LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Hawkins, the first black basketball player to earn All-America honors at Notre Dame and who played for the Los Angeles Lakers during a 10-year NBA career, died Wednesday. He was 80. Hawkins died in his sleep at home in Malibu, son Kevin told The Associated Press. He had been in […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Mourners will gather in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Wednesday to honor the woman who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally that descended into violence last weekend. A memorial service for Heather Heyer is scheduled Wednesday morning at a downtown Charlottesville theater. Attendees […]
According to Pix 11 News, an 18-year-old male choked his mother’s ex-boyfriend to death on Monday, in their Bronx apartment, after seeing the man beat his mother in their apartment. The NYPD arrested Luis Moux and charged him with manslaughter. 43-year-old Stanley Washington, the boyfriend, according to police reports showed up at the apartment at […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia was described as a “true American hero” who died doing what she loved — standing up for people. Two state troopers also died when their helicopter crashed in a wooded area while […]
The videos that rolled across the television screen were startling: Americans beating each other with clubs and sticks on the streets of a quiet college town. White supremacists with torches; anti-fascists pushing back. An improvised flame thrower fashioned from an aerosol can. Bottles of frozen water hurled like bricks at one another’s skulls. Bottles of […]
Houston Police report that a woman shot and killed her common-law husband when she saw him sitting outside a house with his mistress. Debra Davis, 49, was allegedly driving on the 9400 block of Cathedral Drive around noon Tuesday when she saw her husband, Rodney Johnson, sitting with the woman. Davis angrily walked up to […]
Last week, two women of Spelman College died in two separate car accidents. Senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga, died after a car accident Wednesday. Alexis Sims, a graduate of Spelman, was driving when she crashed her car, killing Lanier. According to 11 Alive WXIA, Sims was charged with vehicular homicide, and DUI. Reports […]
Last week two intelligent women of Spelman College died in two separate car accidents. Senior Erica Lanier, of Stone Mountain, Ga, died after a car accident Wednesday. Alexis Sims, a graduate of Spelman, was driving when she crashed her car killing Lanier. According to 11 Alive WXIA, Sims was charged with vehicular homicide, and DUI. […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A swinging and spinning amusement park ride called the Fire Ball broke apart on the opening day of the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday, hurtling people through the air, killing at least one and injuring seven others. Three of the injured remained hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night, authorities said at […]
A lawyer representing the family of a man who died during a car accident with Venus Williams claims the tennis star accelerated from 0 to 20 mph in 4 seconds as she drove through the intersection where the crash occurred. Michael Steinger, who represents the estate of victim Jerome Barson, tells TMZ Sports his team […]
5-year-old Benjamin ‘Kamau’ Hosch III drowned at Cochran Mill Nature Center in a waterfall on July 24, 2017 near Atlanta, Georgia. Kamau was attending Camp Cricket with 13 other children as part of a summer camp. On that day the children took a trip to the center to have lunch, hike and play in the water […]
Sixty one people were shot in the Windy City this holiday weekend and of those marked by gun violence, 11 died from their wounds.
