Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. might be getting out of prison a lot sooner than originally thought. CBS2 reports: Jackson has been transferred from the North Carolina prison camp where he’s spent the past five months to another federal facility in Alabama. Montgomery Federal Prison camp is located at Maxwell Air Force Base, about 90 miles […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Testifying in his murder trial on Tuesday, Oscar Pistorius said he and girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp sometimes had troubles in their relationship but that they sorted them out, were in love and were planning a life together. Prosecutors say Pistorius was often jealous and overbearing in his relationship with Steenkamp and […]
Deputies are conducting a major investigation into a teenage “sexting” scandal in Virginia involving more than 100 teens and more than 1,000 photos of underage girls posted to a social media account. The investigation, involving both middle and high schoolers across six counties, began when a mother reported suspicious activity on her daughter’s Instagram account […]
Mercedes Mayfield, 6, was found unconscious in an entrance to a an apartment building on Feb. 27. Her cousin, Rachel Downer, faces charges of second-degree manslaughter and felony neglect of a child. The Daily News reports: The cousin of a six-year-old girl who froze to death outside her home in temperatures of -30 degrees has […]
A 44-year-old Jacksonville woman who admits to shooting and killing her husband is standing behind Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law as the reason why she pulled the trigger. News4Jax says: Callie Adams told Jacksonville police in 2011 that she shot her husband, Rodney Adams, two times during a fight inside their car because Adams […]
A candlelight vigil will be held Friday night to mark the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. NBCWashington reports: The vigil will begin at 7 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is scheduled to speak at the vigil. King was shot and killed at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added jobs at a solid pace in March and hired more in January and February than previously thought. Friday’s government report sent a reassuring signal that the economy withstood a harsh winter that had slowed growth. The economy gained 192,000 jobs in March, the Labor Department said Friday, slightly below […]
04/04/14 – Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to us about the 10th Anniversary of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Plus, Tom asks the Reverend who he thinks really killed Dr. King. His answer might surprise you!
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Two ships with sophisticated equipment for searching underwater zeroed in Friday on a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean in a desperate hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet’s black boxes, whose batteries will soon run out. An arduous weeks-long hunt has not turned up a single piece of wreckage, which […]
TORONTO (AP) — What could be controversial about the city of Toronto congratulating Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes? Ask Rob Ford. The Toronto mayor on Wednesday cast the sole “no” vote on a City Council motion to offer the athletes kudos. Minutes earlier, he also was the only council member to vote against a proposal […]
For iPhone: The whole country is watching New York City to see with it does with its controversial “Stop and Frisk” policy. The new Mayor Bill de Blasio knows it. That’s why he’s tasked his newly-appointed police commissioner Bill Bratton to figure it out. Part of that figuring it out process is to try to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court further loosened the reins on political giving Wednesday, ruling that big campaign donors can dole out money to as many candidates and political committees as they want as long as they abide by limits on contributions to each individual campaign. In a 5-4 vote won by conservative justices, the […]
