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Letting sleeping dogs — and cats — lie could make you sick, a paper to be published by a U.S. Centers for Disease Control journal warns. That pet in your bed could be passing on meningitis, toxocariasis or cat-scratch disease, among others. “We don’t want to scare people, but especially for children and people with […]

Seattle — The Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, the employees union representing approximately 1,350 sworn officers, publishes a newspaper each month called the Guardian. Written by and for cops, it’s not online, not for sale, and not in newspaper boxes. Most Seattle residents have never seen a copy. But if they had been reading the Guardian […]

Florida — A SWAT team has surrounded a St. Petersburg, Fla., home, where a gunman is barricaded after killing two police officers and wounding a deputy U.S. marshal in an ambush this morning. The cops arrived at the home just before 7 a.m. to serve a felony warrant. Two St. Petersburg policemen and the marshal […]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife’s income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at least five years. Could the tax man be knocking on his door. Talk about Karma. eurweb Read More

Queen Latifah is the latest inductee into the Jersey Hall Of Fame. Governor Chris Christie, awarded the rapper/Golden Globe winner the honor yesterday. Queen Latifah is a Newark Native and plans to join other New Jersey natives Martha Stewart, John Travolta and Bruce Willis. The induction ceremony is set to take place June 5, 2011. […]

When asked to rate the progress made by President Barack Obama two years into his term of office, retired General Colin Powell said this Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union: “He’s got a way to go. I mean he hasn’t achieved all of his purposes, but he’s stabilized the economy. … Whether you approve […]

More than 60% of American households have a pet, 14 % to 62% let their dogs and cats sleep with them. That can be dangerous. Sleeping with your pets can make you sick. usatoday Read More

Jennifer Hudson will be unveiling her single “Where You At” via a LIVE video stream this Monday, January 24 at 12pm EST! You can watch her new video right here! Jennifer will talk about the new album, introduce and play the single and take a few questions from fans. Jennifer Hudson chat: RELATED: Jennifer Hudson […]

New York — A Brooklyn man whose wife died of a heart attack after waiting more than 90 minutes for an ambulance during last month’s blizzard will slam the city with a $20 million lawsuit on Monday. Robert Davis said he called 911 around 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 27 to report his wife, Claire Reed, 63, […]

Michigan — It was just before 4:30 p.m. Sunday when the gunman walked into the police station. Sgt. Carrie Schulz was shot first. Cmdr. Brian Davis raced out of an office and exchanged fire with the gunman. Davis took a bullet in the back. Then the gunman rushed the horseshoe-shaped front desk with his weapon […]

Washington, D.C.– The National Museum of African American History and Culture director faces numerous challenges in creating the official African-American Smithsonian Exhibit. Among the biggest, of course, is: What story will it tell? As part of the Smithsonian, the museum bears the burden of being the “official” — that is, the government’s — version of […]