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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say a North Carolina woman has been arrested for wearing a thong at Myrtle Beach. Police say 22-year-old Tiara Garness, of High Point, N.C., was warned twice to cover up around 5 a.m. Friday on Ocean Boulevard. Authorities say when Garness refused, she was arrested and charged with misdemeanor […]
DETROIT (AP) – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan urged Detroit’s pastors and majority black population Friday to join him in an effort to buy neglected properties and take other steps to help revitalize the struggling city where the movement started more than 80 years ago. The fiery orator offered few specifics in a speech […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Research in teens adds fresh evidence that the 1980s “crack baby” scare was overblown, finding little proof of any major long-term ill effects in children whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy. Some studies have linked pregnant women’s cocaine use with children’s behavior difficulties, attention problems, anxiety and worse school performance. But the […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations from Maricopa […]
One of the proudest moments of Melvin Cox’s (pictured right) life would have been to see his daughter graduate with honors from the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta.…
Philadelphia police are looking for a 21-year-old man who fired into a local strip club after getting into an argument with club management, WPVI-TV/DT Philadelphia…
“Education is our right! That is why we have to fight!” Those were the chants started by 9-year-old Asean Johnson of Chicago who was…
Gabrielle Molina, 12, hanged herself in her Queens, New York home after being viciously cyber-bullied by her middle school classmates, reports the New York Post.…
Welp, let’s file this one under you can’t be serious news! Don West, an attorney for the man accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon…
Chelsea Pearce is the type of girl who’s tragic, yet triumphant life is the thing tear-jerking movies are made of. Spending most of her teen…
Two days after the birthday of iconic human rights leader, El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X), his grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, was buried next to him and…
Shaquioa Chantres Crawford (pictured) of Powder Springs, Ga., was arrested Sunday night after she allegedly stabbed her stepfather multiple times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE…
