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In a city racked by the paroxysms of violence, an activist in Chicago is turning to the Nation of Islam to help create a peace summit between warring gang factions. SEE ALSO: D.C. Schools Offer Paid Summer Program Tio Hardiman, director of CeaseFire Illinois, told NewsOne that he is in early talks with representatives for […]
Former NFL running back Jamal Lewis (pictured) was arrested in Clayton County, Georgia on Tuesday night for allegedly being delinquent on child support payments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. SEE ALSO: Gabrielle Douglas Gets Twitter Hate Over Hair Lewis, whose best years were with the Baltimore Ravens, was charged with child abandonment and a misdemeanor. He […]
Four-year-old Lloyd Morgan (pictured) will be laid to rest on Wednesday following funeral services at a church in Harlem. Morgan was struck in the head and killed by a stray bullet during a vicious gun battle that broke out during a charity basketball game last weekend in the Bronx. SEE ALSO: NBA’s Matt Barnes Arrested […]
A Chicago flash mob of more than 20 teens descended upon a trendy neighborhood shop on Saturday and ripped off over $3,000 worth of high-priced denim jeans, reports the New York Daily News. There were only four store employees on duty when the teens bum-rushed them and the Midblend Supply Company owner Luke Cho (pictured below). Want to Keep Up […]
Detective Ondre Johnson, a 17-year veteran with the New York Police Department, has been suspended without pay after a kidnapping victim was found bound and gagged in his Queens, New York garage, reports NBCNews.com. RELATED: Police Officer: ‘Black People Could Care Less About Me, Until They Need Me’ Johnson is being questioned about the crime by internal […]
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of admitted killer George Zimmerman, 28, has entered a plea of not guilty to perjury charges, reports the HuffingtonPost.com. RELATED: George Zimmerman’s Wife Charged With Perjury, Released on $1,000 Bond She will be arraigned Tuesday on the charge after Judge Ken Lester said she lied under oath about how much money had been collected […]
Rodney Dwayne Valentine, (pictured) who had been incarcerated since May 22 for damage to personal property, was released last Saturday from Rockingham County Jail in North Carolina at 8 a.m. SEE ALSO: ‘Dark Knight’ Shooter Claims Amnesia But, instead of heading home, he wound up right back in a jail cell because he reportedly refused to […]
Margaret Nunn (pictured), a patient registration representative at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, was arrested for allegedly stealing and using a dead patient’s credit card, ABC News reports. MUST READ: Up Close And Personal With ‘Love & Hip Hop Star Emily B: ‘People Love To Watch A Train Wreck’ [EXCLUSIVE] Want to Keep Up With […]
Rondell Pinkerton, 17, has been charged in the murder of 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, who was shot in the head while playing in a Bronx park, reports the Huffington Post. After telling police that he was one of several men involved in the shoot-out during a basketball tournament that killed the child, Pinkerton, who goes by […]
Hassan Malik, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Betty Williams, 28, whom he killed, stuffed into a suitcase, then placed among a pile of sidewalk trash on a New York City street three days before Christmas in 2010, reports the Daily Mail. SEE ALSO: Syrian Rebels Push For War As the 57-year-old man heard his 20-year prison […]
Venisha Brown (pictured), the daughter of legendary soul singer James Brown, was arrested after she allegedly stole her boss’s SUV and injured her outside of a North Augusta, Ga., bank, the Augusta Chronicle reports. SEE ALSO: Jackson Family Implodes Brown reportedly stole the SUV on Sunday, and her boss, Hope Campbell, 46, told cops that […]
The former doctor of 14-year-old Makayla Norman (pictured), a southwest Ohio child with cerebral palsy who weighed a mere 28 pounds at the time of her death, has been charged with failing to report child abuse or neglect in connection to her death, Fox News reports. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On […]
