township High Schools District 219 […]
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Police in the Netherlands have arrested a 14-year-old girl on suspicion of threatening American Airlines in a tweet. Police spokesman Roland Ekkers said the girl, who has not been identified for privacy reasons, turned herself in to Rotterdam police in the company of a parent Monday and is now being interrogated. The […]
Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts is the cover girl for this month’s “Good Housekeeping” magazine. Inside, she opens up about some of the reactions after coming out as gay, and revealing the identity of her longtime girlfriend Amber. Roberts said she was overjoyed by many of the responses, but there was also some criticism […]
A 46 year old man is appealing a judge’s orders to spend six months behind bars for noisy sex. In Italy, loud sexual screams and moans are defined as “stalking”, especially if a dozen of your neighbors complain about it. The neighbors took issue with, “screams and moans” that “disturbed the peace in the condominium and […]
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – An Ohio man who spent hours on a street corner Sunday with a sign declaring he’s a bully says that the…
This is something to celebrate! The class of 2018 at Harvard University has already broken records. The ivy league school has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 11.9% are black, the highest ever for the university. The journal estimates that nearly 170 black students will […]
