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What would you do if you found out you won $298 million? Would you keep your day job? Well, most of us would be like David Johnson, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y. who was unknowingly carrying around a winning ticket. According to ABC 7 News, Johnson, who worked across the street from Arnold’s Service […]

Al Roker and Dr. Bernice King are coming to the defense of a former television meteorologist who was fired for making a racial slur during a live broadcast. WHEC chief meteorologist Jeremy Kappell was fired Jan. 7 after referring to Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Rochester, New York, as “Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Park” during a weather […]

A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, one of America's most revered freedom fighters, has just surfaced in Auburn, N.Y., where she made her home after the Civil War.

NBA player Taj Gibson of the Chicago Bulls got the most heartbreaking news of his life this week – his young cousin, 6-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto and a 7-year-old friend were headed downstairs in their Brooklyn apartment building when a man, believed to be homeless, attacked them with a knife. The girl, Mikayla Capers, will […]