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The parents of a School 16 Troy, New York, elementary school student are alleging that their son’s teacher forced him to lick his desk after…
Kristie (pictured left) and Kirstie Bronner (pictured) are identical twins with identical grade point averages, so why shouldn’t they share the honor of being Spelman College‘s…
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones. Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn this week unanimously rejected his family’s request to inscribe his gravestone with a song verse that included profanity. […]
According to the Chicago Tribune, Jesse Jackson Jr. is facing a new legal problem over not filing a “financial disclosure report.” Members of Congress who leave their seat are required to file the report, if not, individuals could be fined up to $50,000. Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced on July 1.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the words of commentator Bomani Jones, “call [Charles Ramsey] what you want, but call him what he is, too”; a hero. Ramsey, who is responsible for freeing Amanda Berry and two other women who were being held captive at his neighbor’s home, joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper to re-tell the events of that heroic evening […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to call for the release of a Korean-American man detained in the North. Rodman met with Kim and watched an exhibition game together when he visited Pyongyang in February. In a tweet on Wednesday, […]
