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VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Vicksburg mayoral candidate Linda Fondren says she’s proud of her long list of accomplishments: building businesses from a gym to storage facilities and housing with her husband, volunteering for nonprofits, leading an ambitious local weight-loss program, raising a family, and traveling the world after a childhood in poverty. But as the […]
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others were dropped Tuesday against an Elvis impersonator from Mississippi who has said since his arrest last week that he had nothing to do with the case. Meanwhile, in Tupelo, numerous law enforcement officers, including some in hazmat suits, converged on […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 […]
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Police arrested three men and sought a fourth Tuesday after two Virginia State University freshmen were swept away while trying to cross a swift, rain-swollen river as part of an initiation rite. The body of one freshman, identified as Marvell Edmonson, 19, of Portsmouth, was recovered Monday. The search continued Tuesday […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in a backyard about four blocks from President Barack Obama‘s Chicago home, police said Tuesday. Cornelius German of Chicago was found unresponsive around 9:40 p.m. Monday. He had been shot in the back and was pronounced dead at the scene on the city’s South Side, […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has violated international human rights obligations by failing to protect people who have been forced to leave the impromptu settlements that sprang up in the Caribbean nation after the 2010 earthquake, a global advocacy group said Tuesday. A report by Amnesty International said it found that thousands of displaced people […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider whose clinic was called a “house of horrors,” apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence from prosecutors that the three babies were viable, born alive and then killed. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, still faces the death […]
Ginger Howard is a 17-year-old golf superstar who needs to be on your radar! Move over Tiger Woods! There’s another brown face on the golf course and this time, it’s a woman! Ginger is truly a Black girl who ROCKS! She has won 78 trophies, including 1st place at 41 out of 66 events. Obviously Ginger has made […]
Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson (D-North Las Vegas) decided to come out of the closet during a legislative debate Monday over a measure to repeal the state’s gay marriage ban. “I’m black. I’m gay,” he said, according to the Las Vegas Sun in a “trembling” voice. “I know this is the first time many of […]
According to WDSU News, crews from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisherie (LDWF) and the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) are still searching for missing teacher Terrilynn Monette. The LDWF is using sonar equipment to search all nearby waterways,while the NOPD investigators are using specialized equipment to search wooded areas. Monette disappeared after a […]
Ashley Nicole Richards, 22, and her boyfriend Brent Justice, 51, are getting off easy some say. The duo are accused of creating and distributing “animal crush videos” which showed them torturing and dismembering animals. Despite, having committed the terrible acts, a judge dismissed five of seven federal counts against them and cited the free speech […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Democrat Charles Rangel on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn a 2010 House decision to censure him for financial wrongdoing. The suit contends that staff and members of the House Ethics Committee that conducted the probe against the Harlem lawmaker willfully suppressed evidence of misconduct in […]
