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Tavares Colbert, a 36-year-old Oklahoma City native was jailed after he told police he shot himself in the genitals by accident. According to reports, the police were called at 9 a.m. Saturday to the emergency room at a local hospital, where officers found Colbert bleeding. Colbert told police he found the gun in Kansas and […]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — As the suspected gunman in the Colorado theater massacre heads to his first court appearance, authorities have disclosed that he is refusing to cooperate and that it could take months to learn what prompted the horrific attack on midnight moviegoers at a Batman film premiere. James Holmes has been held in […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago City Council committee has signed off on settlements in two lawsuits filed by men who allege they were victims of police torture during the tenure of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. The settlements totaling $7.17 million still need the full City Council's approval. More than $5 million would go […]
A sobering new study finds that at least one black person dies nearly every day at the hands of law enforcement, a security guard or some other level of “self-appointed vigilante” here in the U.S. The use and concept of deadly force against blacks is now such standard practice among many of those otherwise designated […]
Africa finally gets to bat in the Little League Baseball World Series. For the first time in the series’ 66-year history, a team from Africa will vie for the championship when the summer classic begins next month in Williamsport, Pa. The Lugazi Little League from, Lugazi, Uganda, qualified for the series by defeating a team […]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The entire U.S. government seems to be lined up against Westchester County these days. The county just north of New York City, home to actors, ballplayers, Clintons and Kennedys, is mired in a housing dispute that encompasses race, taxes, zoning and other sensitive suburban issues. The Justice Department, the Department […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The women assaulted by their Air Force training instructor don't sleep much these days and when they do, he sometimes haunts their dreams. They testified Saturday about being suddenly unable to relate to husbands, boyfriends and even fathers and brothers after they were sexually assaulted. One said her fear during a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama's White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 people in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katherine Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson and the guardian of his three minor children, has been reported missing, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says she is with family members. Paris Jackson, the 14-year-old daughter of the late legend, tweeted early Sunday morning that her grandmother was missing: "I […]
Vastie Coleman allegedly confessed to whipping her 4-year-old son, Kyron Barnes, to death on Sunday night in Houston because he wet himself, KHOU-TV reports. Coleman, 27, who has so far been charged with injury to a child, is being held without bond at the Harris County Jail. Prosecutors have not said whether they will upgrade […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sylvia Woods, founder of the famed Harlem soul food restaurant that carries her name and is a must-stop for locals, tourists and politicians, has died. She was 86. Woods died Thursday afternoon at her home in Mount Vernon, N.Y., said her granddaughter Tren'ness Woods-Black. She had been dealing with Alzheimer's disease […]
New York police posted officers at dozens of theaters around the city, while ticket-takers at a multiplex in Washington searched moviegoers' bags and purses. Security was stepped up at places around the U.S. during showings of the new Batman movie Friday after the massacre in Colorado. And while some people said they were afraid to […]
