VIA: WRAL.COM Comedian and actor Bill Cosby will be the keynote speaker at Shaw University’s spring commencement ceremony, school officials said Monday. Cosby will speak during the May 8 ceremony at Dorton Arena, university spokeswoman Tanya Wiley said. Graduation is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Founded in 1865, Shaw is the oldest black college […]
NEW ORLEANS — In damage control mode, GOP national chairman Michael Steele on Saturday sought to quell the furor over his management of the Republican National Committee by acknowledging errors and vowing to learn from them.
VIA: WNCN.COM Cary Police continue to search for a shooter after the town’s first murder since 2008. Early Saturday morning, police responded to The Grove at Cary Park apartments. That’s where they found Jibrael Menelik, 28, of Apex, who was found shot in the breezeway of the 700 apartment building. Menelik was taken to Duke University […]
VIA: CNN.COM Actress Dixie Carter, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show “Designing Women,” has died, her agent said Saturday. She was 70. She was 70. Carter died from complications arising from cancer, her publicist, Steve Rohr, said Sunday. Carter was drawn to roles portraying steely Southern women. One of […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Police say a Pennsylvania father went to his son’s elementary school to retrieve nearly four ounces of marijuana from the kindergartner’s Elmo backpack. State police say Ronald Washington called Menallen Elementary School in Uniontown on Thursday morning to ask if his son had arrived at school. Police say Washington told school officials he […]
VIA: WRAL.COM A Dunn woman who accidentally suffocated two infants in less than four years has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Destiny Tequita Judd, 23, of Sawyer Circle, was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Harnett County jail under a $100,000 bond. Judd’s 7-week-old daughter, Jordan, died Dec. 26. An autopsy determined that […]
VIA: CNN.COM Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell apologized Wednesday for leaving out any reference to slavery in his recent proclamation designating April as Confederate History Month, calling it a “major omission.” “The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or […]
From the NY Times: WASHINGTON — Michael Steele was hardly the consensus choice to become chairman of the Republican National Committee, scrambling to the top early last year after surviving multiple ballots in a crowded field.
(CNN) — Authorities in Linden, New Jersey, have launched a homicide investigation after the discovery Monday of a pair of trash bags containing the dismembered remains of two people, officials said. The medical examiner has confirmed the body parts are “indeed human,” the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release. “There were two […]
VIA: WTVD.COM The Wake County Sheriff’s Offcie is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a prisoner who was mistakenly released. William Otis Bryant, Jr. aka “Jabo” was released from Bertie Correction on April 2. He should have been released to the custody of the Wake County Sheriff’s Office. Bryant is wanted for first-degree murder […]
VIA: WRAL.COM A fire at a Clayton day care under construction on Monday was set, Clayton police said Tuesday. The blaze was reported at Building Blocks Childcare, located at 55 Hawkesburg Drive near the 3100 block of Vinson Road, just before 4 a.m. No one was hurt. Specific information was withheld due to the ongoing […]