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MIAMI (AP) — The mayor of Miami-Dade County has apologized to an 82-year-old woman who was kicked off a Metrorail train for singing. The Miami Herald reports Emma Anderson was singing religious hymns and making noise on the train Feb. 20 when she ignored a warning from a security guard to quiet down. A cell […]
Indiana woman Natisha Hillard, 24, allegedly sold her 18-month-old daughter to a man for the purpose of making child pornography, reports the Huffington Post. Christopher Bour, 39, was charged with “buying a child to produce child pornography, producing child pornography and possessing child pornography featuring a minor younger than 12.” Investigators were alerted to their unspeakable violation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s spokesman says the White House is concerned by war threats coming from North Korea. North Korean state media said Monday that Pyongyang was cancelling the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War. White House press secretary Jay Carney responded that Pyongyang will achieve nothing with threats. But he said […]
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders. Jurors convicted Kilpatrick of a raft of crimes, including a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was portrayed during a five-month trial as an unscrupulous politician who took […]
WARREN, Ohio (AP) — A speeding sport utility vehicle taken without permission and carrying eight teenagers crashed into a guardrail Sunday morning and flipped over into a swampy pond in northeast Ohio, killing five boys and the young woman driving, the state highway patrol said. The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernard Hopkins has another belt around his waist and a slice of boxing history to his name. He just might not have another bout. The oldest boxer to win a major title, the 48-year-old Hopkins said he could retire a champion if he’s no longer inspired and the right bout doesn’t materialize. […]
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont newspaper defended itself Saturday against accusations of racism over a poster it published in support of a local sports team that read “fry Rice” in type associated with Chinese calligraphy, saying it meant no offense and simply wanted to play on words. The back-page poster, printed in Thursday’s editions, […]
DETROIT (AP) — In basketball and in business, Dave Bing never side-stepped a challenge. But the overwhelming weight of Detroit’s financial problems and other troubles faced by the former manufacturing hub have convinced the former NBA great, steel supply company founder and first-term mayor that he may have to pass control of the city over […]
COOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force. Coopertown Police Chief Shane Sullivan took over the department in November, becoming the 11th chief in as many years. He was hired on the heels of a […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia school parents, students and staff are coming to grips with the impending closure of 23 public schools. University City High School Principal Timothy Stults said Friday his students are grieving the loss of their school, which will close in June. A day earlier, officials voted to shutter about 10 percent of […]
A 28-year-old Oklahoma woman was caught with drugs and a firearm in all of the wrong places. The Smoking Gun reports that Christie Dawn Harris was arrested on Monday, after Ada police officers spotted her and another woman, Jennifer Delancy, inside of a vehicle outside of a closed restaurant. Cops noticed that “both seats were laid all the way back.” When […]
Clifford Smith (pictured) is facing charges of simple assault and vandalism after he reportedly choked a wheelchair-bound woman for eating the last piece of chicken at a dinner gathering, reports WAFB 9. According to a police report, Smith, 44, and some other people sat down for dinner on Sunday evening. When there was only one piece of chicken left, […]
