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CINCINNATI (AP) — The mother of Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer says she is mentally prepared to handle whatever verdict or sentence is handed down to the shooter, even an exoneration. Sybrina Fulton made the statement to reporters Wednesday after she and husband Tracy Martin tearfully addressed a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is creating a new office to bolster education of African-American students. The White House says the office will coordinate the work of communities and federal agencies to ensure that African-American youngsters are better prepared for high school, college and career. Obama is announcing his election-year initiative Wednesday night in […]
Less then a week after the Aurora Movie Theater shootings, a survivor of the "massacre" has filed the first lawsuit from the event. Torrence Brown Jr. of Colorado, filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming extreme trauma after being in the theater while James Holmes, 24, killed twelve and seriously injured dozens more last Friday during the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sylvia Woods, the founder of the famed Harlem soul food restaurant that bears her name, was remembered Tuesday by famous patrons, neighborhood locals and friends as a warm and welcoming trailblazer who turned her small eatery into a bustling city gem. "When people came to see me from all over America […]
Two 15-year-old teens have been caught on tape bullying 10-year-old, Cequan Haskins, on a school bus. According to Roxanne Haskins, her son was a victim of extreme bullying and did not deserve it. She said in an interview about the incident, “He was entitled to a safe transportation just like any other child in the […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman accused of performing illegal buttocks-enhancing procedures faces a third-degree murder charge more than a year after a tourist from London died from a silicone injection by a woman who calls herself the "Black Madam," police said Tuesday. Padge Windslowe was arrested Monday night on charges connected to the February 2011 […]
James Holmes doesn’t look like he’s all there. There’s the Crayola orange hair. The dazed look. The seeming inability to adapt his brilliance in the classroom to the world outside of it; a world of dating, friends and one with no clear rules. Yet it’ll be awhile before anyone will really know whether it was […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The man convicted in the shooting deaths of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew is scheduled to return to court. William Balfour's attorneys are expected to ask the judge to grant Balfour a new trial at a hearing scheduled for Tuesday. If that request is denied, Judge Charles Burns […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona sheriff known nationally for his hardline stance on illegal immigration has taken the witness stand and is facing allegations that his trademark immigration sweeps amounted to racial profiling against Hispanics. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, testifying on his own behalf in a civil trial Tuesday, was asked about a statement […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday that are some of the broadest and strictest ever required of a law-enforcement agency. The agreement between the Justice Department and the city — in the form of a federal consent decree […]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — His hair dyed orange-red and a dazed look on his face, the man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at the opening of the new Batman movie appeared Monday in court for the first time. An unshaven, handcuffed James Holmes, 24, sat in maroon jailhouse jumpsuit as the judge […]
Despite being accused of having inappropriate sexual relationships with multiple young men, Bishop Eddie Long and his flock of worshipers are moving full speed ahead with their Spirit & Truth Conference. One of Long’s victims isn’t too pleased about it and is doing what he can to stop it. Eddie Long’s former victim Centino Kemp […]
