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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New York Giants defensive tackle Shaun Rogers had a pair of diamond earrings and gold jewelry stolen from his Miami Beach hotel room. Miami Beach police are looking for a woman accused of taking over $400,000 worth of jewelry from a safe inside Rogers’ room at the Fontainebleau Hotel. A […]
DETROIT (AP) — Several businesses have pledged a total of $8 million to help cash-strapped Detroit pay for a new fleet of emergency vehicles, including 23 EMS units and 100 police cars, to boost public safety and reduce response times, Mayor Dave Bing announced Monday. Racing team owner Roger Penske, who leads Penske Automotive Group […]
A married Minnesota teacher could face up to 10 years in jail for paying a student $120 to delete cellphone footage of him fondling her breasts, police reported. Terina Ann Parr, 44, is also accused of kissing and “inappropriately touching” the unnamed 17-year-old when they were alone at Fertile-Beltrami High School. Parr denies the charges […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase — repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor — is at the crux of a civil rights challenge to the New York Police Department’s contentions tactic known as stop, question and frisk. “So, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe winning doesn’t take care of everything. Nike is causing a social media storm with its latest online ad showing a picture of Tiger Woods overlaid with a quote from him, “Winning takes care of everything.” Woods has used the phrase with reporters since at least 2009 when they ask him […]
Detroit’s new emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, hasn’t been the most popular figure of the city since his appointment to take over the finances. The Rev. Jesse Jackson decided to join the fight in kicking him out because he says the appointment by the state is unconstitutional because it totally dismisses local control. The state appointed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspect’s property to look for evidence without first getting a warrant for a search, a decision which may limit how investigators use dogs’ sensitive noses to search out drugs, explosives and other items hidden from human sight, sound […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia law will require all voters to have photo IDs beginning next year. Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill Tuesday that his fellow Republicans said was a safeguard against voter fraud. Democrats bitterly denounced the legislation as a Jim Crow-era tactic to suppress the votes of the elderly, minorities and the underprivileged. […]
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — The Meridian Public School District has agreed to watch out for racial disparities in student discipline and the U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to dismiss complaints about a “school-to-prison pipeline.” Superintendent Alvin Taylor told The Meridian Star that his administration had already made at least half the changes requested by […]
PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Pedro Quezada‘s neighbors see a lot of themselves in the winner of the $338 million Powerball jackpot: hardworking, a family man, an immigrant, and someone who has known hard times. That’s why they’re so thrilled that one of their own has finally struck it rich. Quezada, 44, entered Eagle Liquors store, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a new case from Michigan on the politically charged issue of affirmative action offers an intriguing hint that the justices will not use a separate challenge already pending from Texas for a broad ruling bringing an end to the consideration of race in college admissions. To […]
Robert Zimmerman Jr., the brother of Trayvon Martin‘s killer, George Zimmerman, recently compared the slain teenager to De’Marquise Elkins. 17-year-old Elkins was one of two teens who allegedly shot an 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in his stroller as the toddler and his mother walked home from the post office in Georgia on March 21. The side-by-side […]
