WorldStarHIpHop is back online. According to several sources, federal authorities shut down the popular urban website, WorldStarHipHop.com. WorldStar is known for showing rap videos, footage of rappers engaging in ignorant behavior, fights, newsclips and the occasional sex tape. Reports are that they were shut down by Homeland Security. Federal authorities have already shut down the […]
Wisconsin — After the Green Bay Packers’ 21-14 victory over the Chicago Bears in Sunday’s NFC Championship game, Packers safety Charles Woodson called out President Barack Obama. “The president don’t want to come watch us at the Super Bowl, guess what?” Woodson said in a postgame speech. “We’re going to see him.” Last week, Obama […]
Chicago — Emcee, producer, fashion trendsetter, film creator — Kanye West wears many hats. One that isn’t looking so good on him these days is his chef’s hat, as Yeezy the restaurateur suffered a stinging blow last week. In 2008, West decided that his home town of Chicago needed a dose of the West Coast, […]
Berlin — German porn star and “Big Brother” participant Carolin Berger a.k.a. “Sexy Cora” died last Thursday after her sixth breast enlargement operation to go from a 34F to a 34G, Sky News reports. She was 23. Cora has been in an artificial coma since January 11 at a clinic in Hamburg. Sky News explains, […]
CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals court threw former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor Tuesday because he didn’t live in the city in the year before the election.
New Orleans — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered a study of the feasibility of merging two neighboring New Orleans universities that have both struggled to fill classrooms and graduate students. A combined institution might provide stronger services to the students of the universities and of another nearby institution, Delgado Community College, […]
Florida — Another day, another account of horrific handgun violence. Two St. Petersburg, Florida police officers were fatally shot, and a US Marshal was shot and is in stable condition while executing a search warrant at a house in St. Petersburg this morning. A local news report indicates that the suspect in the shooting is […]
Texas –Ted Williams — the homeless man with the “Golden Voice” — has left rehab against medical advice, less than two weeks after checking in for drug and alcohol dependency … TMZ has learned. Our sources say Ted — who decided to go to rehab earlier this month after a taping of the Dr. Phil […]
TUCSON, Ariz. — The man accused of carrying out the mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.
Israel — The Israeli media is filled with reports about Macy Gray confirming her plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March. This should have been an occasion for Israelis to celebrate their continuing ability to behave as a normal society despite occupying millions of people, holding Gaza under siege, maintaining an apparatus of racism […]
NEW YORK — Fans who missed Lil Wayne during his yearlong stint behind bars will get a chance to show their love for the multiplatinum rapper in person: He’s kicking off a 25-city tour in March with an all-star supporting cast.
MOSCOW — An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing at least 31 people and wounding up to 145 as it coated the terminal in blood. The Russian president called it a terror attack. The mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by a suicide bomber, […]
