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On a pleasant, partly sunny afternoon, an armed security guard stood watch over an apartment building in the Hubbard Farms neighborhood in southwest Detroit. The guard wouldn’t say why he was there. But behind him last Tuesday, scrawled onto the ornate stone facade of the building, the word “rapist” could still be seen, even after […]
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Police officers have written about 850 tickets under the new Rhode Island law that classifies possession of small amounts of marijuana as a civil violation, state officials said. The Providence Journal reports that between April 1, when the law took effect, and the end of July, magistrates levied more than $110,000 […]
In Atlanta, a 15-year-old boy named Anthony Stokes has been given less than six months to live by doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston due to an enlarged heart. The teenager’s only hope at survival is getting his name on the transplant list. But doctors are refusing to put him on the list […]
DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a $9 million bond in the case of a Detroit-area cancer specialist who is accused of intentionally misdiagnosing patients. Judge Sean Cox made the ruling Tuesday, following a hearing in which prosecutors asked him to increase Dr. Farid Fata‘s $170,000 bond to $9 million, based on the […]
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro turned 87 behind closed doors Tuesday, with official tributes in state media serving as a reminder that the clock is ticking on his revolutionary generation’s grip on power. Castro stepped down as president following a near-fatal illness in 2006, and his successor, younger brother Raul, has said that his current […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African police spokesman says Oscar Pistorius will be served with an indictment now that police have completed an investigation into the shooting death of his girlfriend. Spokesman Lt. Gen. Solomon Makgale said Tuesday the investigation team is convinced Pistorius has a charge to answer. Pistorius will appear in a Pretoria […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge’s stinging rebuke of the police department’s stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory could usher in a return to the days of high violent crime rates and end New York’s tenure as “America’s safest big city,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned. The ruling strikes at the heart of the legacy Bloomberg aims […]
A Bronx, N.Y., man filed a lawsuit against the NYPD Thursday, alleging an NYPD cruiser bumped his dirt bike from behind, causing serious injury. SEE…
Huong (pictured), a Miami-based artist, created a mural depicting George Zimmerman shooting slain teen Trayvon Martin, and it made its debut at Florida’s Capitol rotunda…
A Major League Baseball contest last Sunday between the San Francisco Giants and the visiting Baltimore Orioles turned ugly, according to a tweet from one…
A University of Iowa study suggests that African-American women have great odds of obtaining loans from lenders, and their rate of success is comparable to…
A judge in Tennessee has taken it upon herself to change the first name of 7-month-old Messiah DeShawn Martin to “Martin.” And just what prompted the judge to do that you ask? Well, the judge in her infinite wisdom is declaring it’s because “the word Messiah is a title and it’s a title that has […]
