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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police sought as many as three people and were investigating whether the shooting was drug-related, school and police officials said. All three teenagers were shot outside Brashear High School as they walked to a vehicle […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia teenager is accused of posting nonpublic information about a 2012 shooting on his Twitter feed. The information wound up on an Instagram account that is also facing scrutiny for divulging information about crime witnesses. A police spokeswoman said Wednesday the 17-year-old was taken into custody and charged with witness intimidation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With his penchant for poetry, Todd Christensen never fit the Raiders’ renegade mold. But that didn’t keep him from becoming one of the team’s best all-time tight ends. A five-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl winner, Christensen died from complications during liver transplant surgery Wednesday. He was 57. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government started the first month of the 2014 budget year with a $91.6 billion deficit, signaling further improvement in the nation’s finances at a time when lawmakers are wrestling to reach a deal that would keep the government open past January. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the deficit in […]
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday that they are reviewing possible charges against a suburban Detroit homeowner in the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman on his porch earlier this month after police provided additional material they had requested. Earlier this week, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said it had begun a warrant […]
The controversy surrounding Miami Dolphin Richie Incognito‘s alleged racist remarks and bullying to teammate Jonathan Martin is still going strong. Is it apart of the…
PHOENIX (AP) — Police said Wednesday they believe a woman, her teenage daughter and the woman’s brother were the three people shot to death by the woman’s estranged husband at a north Phoenix house. Michael Sanders, 53, killed himself at the end of Tuesday’s rampage after apparently dragging his wife’s body into the home’s backyard […]
Diane Harris (pictured), a former beverage supervisor at the Detroit Greektown casino, just hit the jackpot in a HUGE way, but she didn’t gamble and win. Rather, she filed…
The family of Malcolm X has launched a lawsuit to stop the publication of a diary of the late civil-rights leader’s last year, reports The Guardian. “The Diary of Malcolm X,” a reproduction of a private diary kept as he travelled to the Middle East and Africa immediately before his assassination, is due to be […]
Instagram is not only the place for an abundance of selfies, thirst traps and boasting, apparently there’s a whole other dark side to the social…
Rev. Teddy Parker, Jr., 42 (pictured above), senior pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, committed suicide in front of his home while…
The Guardian columnist Orville Lloyd Douglas reveals in his latest piece that he hates being a Black man and that his skin color is his “personal…
