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NEW YORK (AP) — PepsiCo Inc. officials will meet Wednesday with members of Emmett Till‘s family and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton continued to press for the meeting last week after the company’s partnerships with Lil Wayne and Tyler, the Creator, of Odd Future to promote Mountain Dew sparked controversies. PepsiCo and Lil Wayne have […]
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Houston man who admitted opening fire on his daughter outside a Southeast Texas courthouse was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting a 79-year-old bystander. Bartholomew Granger, 42, was convicted last week of capital murder in the slaying of Minnie Ray Sebolt. The same jurors who found him guilty deliberated […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their 1993 peak, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress’ battle over whether to tighten restrictions on firearms. A study released Tuesday by the government’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 […]
I don’t even know what to make of this. The Zombies Industries company was asked to remove their Obama-esque target by the National Rifle…
It’s starting to feel like parents are walking their child to school and leaving them in that hands of the biggest sexual predators the state…
The Democratic National Committee has said that NBA veteran Jason Collins will headline its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender gala on May 29. Jason…
An 8-year-old boy who suffers from a condition that causes him to lose hair was kicked out of his elementary school for breaking one of…
Regina Turner of St. Louis is suing SSM Health Care-St. Louis, for allegedly operating on the wrong side of her skull and brain, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Turner went in to St. Clare Health Center on April 4th to receive a left-sided craniotomy bypass. Instead, she received a craniotomy for the right side of her brain, […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by sea or by trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic. But a newly popular route has caught officials in the Caribbean by […]
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It’s early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson’s class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering the class of 11 girls and four boys with questions, trying to keep everyone focused as she helps correct mistakes. When a student gets one of the […]
Orb wasn’t the only one to score big in the first stop in the Triple Crown. NBC Sports drew the most viewers for a Kentucky Derby in 21 years during Sunday’s race, which featured two rarities for the sport: a black jockey and a woman jockey. Goldencents, owned in part by Rick Pitino, coach of […]
MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James was at his best this season, and the voters tasked with selecting the NBA’s Most Valuable Player took notice. Every voter except one, that is. The NBA still does not have a unanimous MVP, though no one has come closer than James did this season. The Miami Heat star was […]
