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Adrian Fenty, the ex-mayor of Washington, DC is reportedly dating the wife of the late Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs. Reportedly, Fenty and Jobs met at a Houston education conference in 2011, reports the Huffington Post. He later joined the board for Jobs foundation College Track in 2012. Fenty and his wife, Michelle Cross Fenty, […]
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS (AP) — A Catholic high school in suburban Chicago says it’ll begin randomly testing all students this fall to determine if any of them have been drinking alcohol. St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights says the tests will be done with a hair sample. Officials say that can determine if a student […]
Brian Banks whose football career was thrown off track more than a decade ago by a false accusation of rape has finally played in his first NFL game. Banks tweeted his excitement prior to the game against the Cincinatti Bengals, he wrote: “Game Day. Never thought this day would come. And if it all ended […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is headed back to the White House — just for a day — and Oprah is coming, too. Clinton and Oprah Winfrey will be among 16 people that President Barack Obama will venerate later this year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday. They’ll […]
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man claimed his third of a $448 million Powerball jackpot on Thursday, wasting no time before revealing his good fortune to the world and saying he had “been waiting for this day my entire life.” Paul White, 45, a project engineer from Ham Lake, said his family often gave […]
According to an ongoing poll by Reuters, most Americans stick with people of their own race. The poll shows that 40 percent of Americans and about 25 percent of non-white Americans are friends with people who are the same race of them. The figures highlight how segregated the United States remains in the wake of […]
For 367 days, the people of an East New York City neighborhood lived without any shootings. Woman sat on benches watching their children play. Kids rode their bikes beyond the block they lived on. This peace was a cherished by-product of the work done by an organization called Man Up! inc. That stretch of life […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman ordered a bulletproof vest and an infrared home security device last year while he was out on bond awaiting his murder trial in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to records released Thursday. The records logged by Seminole County police monitoring Zimmerman during his release show that he […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Did a fan of “Shark Week” get carried away? New York City’s transit authority says a conductor found a small dead shark aboard a subway train in Queens on Wednesday. The conductor asked passengers to leave the car and closed it off. The train continued to the end of the line, […]
DALLAS (AP) — A former teacher who once moonlighted as a hip-hop dancer entertaining NBA crowds has been arrested in the fatal shooting of four people in two Dallas-area homes, and police said Thursday he used an explosive device in one of the attacks. Investigators arrested Erbie Bowser, 44, on Wednesday night at the second […]
Speaking to reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Orlando, Florida, Oscar nominated-director Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler), said that it is…
ATLANTA (AP) — A restaurant says it has switched vendors after a customer found a cluster of maggots on his sandwich at Atlanta’s airport. Weekly traveler Joel Woloshuk told WSB-TV Tuesday that he bought a sandwich from Café Intermezzo and realized the white specks on top of it were maggots — not parmesan — when […]
