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Good grief. Is this a case of like father, like son? TMZ is reporting the son of NFL legend Lawrence Taylor has been arrested for rape in Georgia. Lawrence Taylor Jr. was arrested on July 7 on 3 counts — statutory rape aggravated child molestation, and statutory aggravated sodomy, according to the Cobb County Sheriff’s […]
Reddit posted a video today of what appears to be an illegal search of a guy’s car. But what the police didn’t know was they…
Wait…WHAT the WHAT? According to Dead Spin, last Sunday an amateur soccer match in Brazil came to a horrific end when a referee was…
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman‘s best friends and a former co-worker took the witness stand Monday at his second-degree murder trial to testify that it’s Zimmerman’s voice screaming for help on a 911 call and not that of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The three friends joined a series of witnesses called by the defense who […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) – There will be a gay contestant at this year’s Miss South Carolina pageant. Miss Lyman Analouisa Valencia says she decided to come out before the pageant so she could be more comfortable with herself. She didn’t openly share her sexuality last year when she competed as Miss Electric City. The 19-year-old […]
PITTSBURGH (AP)—A woman fired from a Pittsburgh-area spa has sued, saying she was wrongly fired after she refused to let another employee perform a hair-removing wax procedure on her during training. Jennifer Finley, of Wexford, has sued the European Wax Center in Ross Township, just north of Pittsburgh. Finley contends she understood that part of […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Last offseason, the Houston Rockets were an afterthought, a young team with little star power. Now, after trading for James Harden just before this past season and adding Dwight Howard on Friday, Houston is suddenly primed to contend sooner than almost anybody expected. Still, Houston general manager Daryl Morey knows nabbing Howard […]
CHICAGO (AP)—Shootings in Chicago during the Fourth of July holiday weekend have left at least nine people dead and several dozen wounded, including two young boys shot in different parks. Gov. Pat Quinn said Sunday that such continued violence underscores why he dramatically altered a gun bill that will end Illinois’ last-in-the nation ban on […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities on Friday arrested a New York man charged with trying to extort money from embattled celebrity cook Paula Deen in exchange for not going to the news media with “true and damning statements” he said she made. FBI agents and local sheriff’s deputies arrested Thomas George Paculis, 62, of Newfield, N.Y., […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers are sending a message of confidence in the economy — hiring more workers, raising pay and making the job market appear strong enough for the Federal Reserve to slow its bond purchases as early as September. The economy gained a robust 195,000 jobs in June and many more in April […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety as flames tore through the plane. In addition to the two deaths […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Friday at the end of the second week of testimony in George Zimmerman‘s second-degree murder trial. Defense attorneys now have their chance next week to call witnesses and introduce testimony. They called their first two witnesses late Friday. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder. He […]
