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DETROIT (AP) — Three men will stand trial in the carjacking of prominent Detroit pastor and gospel music icon Marvin Winans. The Wayne County prosecutor's office say all three men were bound over Tuesday to Wayne County Circuit Court on carjacking, conspiracy to carjack, unarmed robbery and conspiracy to commit unarmed robbery charges. Each was […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge in Chicago says he'll decide next month on the request for a new trial for the man convicted of killing three members of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's family. Judge Charles Burns on Friday set a July 24 date to rule on the request from William Balfour's attorneys. Cook County prosecutors […]
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A day after hearing graphic details of alleged sexual encounters between former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and a then-teenage boy, the jury in his high-profile child sex-abuse case is expected to hear from another accuser. Testimony was resuming Tuesday morning, and the accuser identified in a scathing grand […]
When my maternal grandfather died, a stream of men came to pay their respects to my grandmother and mother. The men cried as if they had lost their own father, and in a way they had. My grandfather was a barber: keeper of secrets, dispenser of advice and a great listener to creative storytellers. He […]
It may very well wind up being the worse decision since Plessy versus Ferguson. The Supreme Court handed down that infamous ruling back in 1896, when it opined there was nothing wrong with segregated bathrooms, train cars, water fountains and schools – as long those colored bathrooms, train cars, water fountains, and schools were equal […]
MIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack alongside a busy South Florida highway is in good spirits, talking and walking with the help of hospital staff, doctors said Tuesday. Ronald Poppo's left eye was removed, but doctors are trying to find a way to restore vision […]
Proclaiming it the face of modern day racial profiling, the Rev. Al Sharpton is slated to lead a Father’s Day march through Harlem calling further attention to statistics revealing more black and Latino men have been restrained based on the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” policies than there are members of that overall population throughout […]
Two football players who had dreamed of being part of Auburn University’s winning tradition were slain Saturday night along with an Auburn resident in a shooting that has stunned a college town usually sleepy in the summer. Police and U.S. Marshals continue to search for the 22-year-old Desmonte Leonard suspected of killing three people and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Year after year it's a sure bet that the comforting graduation mainstay "Pomp and Circumstance" is drowned out on occasion by airhorns, cowbells or the sheer lung power of proud friends and family. What appears to have changed is stiffer retribution for those in the crowd who don't want to save […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010, the fifth straight year of declines. The FBI also said Monday that the number of reported property crimes went down 0.8 percent, the ninth straight year-to-year decline. The bureau says murder and […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 75-year-old Milwaukee man was ordered to stand trial and pleaded not guilty Monday in the fatal shooting of his 13-year-old neighbor. John Henry Spooner, who is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the May 31 killing of Darius Simmons, waived his right for a preliminary hearing. The white-haired Spooner, wearing black-rimmed […]
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit's mayor warned Monday that the city could go broke if its top lawyer refuses to drop her lawsuit challenging a deal with Michigan officials that seeks to rescue the city from financial collapse. The most recent clash between Mayor Dave Bing and the city's Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon underscores how precarious […]
