Authorities in Big Beark Lake, Calif, continue to hunt Christopher Dorner, a for a former Los Angeles police officer as well as a former Marine that is suspected of killing three people and injuring another. Cops are searching his mother’s home in La Palma, Calif. where they served the warrant, and note that he grew [...]
Diet Soda May Increase Risk of Depression The study, which was announced Thursday and will be published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, was conducted by France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research and covered 66,118 middle-aged women whose dietary habits and health were tracked from 1993 to 2007. Diet Soda May Be Making You [...]
Nigerian poster previews a contentious coming attraction (via AFP) They apparently came when no one was looking and carried out what some now say was an evil deed around the Nigerian capital Abuja. Their crime? They plastered posters. Posters appeared on January 1 promoting President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015 — a seemingly innocuous gesture, but one… [...]
Managing editor Terry Glover passed. Glover became the senior editor back in 2006 and rose to the position of managing editor back in 2009. Mrs. Glover, 57, of Chicago, died of colon cancer Monday, Dec. 24, in her Bronzeville home, said her husband, Kendall.
Former President George H.W. Bush was battling an elevated fever Wednesday and was in “guarded condition” in a hospital intensive care unit, a family spokesman said. ”The President is alert and conversing with medical staff, and is surrounded by family,” said a statement from family spokesman Jim McGrath. Bush, 88, was moved to the intensive [...]
The Natives Land Act is a Apartheid-era legislation that meant blacks could not live in areas designated for white homes and businesses. South Africa’s government has agreed to compensate more than 700 people who were pushed from their land during this time. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Germiston in South Africa.
Veteran actor, “King of Calypso,” producer of classic songs as “Day O” and “Every Little ..and human rights activist Harry Belafonte has upset some with a statement urging President Obama to “Jail Republicans”. His exact words follow. “That there should be this lingering infestation of really corrupt people who sit trying to dismantle the wishes [...]
The lovely Niki Symone with her sultry, raspy vocals is slated to open for national recording artist Dwele as he takes the stage in SA Dec 28th. Sizzling in style, and performance, Niki, whose passion for music is unquenchable, and reflected in her songs is very popular. She commands the stage. With lyrics that spread through you [...]
Obama takes Fla giving him 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206. Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000. No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and [...]
A vigil is set for Winnsboro burning victim Sharmeka Moffitt. I last understand that this is yet to be officially classified as a hate crime. Twenty year old Sharmeka was set on fire in an alleged attack Sunday night was scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday. She remains in critical condition in the Regional Burn Center at LSU [...]