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Charlie Perkins, 70, a homeless man in Atlanta, GA, froze to death as temperatures in the city plummeted to 5 degrees, reports AJC.com. Read more from AJC: [Perkins] was found Tuesday morning outside a business in the 900 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, Atlanta police said. An autopsy determined Perkins died from hypothermia, an […]

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After Liz (pictured) had sex with her partner, Eric (pictured), she experienced an orgasm that just seemed endless. But  after two hours of trying to bring her climactic episode down, the Seattle couple was forced to hightail to an area hospital to seek help, according to the Daily Mail. Liz and Eric’s unique story aired […]

Clifford Hall (pictured) is certainly no deadbeat dad, yet he was slapped with a 180-day sentence for overpaying his child support, reports My Fox Houston. According to family court documents, Hall was reportedly delinquent on his child support payments, owing some $3,000 for his 11-year-old son. Yet, the dutiful dad had actually been meeting his […]

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A Miami appeals court has thrown out a double-murder conviction against Gabriel Mobley (pictured center) who fatally shot two men and then invoked the Stand Your Ground law, the Miami Herald reports. SEE ALSO: James Avery: ‘Fresh Price’ Actor Dies At 68 During a February 2008 visit to a North Miami-Dade Chili’s, Mobley reportedly stepped outside […]

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Juanita Moore, the actress who shattered racial barriers when she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1959’s “Imitation of Life” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99-years-old. Moore received a supporting actress nomination for Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life,” playing the housekeeper whose daughter passes for white, in the […]

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Rebecca Berrios, 10, was on her front porch with her siblings on New Year’s Eve when she lit fireworks that burned her entire house to the ground, reports KHOU.com One firework lit another, and fueled by items placed outside for a yard sale, the fire spread quickly. Not only did the home burn down, but […]

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Reality star and singer Traci Braxton discusses her 64-pound weight loss today on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin. She credits her fit figure to working out three times a week. As a diabetic, she focused on maintaining a healthy diet. Losing weight isn’t easy, of course, but a good look in the mirror was all it took […]

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Former President Ronald Reagan made it his mission to vilify welfare and he did it at the expense of Black women living in poverty. His shtick about a “welfare queen” has become a part of this nation’s political lore. Journalists couldn’t find her. Liberals claimed that she didn’t exist. But she did. According to an in-depth […]

A year ago, Eduardo Camargo (pictured) was on one of the toughest missions of his life, but it was a battle he had to win at all costs. Camargo needed to lose forty pounds in less than two months so that he could be a liver donor for his baby girl, Jazlyn (pictured), according to ABC […]

Seattle resident Alonza Bryant (pictured) is one lucky young lady! The teen was spared a possibly deadly fate, when the eyeglasses she was wearing deflected a bullet that struck her in the face during a drive-by shooting Saturday night, Seattle’s King 5 News reports. Bryant, who is 16-years-old, doze off with her glasses still on. According to […]

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Amiri Baraka, the legendary African-American playwright and former Poet Laureate of New Jersey, has been hospitalized, according to a broadcast report by Roland Martin. The radio and television host of NewsOne Now announced the news on his Twitter handle as well as his radio program.  Not much is known about the condition of the poet […]

Isaiah Lawrence Johnson (pictured) did more than tip the scales when he entered this world on Friday, weighing in at 14 pounds, 7.6 ounces and measuring 22.5 inches long. The little bruiser became one of the largest babies delivered at UF Health Shands Hospital, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Isaiah’s mom, Nicia McNelley, 30, (pictured) had a cesarean […]