NEW YORK--Fifteen people were arrested and the entrance to Playland was closed Tuesday afternoon after a dispute at the park involving religious dress.
Police from multiple departments from throughout Westchester County were called in for assistan ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:54AM
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Oscar De La Hoya, boxing’s golden boy and one of the sport’s most powerful promoters and iconic figures, gave a bombshell of an interview Tuesday to Univision’s Teresa Rodriguez in which he laid bare the most intimate secrets of his personal life:
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Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:50AM
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SANTA ANA, Calif.— The refusal of police to release the names of six officers involved in a violent confrontation with a mentally ill homeless man has sparked anger but legal experts said Friday there is significant debate about whether law enforceme ...
Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 11:47AM
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Hurricane Irene had led to the deaths of 18 people in eight states as of Sunday morning:
CONNECTICUT:
- In Prospect, one person was killed in a fire that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said was apparently caused by wires knocked down by the storm.
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Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:09PM
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WASHINGTON – Jesse Jackson said Thursday that the Tea Party's tenets are reminiscent of state's rights philosophies used in decades past to oppose federally mandated integration.
"The Tea Party is not new," Jackson said at a luncheon honoring civi ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 5:01PM
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NYTimes.com--The United States surgeon general has a new message for American women: It is O.K. to have a bad hair day.
As the country’s leading spokespeople on public health, surgeons general often weigh in on issues of national importance like t ...
Posted Sunday, August 28th 2011 at 4:55PM
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HOUSTON--A group representing area law enforcement has issued a statement in response to recent comments by activist Quanell X regarding what he called “over sentencing” by a “racist” local judge.
Quanell X, the leader of the New Black Panther Pa ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:22PM
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USATODAY.com--At least five people have died -- in a car accident, by heart attack and by falling trees -- as a result of Hurricane Irene, the slow-moving but powerful swirl of wind and rain that barreled ashore in North Carolina.
As the storm mov ...
Posted Saturday, August 27th 2011 at 7:16PM
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Newsweek.com--When Rutgers basketball star Epiphany Prince skipped her 2009 senior year to play professionally in Europe, her defection made headlines. The New York Daily News pointed out she became “the first American woman to leave school early and ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 11:01AM
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Press-Register Report---Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.
The P ...
Posted Friday, August 26th 2011 at 10:51AM
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If the Willie Lynch letter isn't enough to wake our people up, maybe these following videos will:
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Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 12:41PM
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OKLAHOMA--The nation's second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.
The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil W ...
Posted Thursday, August 25th 2011 at 12:27PM
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VALDEZ, Colo.--The strongest earthquake to hit Colorado in more than four decades startled thousands of residents along the New Mexico border as it toppled chimneys, cracked walls and triggered minor rockslides in the arid, mountainous region. No inj ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:35PM
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By Sharon Ewell Foster
August 23, 2011
On the 180th anniversary of the slave revolt, this author says his "Confessions" were a lie.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.," as told to Thomas Gr ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:18PM
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On July 5, 2011, closed circuit TV caught six Fullerton cops brutally murdering a homeless, mentally ill man. Kelly Thomas, age 37, died after being taken off life-support five days later.
A whistleblower who viewed the unreleased city-owned vide ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:10PM
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(FinalCall.com) - Shenita Bell-Victor and her family still have vivid memories of losing everything after floodwaters ripped through their hometown of New Orleans. However, six years later, she says they have successfully settled into their new life ...
Posted Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 1:03PM
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From Newsweek.com
August 21, 2011
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, ‘Look how far we’ve come,’ because we hadn’t come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson’s population was half white ...
Posted Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 12:16PM
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