It looks like selling his NBA Championship ring might have done the trick. Former NBA player Antoine Walker is done with his bankruptcy proceedings. Walker owed the government $12.7 million after having made a reported $110 million during his career in the NBA. He was discharged from bankruptcy by a federal judge last week. One […]
Winfrey visited “CBS This Morning,” where her best friend Gayle King is a co-host, and spoke about the struggles she is experiencing on her television network OWN. “The idea of creating a network was something that I wanted to do. Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else,” Winfrey […]
The screams for help heard on a 911 call placed moments before Trayvon Martin died were not from George Zimmerman, say forensic experts. Independent forensic experts Tom Owen and Ed Primeau both tell the Orlando Sentinel that the voice heard on the call does not match Zimmerman’s. Owen says he used voice match software to […]
Every family has secrets they’d rather not broadcast to the world. The same goes for Alicia Keys, who canceled an appearance on Prof. Henry Louis Gates’ PBS show, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr, because of her late African-American grandmother, Vergil DiSalvatore (pictured). Speaking at a panel for the show, Gates recalled how […]
A bustier worn on stage by Whitney Houston fetched $18,750 at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills of memorabilia from the late pop star’s career. The sale of 13 items brought in a total of $80,187 from bidders in the gallery, on the phone and online, according to celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien. A grey velvet […]
What would you purchase if you were the Mega Million Jackpot Winner? With the Friday’s drawing up to $540 million, NBC-17 wanted to find out what that might mean if someone in the Triangle were the winner. What about the most expensive home on the market in the Triangle? A swank home right next to […]
The next time you let your fingers do the walking, you’ll have to dial a few extra digits. Beginning Saturday, callers in Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Orange, Wake and Wayne counties will be required to dial the area code of the phone number they are calling when they make local calls. Three-digit […]
This acting like a lady and thinking like a man has clearly gone too far. There are some things you simply can’t un-see, one of them is Charles Barkley in a dress and wig. While this is not the first time the NBA Hall of Famer turned pitchman has dressed like a woman (he’s done […]
Singer /actor Tyrese just can’t win. Tyrese has gone on the interview circuit proclaiming how cool he and Transformers director Michael Bay are. The only issue with that is Michael Bay doesn’t want to be associated with Tyrese. Bay and his attorneys sent a cease and desist letter to Tyrese. To add insult to injury, […]
There’s a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs and plenty of folks here in the Triangle are fantasizing how they would spend the money. The Mega Millions drawing of the nation’s largest-ever lottery jackpot is Friday. Van Denton, a spokesman for the North Carolina Education Lottery, said the jackpot might even be a world […]
A JetBlue pilot has been charged with interfering with a flight crew after his midair behavioral meltdown led to an emergency landing. The federal criminal complaint reveals details of the incident in which Clayton Osbon, 49, displayed what passengers and fellow crew members described as erratic, bizarre and disturbing behavior. The affidavit details the trip: […]
The funeral director who prepared Trayvon Martin’s body for burial told HLN’s Nancy Grace Wednesday that he did not see any cuts or bruises on the teen’s hands that would have been indicative of a struggle with George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed the Florida teen. Richard Kurtz of Roy Mizell and Kurtz […]