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Apparently throwing a tantrum at the tender age of eight can get you almost thrown in jail. St. Louis’ KMOV reports an elementary school student Jmyha Rickman, 8, was handcuffed by her wrists and feet and was taken tot he police station after throwing a tantrum in school. School officials at Lovejoy Elementary School called […]
CHICAGO — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room. That’s according to a “mortality index” developed by San Francisco researchers for people older than 50. The test scores may satisfy […]
An NYPD cop allegedly punched his 3-year-old son in the face after “recklessly drinking,” The New York Daily News reports. Jason Sharp, a 10-year veteran of the New York Police Department, has been suspended for 30 days and charged with third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The toddler was “hospitalized with swelling and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion imprisoned a century ago for his romantic relationships with white women, renewed their efforts on Tuesday. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., John McCain, R-Ariz., and William “Mo” Cowan, D-Mass., joined Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., to reintroduce a resolution […]
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for the Florida man accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin said Tuesday that he won’t need the two weeks a judge previously set aside for an immunity hearing under the state’s controversial self-defense law, though the issue could be folded into the trial this summer. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi congressman on Tuesday asked the FBI to review the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate to determine if any federal laws might have been violated. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson‘s district includes Clarksdale, where Marco McMillian was running. McMillian, 34, was found slain last week in a rural area […]
You may have the chance to nab yourself an elk head, an expensive gold-plated Rolex or some exclusive Michael Jackson fedoras if these items which were purchased by Jesse Jackson Jr. with campaign funds is sent to the auction block. Other possible items that may be auctioned off include a flat screen TV, some furniture, […]
Popular Newark Mayor Cory Booker told reporters this week that he has earned around $1 million dollars from various speaking engagement he has done around the country. He says he only does speaking engagements for mostly non-profit groups and educational programs. According to the New York Post, Booker has donated most of the money to […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes. “It’s common sense,” said Pat O’Brien, who stood at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Durango, […]
Call it the stadium that got its name by way of the new Jim Crow. Scores of football players, many of them black, will be making money for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., by catching passes, making tackles, and scrambling into the end zone. And from the looks of things, those FAU Owls […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers seeking a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion imprisoned a century ago for his romantic relationships with white women, renewed their efforts on Tuesday. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., John McCain, R-Ariz., and William “Mo” Cowan, D-Mass., joined Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., to reintroduce a resolution […]
OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scrawls of racially offensive graffiti and, more recently, a report of someone wearing what looked like a Ku Klux Klan-type hooded robe on campus have shaken students at historically liberal Oberlin College, one of the nation’s first universities to admit blacks. A day after the school canceled classes and students marched […]
