By Jim Sanders for the Sacramento Bee: // Dang, darn and doggone, if you must, but zip your four-letter lip – please. California is asking its 38 million residents to watch their mouths after the Assembly voted Thursday to approve a voluntary “Cuss Free Week” to begin Monday. The legislators’ action is a testament to […]
ELLISBURG, Ky. – Members of a small central Kentucky church successfully disarmed a man who rode horseback to morning services, then walked into the church with a holstered gun. Police said the man, 43, was arrested about an hour later at a house and charged with public intoxication.
VIA EURWEB: *The reign of Grammy Award-winning gospel duo, BeBe & CeCe Winans’ Still, is proving to be a chart-topping success as, “Close to You,” the first single from their reunion album is currently #4 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot Gospel Charts.
A federal judge is being asked to stop Lower Merion School District officials from removing any information from the 2,300 laptops issued to high school students. Lawyers for the school district that has been accused in a class action lawsuit of spying on students in their homes are due in court today. Mark Haltzman, the […]
Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) — Many kids dream of being in the Olympics one day. When U.S. bobsledder Bill Schuffenhauer was a child in Salt Lake City, Utah, he had no idea the Olympics even existed. All he knew was his parents were drug addicts, that his mother was a prostitute who was often beaten […]
By NEWSONE’s Casey Gane-McCalla February 18, 2010 2:01 pm // Judge Mathis was on 106th and Park yesterday. He answered questions about his beliefs on the prison system. He criticized the prison system for selling prison labor to various companies for less than a dollar a day. Mathis pointed out that Black men are 60% […]
Via MSNBC: WASHINGTON – Breast cancer survivors who take aspirin regularly may be less likely to die or have their cancer return, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. The study of more than 4,000 nurses showed that those who took aspirin — usually to prevent heart disease — had a 50 percent lower risk of dying from […]
ABC News recently did a special about successful black women who have never been married.
VIA AOL.com: ATLANTA (Feb. 14) – The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.” The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been […]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 14) – More than 23 years before a college professor was accused of shooting six of her colleagues, her teenage brother died from the blast of a shotgun she held in the kitchen of her family’s home in Massachusetts.