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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Across three NBA championships and more than 100 playoff victories together, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have built a bond most teammates will never share. So maybe Ginobili could ignore it when he was suddenly being criticized around San Antonio. You better believe it bothered the others. “Yeah, of […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Danielle Powell was going through a hard time in the spring of 2011, just months away from graduating from a conservative Christian college in Nebraska. She had fallen in love with another woman, a strictly forbidden relationship at a school where even prolonged hugs were banned. Powell said she was working […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville police were searching Friday night for a man they said shot his girlfriend and her three teenage daughters at an apartment complex and then fled the scene barefoot. Police said in a news release that 39-year-old Earnest Woodley, who also goes by Earnest Moore, is wanted in the shooting of […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend’s pet chimpanzee in 2009 was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million on her claim that officials knew the animal was dangerous but didn’t do anything about it. The state claims commissioner released a five-page decision approving the state’s motion to […]
DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) — One worker was killed and seven others were injured Friday night in an explosion at a south Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where a blast the previous day led to the deaths of two workers, authorities said. Louisiana State Police Trooper Jared Sandifer said seven people were injured, some severely, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago, which plans to close dozens of schools this summer to save money, has received 11,000 requests for help getting children to their new schools along safe-passage routes. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday that 600 adults will be hired next month to work along the routes, which are being […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela‘s health has improved, his grandson said Saturday as the 94-year-old spent his eighth day in the hospital recovering from a lung infection. Mandla Mandela said that when he left his grandfather in Pretoria, before heading to Qunu for a family memorial, “we saw the improvement in […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A defense attorney in George Zimmerman‘s murder trial said at the end of the first week of jury selection that he thinks a jury could be seated by the middle of next week. After five days of the selection process, 29 potential jurors have passed through an initial round of questioning […]
Focus on the details, and the cases seem very different. One was killed by virulent white racists, the other by a part-Hispanic neighborhood watchman who insists he faced a vicious attack. One was weighted down and dumped in a river; in the other case, police were called by the shooter himself. Six decades and myriad […]
Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who — in keeping with the gender double standard in this patriarchal society — tend to dodge the stigma of early parenthood. […]
Video performer Pebbelz Da Model, real name Natasha Stewart, was arrested in January in connection to a homicide in Mississippi. Pebbelz, known for videos and photos featuring her 48-inch backside, was wanted for questioning in the death of a Mississippi woman Karima Gordon who had her buttocks injected with concrete. Today Stewart appeared in court […]
Never let your grandmother drink and drive would be a good piece of advice to give a designated driver…if he’s not 10-years-old. Police officers in Kenner, Louisiana pulled over a vehicle traveling recklessly down I-10 westbound, only to discover that a 10-year-old boy was behind the wheel, along with his grandmother Brenda Byrd, 54 (left), […]
