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I’m almost certain that Tonya Battle would have been perfectly fine with not having to look after another newborn on her shift. What she wasn’t fine with, though, was the racism that went along with that relief. Last October Battle, a black nurse working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Hurley Medical Center in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. entered a guilty plea Wednesday in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Both the former Illinois congressman and his wife, Sandra, had agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors. […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A southwest Ohio woman who says she was fired because she voted for President Barack Obama filed a lawsuit against her former employer. Patricia Kunkle’s lawsuit accuses Dayton-based defense contractor Q-Mark Inc. and its president of telling employees that if Obama was re-elected, then his supporters would be the first to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is launching a three-state tour to promote her anti-childhood obesity program, “Let’s Move.” Mrs. Obama will make stops next week in Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri. The tour is tied to the third anniversary of the “Let’s Move” program. The White House says the first lady will highlight the […]
According to TMZ, gruesome photos of Christopher Dorner’s charred dismembered body are being shopped by an unnamed source. TMZ said they declined purchasing the photos, but say that the images show Dorner’s body missing limbs including his arm and a leg. Not to mention, the gossip site reports that the top of Dorner’s head was […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach pizza shop owner is showing his support for firearm rights by giving gun owners a 15 percent discount. The discount is given to anyone who brings a gun or concealed handgun permit to All Around Pizzas and Deli. Owner Jay Laze tells news media outlets that he’d […]
40-year-old Detroit Consortium basketball coach Al Anderson died on February 16 of a heart attack just hours after his team’s big win. Anderson reportedly collapsed after a team dinner that occurred after the game and was pronounced dead at the hospital. In August 2011, Anderson was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and had received a […]
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The execution of a Georgia man who killed a fellow prisoner in 1990 was halted Tuesday at the last minute so courts could consider claims that he’s mentally disabled and other issues. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted its stay of execution as 52-year-old Warren Lee Hill was being […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Firefighters with cadaver dogs were searching early Wednesday through the rubble of a popular restaurant flattened by a natural gas explosion and massive fire that sent black smoke high over Kansas City‘s upscale Country Club Plaza shopping and dining district. Authorities said 14 people were known to have been injured […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked New York City from getting footage gathered by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case. Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis ruled Tuesday that the city had failed to show him a concern […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandra, will appear in federal court Wednesday to answer criminal charges in an alleged scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Both have agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors. Jackson is charged with conspiracy and his wife […]
There are many men who complain about the burden of child support, which can extend well into the child’s adulthood if the man has gotten behind in payments. But there are few fathers who continue to pay child support when the child in question has died. That is the problem facing Kentucky’s Lional Campbell. According […]
