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WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (AP) — Two Orlando-area high school students got into fight Wednesday at the bus pickup area and one of them opened fire, wounding the other, police said. A 17-year-old student from West Orange High School was taken into custody while a 15-year-old had injuries to his face and stomach, police and school […]
A photo opportunity with Tom Brady cost two security guards their jobs at Houston’s Reliant Stadium. Following the Houston Texans’ loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday, one of the guards, Joel Williams – who worked part-time at the stadium – told KHOU-TV that he had his picture taken with the quarterback just as […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jameis Winston will learn whether he faces prosecution Thursday when a state attorney finally announces the results of an intensive investigation into sexual assault allegations against the quarterback for top-ranked Florida State. The alleged incident occurred nearly a year ago, but it wasn’t until last month that Tallahassee police turned over […]
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas and wife Mellody Hobson, financial analyst and Tom Morning Show special commentator, donated $25 million to the After School Matters program in Chicago. The program serves 4500 teenagers during the school year and 5500 in the summer. The money will be used to keep kids in the program and provide […]
DETROIT (AP) — Shirley Lightsey’s phone keeps ringing. As head of a group of Detroit retirees, she’s trying to keep up with calls from anxious pensioners who fear their monthly payments are at great risk now that a judge says the bankrupt city can cut them. Unions and pension funds are pledging to appeal a […]
Who wears naked white girls as art? If you think the question is weird, here’s the answer: It’s a black man named Nate Hill, a performance artist from Brooklyn, New York. So you’re probably asking: “What the hell?” Well, we are, too. But it’s true. Hill, 36, has created a controversial project he calls “Trophy […]
When Houston police spotted Landry Thompson (pictured left), a 13-year-old Tulsa, Okla., dancer in the company of two Black men, Josiah Kelly (pictured right), 22, her dance…
When it comes to sexual assault accusations, some people try to take more precautions than others when they feel like they have more to lose.…
Jawon Johnson (pictured), a Maryland teenager spent four days in jail in a case of mistaken identity last month, CBS Baltimore reports. SEE ALSO: Last…
South Africa will charge one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons with assault and waving a gun at another man, a prosecutor’s official said on Sunday. Mandla Mandela is due to appear in court on Friday, Luxolo Tyali, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, told Reuters. “The NPA has decided to prosecute him and summons have […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle. The Nigerian cook survived by breathing an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket. A video of Okene’s rescue in May that was posted on the Internet […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in New Orleans said he expected to seat a jury on Tuesday to hear the retrial of a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina. It’s the second trial U.S. District Judge Lance Africk has held in […]
