VIA: WRAL.COM A rural Wisconsin man apparently enraged by Bristol Palin’s “Dancing with the Stars” routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an all-night standoff with a SWAT team, investigators said. Steven Cowan, 67, was arrested Tuesday morning after officers coaxed him out of his house in Vermont, a rural community near Madison. […]
VIA: WRAL.COM UPS says it will hire about 50,000 temporary workers to handle the crush of holiday shipments this year. United Parcel Service said Tuesday that it expects to deliver 430 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The busiest should be Wednesday, Dec. 22, when UPS expects to deliver 24 million packages worldwide, up nearly […]
Washington (HuffPo)– In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin — the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States — has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama. In a passage on perceptions of racial inequality in the […]
New York (CNN) — Two former employees of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have been arrested by the FBI in relation to his massive Ponzi scheme, according to FBI spokesman Jim Margolin. Joann Crupi was arrested overnight in New Jersey and Annette Bongiorno was taken into custody in Florida. Charges against the two will be announced […]
Florida (WBLR)– A 20-year-old Miami, Florida man, Michael Beatty, was gunned down over the weekend in front of several people, including one witness that saw it all: a convenience store video camera.
Rescue workers spent more than six hours trying to pull Vanessa Mamani from the shaft in a field in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires province. She was taken to hospital where doctors said she was shocked but otherwise unharmed by the ordeal. Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has described the rescue as “a miracle”. “She got out […]
Tampa Florida (WTSP) — Debt collectors can be relentless and downright rude on the phone, but now Melanie Beacham, a St. Petersburg woman is filing suit alleging the company that financed her car loan began harassing family members over the social networking website Facebook.
// // PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland police officer was fired and three others were suspended in connection with the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, officials said Tuesday. The discipline follows nearly 10 months of protests and tension between police and black leaders over the death of Aaron […]
National (FortMyersPress)– The poorest minority homebuyers were hit harder by Lee County’s real estate crash than their white counterparts as they were pushed into ill-advised loans to fuel the boom’s building frenzy.
VIA: ESSENCE.COM Despite “For Colored Girls” coming in at number six at the box office this weekend, the movie continues to spark debate; the loudest conversations being about the portrayal of Black men in the film. Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy recently suggested the film be renamed “For Black men who have considered homicide after […]
VIA: ESSENCE.COM “The recent report regarding certain members of the cast of “The Game” being disproportionally paid by BET is completely false,” reads a statement from BET Networks, responding to allegations that actress Brittany Daniel, a White cast member, was paid significantly more than her Black co-stars… MORE
VIA: WRAL.COM A disabled North Carolina girl was dismembered and her remains were put at different sites, according to court papers filed Monday by lawyers representing her stepmother. The court documents ask for a reduction in bail for Elisa Baker, saying she helped investigators by leading them to the remains of 10-year-old Zahra Baker. Elisa […]