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WASHINGTON (AP) — The defining moment of a bizarre election season in the nation’s capital wasn’t provided by Mayor Vincent Gray or any of the seven Democrats trying to unseat him in next week’s primary. Instead, it came from the city’s top prosecutor. U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said this month that Gray knew about an […]
As I said earlier in the week, the streets aren’t safe anymore. A DJ in Madison, Wisconsin learned that he had better start taking requests…
A North Louisiana Mayor has been charged with five counts of malfeasance. The Shreveport Times reports: Homer Mayor Alecia Smith was arrested late today on five counts of malfeasance in office. She surrendered to the sheriff’s office, posted a $25,000 bond and was released from custody, confirmed Claiborne Parish Sheriff Ken Bailey. She was arrested […]
An Applebee’s employee in Tennessee was hospitalized and two people were sent to jail – all over a $28 tab, authorities said. Felishia Bridges, 19, and her acquaintance, Daniel Humphrey, 25, were arrested Friday evening after “dining and dashing” at an Applebee’s in Nashville. ABC News Reports: Bridges and Humphrey didn’t pay their bill after […]
JACKSON – A national movement to promote economic development, designed to grow black businesses and change the economic landscape of urban communities will kick off in Jackson, Mississippi on April 1, featuring a keynote speech by Oscar Joyner, entrepreneur and media executive. The Partnership for Economic Development (PED) program will be held from 8:00 a.m. […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A pregnant South Carolina woman accused of driving her car into the ocean with her three children on board will be…
Apparently, we are all dead wrong in the way history views the White supremacist organization the Ku Klux Klan, according to Frank Ancona, imperial wizard of the…
In the March 31 issue of the New Yorker, Kobe Bryant discussed life, race and the inevitable conclusion of his illustrious basketball career with Ben McGrath.…
BOSTON (AP) — Boston residents mourned the deaths of two firefighters who were killed when a fire driven by strong winds whipped through a brownstone and trapped them in the basement in a neighborhood just blocks from where nine city firefighters died in a 1972 hotel collapse. Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama is holding an historic first meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Obama arrived on an overcast morning at the Vatican’s ornate grounds. After a slow procession, he was introduced to Pope Francis and the two shook hands. Obama says at the start of the meeting that it’s […]
03/27/14- Home Depot’s Melissa Brown talks to the crew about the Retool Your School contest, a campus improvement grant program.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers Wednesday approved raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest for any state in the country and the same rate that President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who recently appeared with Obama and several New England governors […]
