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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown after Republican divisions forced GOP leaders to drop efforts to ram their own version through the House. Pressured by the calendar, financial markets and public opinion polls, Senate Majority Leader Harry […]
According to a TMZ report, NFL running back Adrian Peterson fathered a fourth child, a 3-month-old girl. The mother is said to be a waitress at a popular Minnesota nightclub. Sources say the child’s last name on her birth certificate is listed as “Peterson.” On the day Peterson’s 2-year-old son, Tyrese, passed away, the mother […]
Radio host D.L. Hughley showed his audience a different side recently as he talked about the tragic story of Minnesota Viking player, Adrian Peterson, and the loss of his son. Hughley talks candidly about his own infidelity, having a child out-of-wedlock and the sad ending that brought him to tears. Check out the full conversation […]
DETROIT (AP) — A power outage interrupted Game 3 of the American League championship series for 17 minutes. The lights high atop Comerica Park went out and the videoboards were dark between the top and bottom of the second inning, delaying the Boston Red Sox-Detroit Tigers game. The Tigers were coming up to bat for […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police said Tuesday they don’t believe two dry ice explosions this week in restricted areas at Los Angeles International Airport were an act of terror, and they’re pursuing the theory that the blasts were the work of a disgruntled employee. The bombs were made by putting dry ice in 20-ounce plastic […]
The stock market was whipsawed Tuesday as the on-again, off-again talk of a debt deal in Washington made investors wonder just how pessimistic they should be. Stocks were flat or down all day, but the size of the losses waxed and waned depending on which politician was giving a press conference. The market closed with […]
Benjamin Crump, the attorney best known as the Trayvon Martin family lawyer, is taking the perplexing case of Kendrick Johnson. Maybe now Johnson’s family will get some answers. “This is a real-life murder mystery where these parents sent their child to school with a book bag and he was returned to them in a body […]
The family of Leon Ford Jr. has been seeking justice after police cornered the teen on a dark Pittsburgh street after a routine traffic stop…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery involving three women. The felony count alleged false imprisonment “by violence, fraud, menace and deceit” but did not elaborate on the circumstances. The victims […]
The Senate Chaplain, whose job is to deliver a prayer when Senate convenes each day, is bringing Congress to its knees in more ways than one since the government shutdown two weeks ago. “Deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable,” Chaplain Barry Black appealed in one of his recent […]
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Two girls were arrested in a Florida bullying case after one of them admitted online over the weekend that she harassed a 12-year-old girl who killed herself last month, a sheriff said Tuesday. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said they arrested a 14-year-old girl because they were worried she would […]
This past week has most likely been one of the toughest time periods in NFL star Adrian Peterson’s life. So, we are quite certain he…
