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Another young black man’s life was cut short this weekend when he was fatally shot at a North Oak Cliff Shell station on early Sunday morning. According to a Dallas police report, two people had an argument around 1:40 a.m. at the gas station, located in the 400 block of S. R.L. Thornton Freeway, near […]
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman was sentenced Tuesday to 85 years in prison in the dehydration death of her 10-year-old stepson whom she denied of water for days during record-high temperatures. Tina Marie Alberson, 44, was convicted Friday of injury to a child, a second-degree felony, in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. The appeals court panel Tuesday turned away the bid from a medical marijuana group, Americans for Safe Access. Last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a petition by […]
Does anything like a sense of shame exist in the sports department of USA Today? Apparently not. And apparently some people just can’t help but live down to your expectations of them. Now I knew when Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis announced that this season would be his last go round in the National Football […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After killing his parents and three younger siblings at home, 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego reloaded an assault rifle and a .22-caliber rifle and planned to go somewhere “populated” and randomly shoot more people until he could be killed in a shootout with law enforcement, authorities said. The teen also sent a picture […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Tuesday with workshops, prayers and calls for more legislation chipping away at the abortion rights the U.S. Supreme Court decision seemed to guarantee. Many looked to Kansas, where Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures […]
Anna Burns Welker, the wife of Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker decided to use Facebook as a tool to bash Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis after the Ravens big win over the Patriots on Sunday night. Burns Welker wrote on her Facebook page, “Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s limousine carried the District of Columbia’s “Taxation Without Representation” license plate, a subtle, but some say important, protest over the city’s lack of a voting member in Congress. The White House said Tuesday that Obama has lived in D.C. for four years and has seen firsthand “how patently unfair […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. hailed the inauguration of the nation’s first black president to a new term as one of the achievements made possible by the civil rights struggle her father helped lead decades ago. Bernice King spoke at an Atlanta service Monday on the federal […]
Detroit Bishop Wayne T. Jackson says a YouTube video of his ordination ceremony is being smeared by fellow members of the cloth for being sexually…
A Louisiana man is wishing he purchased a mask before he burglarized his former employer wearing a bucket on his head. The video shows Richard Boudreaux, 23, wearing army camouflage gear, while he stole money from a cash register while holding a huge bucket on his head. Reportedly, the man attempted to rob his former […]
A 26-year-old man allegedly stole $2,000 on his first day of work at the popular doughnut chain Dunkin’ Donuts. According to reports, the store’s owner noticed that $2,136 dollars was missing from the register after he stepped away from the register to create a name tag for a new employee named Tyrone D. Harris. After […]
