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Reggie Wade, 39, and his bride, Monique McMillan-Wade, 29, tied the knot at their dead uncle’s funeral. The couple held the wedding at the funeral because they wanted to honor their slain relative Gregory “Chops” Scott. Scott was shot and killed on February 27. He was planning on walking the bride down the aisle before […]
Roman Thomas III, a Miami pimp, who goes by the name of the “Suave” is facing charges after forcing a 13-year-old runaway prostitute to tattoo his name on her eyelids and forcing her into prostitution. Thomas, 26, forced the young girl who goes by the name of “Sparkle” to tattoo “suave” on one eyelid and […]
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — The mother of a middle school student who was being suspended has been arrested after deputies say she walked into the school and slapped the wrong child. Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies say 36-year-old Tyshekka Collier went to Fairforest Middle School Wednesday morning to pick up her son. Principal Ty Dawkins called […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help. “I don’t want your answers, I want to take my own test,” Juwanna told her teacher, according to Fulton […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns. The decision was announced Friday evening, hours after the Associated Press published a story about the flag, which officials […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police chased a former lawmaker on a freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles and arrested him at gunpoint following a struggle, hours after he became the first person ever expelled from the Nevada Legislature. Steven Brooks was jailed in California’s San Bernardino County after being subdued with punches and a […]
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A city official charged with interfering with the police investigation of a baby’s slaying in coastal Georgia made a mistake when he tried to help a teen suspect’s mother but believes he committed no crimes, his defense attorney said Friday. The arrest of Brunswick city commissioner James Henry Brooks added another […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is raising concern with civil rights leaders. State Historic Sites Director Keith Hardison says the flag raised last week inside the House chamber is part of a historical display replicating how […]
MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama was promoting a plan to create jobs by attracting private investment in highways and other public works during a visit Friday to a Miami port. The president chose to flesh out details of his proposals in a speech at the port, which is undergoing $2 billion in upgrades paid […]
First Lady Michelle Obama invited the family of slain teenager Hadiya Pendleton to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and her 10-year-old son Nathaniel Pendleton were invited to the famous event which happens on April 1. 15-year-old Hadiya was shot and killed on January 25, 2013 […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is making “steady progress” while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said. The office of President Jacob Zuma released a statement in which it said the former president and anti-apartheid leader was in good spirits after being taken […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and “get squishy” on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers’ background checks. “Shame on us if we’ve […]
