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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Lifetime TV network says it dropped a reality show about a Texas mortuary after eight decaying bodies were found at the facility and the co-owners were charged with corpse abuse. Lifetime announced in June it would produce a show called “Good Grief” about the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort […]
Now this isn’t news you hear everyday… Johnny Lee Banks Jr is claiming he went to Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, AL for a routine circumcision and his penis was cut off instead. The Metro reports: The lawsuit, which Banks filed with his wife Zelda, says that the man was never provided with an […]
DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A doctor told police that a patient fatally shot a caseworker at their hospital complex before the doctor pulled out his own gun and exchanged fire with him and wounded him, a prosecutor said Thursday night. Dr. Lee Silverman, a psychiatrist, was grazed in the temple during the gunfight in his […]
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met privately Thursday with a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, blessing the woman as she cradled her infant daughter born just weeks ago in prison. The Vatican characterized the visit with Meriam Ibrahim, 27, her husband and their two […]
DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who killed an unarmed woman on his porch immediately suggested to police it was an accident and that he didn’t know his shotgun was loaded, according to recorded remarks played in court Thursday. Theodore Wafer, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, met officers outside his Dearborn Heights home […]
Vine user Rashid Polo has a very popular channel. Everything from laugh out loud clips to the clever and original ideas he squeezes into 10 seconds is intriguing. But it’s his videos of him catching white employees following him around any store he visits, quite impressive. His take? They think he’s going to steal something. […]
Looks like there is a new football classic for HBCU fans! Alabama State University and Houston’s Texas Southern University will team up for the inaugural game of the Prince Hall Masons Americanism Football Classic. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Alabama and ASU announced their excitement around the two-year deal in a press conference. The two […]
Jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are projected to grow by 17 percent by 2018, compared to 9.8 percent for jobs in other fields,…
Unfortunately, there’s bad news for Marissa Alexander. A Florida judge has denied Marissa Alexander a new self-defense hearing, finding that the recent addition of a “warning shot” provision to the state’s so-called Stand Your Ground law could not be applied retroactively, according to a report from Salon: The law allows a person to fire without […]
SEATTLE (AP) — An analysis of the first six months of Seattle police enforcement under new marijuana laws finds homeless people and African-American males are more likely to be ticketed for public pot use than anyone else. Officers issued 82 tickets for public possession and use between Jan. 1 and June 30, according to the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — An overflow crowd packed a church and sang songs on Wednesday at the funeral of a man who died in police custody after an officer placed him in an apparent chokehold. Eric Garner’s relatives stopped in front of his open casket, some weeping and wailing. A preacher opened the service at […]
Author Omar Yamini joined “NewsOne Now” guest host Mo Ivory to talk about his new book, “What’s Wrong With You!” Yamini detailed how a series of…
