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WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama got plenty of helping hands to replant her popular garden on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal and state officials have concluded that the small amount of radiation reaching Southern California from Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor pose no significant health risk.

Alabama — Last summer, African-American man Worcy Crawford passed away at the age of 92. If you are unfamiliar with the name, you aren’t the only one. With his passing, a civil rights story of epic proportions went untold. When people think of buses and the civil rights era, they think of Rosa Parks. But […]

VIENNA – Radioactive fallout from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has reached Southern California but the first readings are far below levels that could pose a health hazard, a diplomat said Friday.

HOUSTON-Lashwanda Allen was arrested in Houston after police found her passed out with her 1-year-old daughter, allegedly drunk off Four Loko. The New York Post reports: When she awoke, she told police, her one-year-old daughter was holding an empty can and was stumbling around like she was drunk, KTRK reported Police said that the incident […]

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson asked the full Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday to do what three of its members have already declined to do – overturn his conviction and sentence in a botched Las Vegas hotel room heist.

PHILADELPHIA-A man has been caught on tape sexually assaulting women on a Philadelphia streets by grabbing their rear-ends. NBC Philadelphia reports: A recent attack happened Thursday morning on the 600 block of N 15th Street and this time it was caught on tape, according to Philadelphia Police. In the video the man can be seen […]

A new Presidential poll by Public Policy, has actor and drug user, Charlie Sheen beating Sarah Palin among independents: We’ve found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011: down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by 1 point in Texas, only up by […]

NEW YORK-Glenn Beck says that Obama is sympathetic to terrorist causes on his radio show. BECK: But here is – here is the point on that. I believe that’s because he just sees us as the oppressor nation. He just sees us as a nation who is and has oppressed the Native Americans and, and […]

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police officers have often used deadly force without justification, repeatedly made unconstitutional arrests and engaged in racial profiling, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report.

CAMDEN, N.J. — Camden Mayor Dana Redd said Thursday that she’ll rehire 50 of the police officers and 15 firefighters laid off earlier this year amid a budget crisis in the city, which has seen a spike in crime. She said the state government is providing $2.5 million to bring back the public safety officers […]

New York — Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons wrote yesterday that Bill Cosby snubbed his attempts to apologize for past comments; shoulder bumping Simmons and telling him to “Get the f*** out my face,” at the Jackie Robinson Annual Awards Dinner in New York. “I wanted to find him to apologize, to tell him I was […]