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As a Christian, a parent, a wife, and an entrepreneur, the thought of traveling to our nation’s capitol to be arrested on purpose had never crossed my mind. When provided the opportunity to do just that as a way to bring attention to the need for action against climate change – at the Forward on […]
A homeless Kansas City man who returned an engagement ring a woman accidentally dropped in to his cup last Friday is reaping the benefits of the mantra “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” For Sarah Darling and husband Bill Krejci, simply thanking Billy Ray Harris (pictured) for holding on to their ring wasn’t enough. Nor […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was granted bail Friday, paving the way for him to be freed from custody pending his trial in the Valentine’s Day shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair made the ruling Friday after four days of arguments from prosecution and defense in Pistorius’ bail […]
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts say a 10-year-old boy called 911 because he didn’t want to go to bed. Brockton police say the boy made the emergency call just after 8 p.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was calling to report his mother because he did not want to go to bed. […]
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man once dubbed by prosecutors as the government’s most wanted deadbeat parent pleaded guilty Thursday to owing more than $1.2 million to three children from two failed marriages. Robert Sand, 50, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Central Islip on Long Island to two counts of […]
Jersey City Assemblyman Charles Mainor is getting some serious backlash over his FaceBook “like” pages: “Big Booty Freaks” and “You Got Knocked the F**k Out,” a page that features vicious fights caught on an amateur camera. At first Mainor tried to deny ever liking the pages saying, “I doubt very strongly that I would do […]
Atlanta megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long is facing a lawsuit from former parishioners who say he encouraged them to invest in a company that was operating an alleged Ponzi scheme. A dozen former members of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., filed suit in DeKalb County court in late January. The suit says […]
According to reports, at least three people are dead and three are injured after a shooting and major accident occurred this morning on the Las Vegas strip. The shooting and accident occurred this morning at around 4:20 a.m. near Flamingo rd. Police are saying the shooting erupted between two cars which lead to the multi-car […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield has been arrested on a federal bribery charge based on allegations he sought a $10,000 payment for a city contract. The 39-year-old Democrat was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Jackson on Thursday afternoon. The criminal complaint in the case […]
Today jurors are heading into their third day of deliberations in the Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial. On Wednesday, the jury spent 13 hours deliberating over the charges against Kwame Kirkpatrick, Bobby Ferguson and Bernard Kilpatrick to no avail. According to the Detroit Free Press, the jurors asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds for clarification over […]
One Brooklyn man is using the justice system to get back at his parents. 32-year-old Bernard Anderson Bey is suing his parents because he thinks he was not loved enough as a child and that he didn’t receive enough attention from them growing up. The New York Post is reporting that Bey is asking for […]
GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff’s deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home. Hood County sheriff’s Lt. Kathy Jividen says the 48-year-old woman was “very intoxicated” when she requested the special delivery on Feb. […]
