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Dr. Conrad Murray has just been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.
via:LATIMES.com “Everything is up on the screen.” That’s Mo’Nique, explaining why she hasn’t decamped to Hollywood to woo those who hold her Oscar dreams, whatever they might be, in their hands. How audacious of her. How refreshing. Though the award gods have been thundering in anger for weeks now, she has won a Golden Globe, […]
via:nwfdailynews.com A 51-year-old Crestview woman who had been warned about calling 911 for non-emergency reasons was arrested Jan. 26 after the fourth call in 90 minutes. She was calling to report that her husband had taken her cell phone and would not return it, according to her arrest report. When an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office […]
From the NY Post: Six Rutgers sorority girls — including one from The Bronx — have been charged with putting pledges through a horrific eight-day nightmare of beatings and starvation, authorities said yesterday.
via: myfoxhouston.com A two-year-old boy was chained to a lamppost outside a shopping center in Beijing, China, because his parents feared he could be abducted, it emerged Thursday. Passers-by saw the child tied to a post while his father, an unlicensed motorbike driver, tried to find passengers. The boy’s mother was thought to be mentally […]
LAS VEGAS (Feb. 2) — Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who last month apologized for privately praising President Barack Obama’s lack of a “Negro dialect,” posted a Black History Month essay on his Web site Monday in which he takes credit for racial integration in Las Vegas. One problem: Some local black leaders and historians don’t […]
From ThinkProgress.com: Michael Steele’s tenure as Republican National Committee chairman has come with considerable controversy, particularly his frequent verbal slip-ups that have even angered many in his own party.
From MSNBC: WASHINGTON – The military’s top uniformed officer declared Tuesday that gays should be allowed to serve openly in uniform, arguing that it is “the right thing to do.”
ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery was in stable condition an Atlanta hospital because of respiratory problems.
