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One of the problems of being an Internet era hero is that when you come up from out of nowhere and get people’s attention, somebody is gonna wonder just who you are and what your story is. Such is the case with Charles Ramsey. It seems the folks over at The Smoking Gun – whose […]
Celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne is facing heat for telling Amanda Berry‘s late mother nearly 10 years ago that her daughter was dead. Browne told Louwana Miller, Berry’s mom, on “The Montel Williams Show” when asked about Berry’s well-being, “she’s not alive, honey.” In Brown’s defense, she did tell Miller, “after 50 years of doing this […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Making history, America’s blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data show. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996. Blacks were the only race or ethnic group […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The jury has found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. Arias initially denied involvement and later blamed the killing on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said she killed Travis Alexander in self-defense. After a four-month trial that included graphic details […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A panel of three judges has decided that the vast majority of the $1 million reward offered in the manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner will go to a couple he tied up in their Southern California mountain cabin. The Los Angeles Police Department posted a document on its website Tuesday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton says a meeting he held with PepsiCo Inc. officials and members of Emmett Till‘s family was “positive.” Sharpton says in a statement PepsiCo officials apologized to the Till family at the Wednesday morning meeting at company headquarters in Purchase. PepsiCo and Lil Wayne ended their commercial relationship […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teen accused of punching a soccer referee who later died was charged Wednesday with homicide by assault, a count issued when an attack unintentionally causes death. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced the charges, saying he will seek to try the teen as an adult. A […]
I swear criminals in Florida are cut from a different cloth. In the recent past, either the suspect has committed a heinous act and has…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Florida boy has died after shooting himself with a gun he found in his uncle’s backpack. The shooting happened Tuesday night in a bedroom Jadarrius Speights shared with his uncle at an apartment complex in Tampa. Authorities say the uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey D. Walker, has been charged […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Amanda Berry, who was held captive for about a decade before being rescued from a house along with two other women, arrived at her sister’s home Wednesday morning to the cheers of hundreds of neighbors and swarms of journalists. Berry’s sister, Beth Serrano, spoke briefly to the crowd after their arrival, thanking […]
DENVER (AP) — The trial of the former grad student charged in the deadly Colorado movie theater shootings will likely be delayed weeks or months because he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. James Holmes‘ attorneys filed the court papers Tuesday. The judge handling the case will hear arguments […]
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening’s scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of the 1992 slayings of two college students. Willie Jerome Manning had been set to die by injection shortly after 6 p.m. CDT at the state prison in Parchman. The court said the execution should be […]
