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Grambling State University‘s football players are taking a stand. According to various reports, GSU players walked out of a Tuesday meeting with university President Frank Pogue, interim head coach George Ragsdale, athletics director Aaron James, and student government President Jordan Harvey. The meeting was set to discuss the firing of Doug Williams and the use […]
“Extra’s” AJ Calloway started out at BET as the co-host of “106 and Park” then landed a gig as a correspondent on the entertainment show “Extra.” But before he achieved those successes in show business, he set a foundation for himself at Howard University. The 39-year-old TV personality wanted to pay tribute to the school […]
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma wide receiver Trey Metoyer has been charged with two counts of indecent exposure and has left the football team. Charges were filed Tuesday against Metoyer, 20, in Cleveland County. Coach Bob Stoops says Metoyer has not been with the 18th-ranked Sooners since before its game against TCU on Oct. 5. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman described by lawmakers and aides as a long-time House stenographer has been removed from the chamber during a vote after she began shouting. The woman was yelling from the rostrum Wednesday just below where the House presiding officer sits. The microphone she was yelling into was off. Lawmakers said she […]
A North Carolina barbershop owner and a friend are facing federal charges over 800 pounds of marijuana. WSOC TV reports: Federal documents about the undercover sting were unsealed this week. Drug enforcement agents said they received a tip that 800 pounds of marijuana seized in El Paso, Texas were headed to Charlotte in September, according […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker won a special election Wednesday to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, giving the rising Democratic star a bigger political stage after a race against conservative Steve Lonegan, a former small-town mayor. With three-quarters of precincts reporting, Booker had almost 56 percent of the vote to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up against a deadline, Congress raced to pass legislation Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown in the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk. The Senate passed the measure on a bipartisan margin of 81-18 at midevening. […]
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall says he has been fined $10,500 by the NFL for wearing green football shoes in the Oct. 10 game against the New York Giants. Marshall had said before last Thursday’s game he was wearing the shoes to attract attention to Mental Health Awareness Week. […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man who shot and wounded two Memphis police officers and then barricaded himself in a home that later was engulfed in flames had refused to negotiate with officers, authorities say. The Commercial Appeal reports that police say Aaron Dumas — wanted on attempted murder charges — opened fire when officers […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two members of a notorious family that authorities say once tried to set up a whites-only nation in America were arrested this week in Arizona on federal firearms charges after a raid on a sprawling ranch netted dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Kirby Kehoe and his 37-year-old […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The city of Council Bluffs will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit with two Omaha, Neb., men who sued after the courts concluded they were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 25 years for the shooting death of a retired police captain. Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee will be paid […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out his indictment on bribery charges, saying the case has been tainted by prosecutorial misconduct. The alleged misconduct includes anonymous online posts about Nagin by a former federal prosecutor, said Nagin’s lawyer, Robert Jenkins. The former mayor pleaded […]
