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NEW YORK (AP) — Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot and killed by police. The picture revealed a grinning boy wearing a blue cap and gown, his arms wrapped around his mother. It was […]
ATLANTA (AP) – Former WNBA player and Olympic gold medalist Chamique Holdsclaw has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an argument and shooting in November. Fulton County District Attorney’s Spokeswoman Yvette Jones says Holdsclaw appeared in court Thursday for a pre-trial conference. Holdsclaw’s lawyer was given an opportunity to respond to a six-count indictment […]
How bad can it get? A parent took her children to a McDonald’s in a Chicago area and one of them found a condom in their play palace and ate it, so she is suing the restaurant. Anishi Spencer and her sons were eating in the play area, and her two-year-old found a condom and proceeded to eat it, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment aid last week, reducing the average number of weekly applications last month to a five-year low. The drop shows that fewer layoffs are strengthening the job market. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 332,000. That reduced the four-week average to 346,750, […]
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Police and witnesses from phone service providers have testified about cellphones collected as evidence in the case against two Ohio high school football players accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl. Thursday marks the second day of the juvenile court trial in eastern Ohio. The testimony focused on how phones […]
Michael Vick has a message to all his haters: Go pound rocks! Vick is vowing that he will not be bullied by death threats. He’s committed to continue working with community service organizations in spite of the threats. As we reported, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback’s book-signing tour was forced to be canceled because of those […]
NEW YORK (AP) — For a third straight day demonstrators gathered in Brooklyn to protest the New York Police Department after the fatal police shooting of a teenager. More than 100 people attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray just blocks from where he was shot to death by police Saturday […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An Oakland man who spent 14 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl has had his conviction overturned based on new DNA evidence. The Northern California Innocence Project announced Monday that an Alameda County judge and county prosecutors agreed Friday to find 38-year-old Johnny Williams innocent in the […]
TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — Police say a student in suburban Detroit found a backpack at school filled with $20,000 in cash. Taylor Chief of Police Mary Sclabassi tells WDIV-TV the backpack was found Monday at Sixth Grade Academy. Police say the backpack belonged to another student. That student and the student’s parents are being questioned […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis. After announcing “Habemus Papum” — “We have a pope!” — a cardinal standing on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on […]
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Evan Davidson lived with his wife for 51 years. But when he told morticians that the woman in the open casket wasn’t Darlene Davidson, they politely told him he was mistaken. “I looked at her and said, ‘Well this don’t look like my wife at all,'” Davidson, 73, told KABC-TV, “They […]
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A 16-year-old girl was “substantially impaired” after an alcohol-fueled party, was unable to consent to sex and suffered humiliation and degradation when she was raped by two high school football players, a prosecutor said Wednesday in his opening statement at the boys’ trial. But a lawyer for defendant Trent Mays said […]
