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Three days after burying her 13-year-old son, Dinyal New‘s grief intensified when her 19-year-old son was gunned down just blocks from their home, reports ABC…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NFL star defensive back Darren Sharper has been arrested on suspicion of rape, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Sharper, who played 14 seasons in the NFL with Green Bay, Minnesota and New Orleans, was arrested and booked Friday and released on $200,000 bail just before midnight. He faces a […]

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DETROIT (AP) — Correctly predicting the outcome of every game in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is no layup. There’s now a $1 billion prize waiting for anyone able to pull off the feat this spring. Quicken Loans Inc. announced Tuesday that it will team with investor Warren Buffett‘s Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway on the […]

01/22/14-  Roland Martin talks with attorney Chris Chestnut, the lawyer representing the family of Jonathan Ferrell, about a grand jury’s controversial decision to not indict Randall Kerrick on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Kerrick is responsible for the death of Ferrell after he shot the former FAMU football player 10 times. For iPhone users:

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On Martin Luther King Day, an African American GOP candidate for the Florida House of Representatives called for President Barack Obama to be hanged for treason, reports Mediaite.com. On a Twitter feed already full of calls for Obama’s impeachment and accusations that he doesn’t care for military service members, candidate Joshua Black quoted a previous […]

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TORONTO (AP) — A new video of Mayor Rob Ford emerged Tuesday that shows him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. In the video — one of two new ones that have been posted on YouTube — Ford is shown in a fast food restaurant rambling and talking […]

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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona State University fraternity’s operations have been suspended following accusations that the local Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter hosted a distasteful party in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, replete with racist stereotypes and offensive costumes. “We regard the behavior exhibited as completely outrageous, extraordinarily offensive and wholly unacceptable,” said James […]

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MUST LISTEN: Roland Martin talks with Chris Chestnut, the attorney representing Jonathan Ferrell’s family, about the grand jury’s decision to not indict Randall Kerrick. CHARLOTTE (AP)- A grand jury has declined to indict a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer on a voluntary manslaughter charge in the shooting death of a former Florida A&M football player. Randall Kerrick […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Victims of childhood sexual abuse by priests vowed to keep pushing for more information on how allegations were handled by the Archdiocese of Chicago and other Catholic orders, and are encouraging other victims to come forward. More than 6,000 pages of internal church documents posted online Tuesday by attorneys showed how officials […]

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SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — A 14-year-old black boy executed nearly 70 years ago in South Carolina is finally getting another day in court, but the judge and a prosecutor aren’t sure whether it is fair to judge what happened in a segregationist-era courtroom by modern standards. George Stinney was found guilty in 1944 of killing […]

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie sought to turn back the clock as he was sworn into a second term Tuesday, saying voters gave him a mandate in November to “stay the course” and put aside partisan differences, even as Democrats ramped up an investigation into whether his administration abused its power. Christie, considered […]

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DALLAS (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday began deliberating the intoxication manslaughter case against former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent, who is accused of drunkenly crashing his car during a night out and killing his passenger, who was a close friend and teammate. The jury got the case after lawyers delivered their closing arguments to a […]