A white guy, disguised as a a black guy, managed to rip off four banks and a CVS in Ohio before he was caught. No, we're not kidding.
Maybe Conrad Zdzierak was inspired by "Soul Man (1986)," or even Robert Downey Jr.'s performance in "Tropic Thund ...
Posted Friday, April 23rd 2010 at 1:56PM
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QUIT SMOKING ... FOR YOUR OWN SAKE!
If you do not smoke, then congratulations, keep up the good work.
However, You should share this info with a friend of yours who smokes.
We all know how harmful effects do cigarettes have on our health. So ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 2:45PM
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A 73-year-old woman admitted today to pimping in New Jersey today after being squealed on her own son.
Tecora Brown, pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution between April 2000 and December 2004 in Jersey City Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon. ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 2:17PM
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SALT LAKE CITY – Twelve-year-old Audrey Conner owed about $7 in fines to the Salt Lake City public library system, but the voracious reader was a little short.
It didn't matter. Her nearby library branch had an alternative: Kids who can't pay the ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 1:57PM
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LOS ANGELES -- The phone rang around 2 a.m., waking Teeida Townsend. "My homie got killed," the caller said.
Townsend knew how the cycle plays out here in the gang heartland of south Los Angeles: a killing, a revenge shooting, and then another. He ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:18PM
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.
Now the 60-year-old te ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:15PM
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Veteran R&B diva Patti LaBelle is getting an honorary degree from Temple University in her hometown of Philadelphia.
The university will present LaBelle with the doctorate in humane letters at its May 13 commencement ceremony.
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Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 12:11PM
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From InsideOut.ChicagoPublicRadio.org
April 18, 2010
There are many more black and brown young people in our jails and prisons than you’d predict, if you just look at their percentages in the population at large.
The numbers are simply out of ...
Posted Monday, April 19th 2010 at 12:54PM
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Dear Reverend Sharpton:
Congratulations to you and the National Action Network for another year of fighting for the rights of those who have no voice, and lifting up causes that would otherwise go unnoticed. I regret that I am unable to join you a ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 7:05PM
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LOS ANGELES--With a group of white supremacists yet to show up for a planned rally on the lawn of City Hall, at least two people have been injured in a steadily growing crowd of counter-protesters -- developments that prompted the Los Angeles Police ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 7:01PM
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A white supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 1:27PM
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JACKSON, Tenn. — A white supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to kill then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen on Thursday sentenced 19-year-old ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 1:22PM
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Chicago - As he ranted about his religious beliefs, a 32-year-old Wisconsin man went room to room with a 9mm pistol early Wednesday -- killing his pregnant teenage wife, his baby son and two nieces in a brick home on the Southwest Side, according to ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 11:50AM
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World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow .
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-w ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 11:45AM
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If you’re like me, now that we’re in the week that federal income taxes are due, you are finally starting to collect your records and prepare for the ordeal. Either way, whether you are a procrastinator like me, or have already finished and know how ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 2:00PM
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A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white sch ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 1:51PM
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Peace To All:
It is interesting to witness some of the startling events that have taken place in this country. In several middle and high schools, “children” have decided to take the lives of their classmates. The reasons provided are varied, bu ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2010 at 12:23PM
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A Gary, Indiana native will make history next month as the first black valedictorian from the University of Notre Dame.
Katie Washington, 21, is a biology major and minor in Catholic social teaching with a 4.0 GPA.
“I am humbled,” said Washingt ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2010 at 11:57AM
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HBO's "Treme" has garnered rave reviews from The Times-Picayune, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, and numerous magazines, newspapers and Web sites in between.
But as of 9 p.m. Sunday, April 11, ...
Posted Monday, April 12th 2010 at 12:37PM
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