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Just call it bloody monday. With the 2013 NFL regular season in the books, team owners made assessments of their situations and several coaches were…
NEW YORK (AP) — Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where there is a cycle of violence, silence and retribution and where crime reduction has lagged behind record lows across the city. A burst of gunfire on […]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead to be kept on life support until Jan. 7. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo on Monday ordered Children’s Hospital Oakland to maintain Jahi McMath on a ventilator past a 5 p.m. time set in a previous ruling. The […]
Franklin Jackson (pictured) was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence of a crash Sunday afternoon, after he smashed his SUV into…
A year ago, Eduardo Camargo (pictured) was on one of the toughest missions of his life, but it was a battle he had to win at…
CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California church nativity scene is featuring a bloody Trayvon Martin in place of the infant Jesus in an effort to stir a community conversation about gun violence. The nativity scene on the lawn of the Claremont United Methodist Church — which shows Martin in a hoodie, slumped over and […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Paul Blair, the eight-time Gold Glove center fielder who helped the Baltimore Orioles win a pair of World Series titles while gliding to make catches that former teammates still marvel at more than four decades later, has died. He was 69. Blair died Thursday night at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, according to […]
A teacher at Fairfield Freshman School in New Mexico was suspended without pay earlier this week for racially-insensitive comments. According to reports, Gil Voigt told…
If you thought Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, was gonna drive his truck – with his koo-koo girlfriend and their guns – off into the mountains, you’re wrong. After making slightly over $100,000 last week for selling an “original” painting of the American flag on Ebay, he’s back in the news this week for joining […]
A white man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with what authorities say was a racially motivated “knockout” assault against an elderly black man, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, of Katy, Texas, has been charged with one count of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd […]
The Harvard Lampoon has a new editor and her name is Alexis Wilkinson. For the first time in the 137-year history, Harvard University’s famous undergraduate…
Isaiah Lawrence Johnson (pictured) did more than tip the scales when he entered this world on Friday, weighing in at 14 pounds, 7.6 ounces and…
