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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — The man being questioned in the deaths of two children found in luggage in a South Florida canal has a record of several arrests.

MIAMI-After seven people were killed by police in seven months, Miami residents have protested Police Chief, Miguel Exposito, and called for his firing. NBC Miami reports: Earlier this week, Reverend Al Sharpton was in Miami, where he announced at an NAACP meeting that he’d written a formal request to the Justice Department asking them to […]

NEW YORK — A New York City man who said he helped a debt-ridden motivational speaker kill himself has been convicted of murder. RELATED: 25 reasons we love Michael Jordan Jurors delivered their verdict Thursday in Kenneth Minor’s trial. The case raised questions about the legal limits of assisted suicide in the unusual context of […]

RICHMOND, Va. — The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was considered a rallying cry for black Americans and a major threat to Southern leaders, who worked vigorously to ban it.

Massachusetts – An investigation has uncovered that four Boston area schools have been serving expired lunches from 2009 to students. RELATED: Cars We Loved Way Back When Boston City Councilor John Connolly chose four random public schools for the surprise inspection and found many schools with stocked expired goods. Read more at HuffingtonPost RELATED: Boston […]

NEW YORK — Mariah Carey says she was unaware that she was booked to perform a concert linked to Gadhafi’s clan – and she’s embarrassed “to have participated in this mess.”

Los Angeles — Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rodney King beating, which was coincidentally caught on tape by a voyeuristic bystander, George Holliday. Unbeknown to Holliday that night, the nine minutes of taping would change the criminal justice system forever. With new technological advancements and the Internet, anyone with a cellphone now can […]

California — The streets of one Northern California city closed three firehouses, lost nearly half of its police force, has been overtaken by crime and drugs, and filed for bankruptcy in 2008. RELATED: 25 reasons we love “Love Jones” Vallejo, a city 25 miles north of San Francisco, is a prime example of the economic […]

NEW YORK – Angel Alvarez was found not guilty of gun charges stemming from an incident in which he was shot 23 times by police according to reports. RELATED: 25 reasons we love “Love Jones” The NYDNews reports: Witnesses said Alvarez was brawling with Luis Soto, 22, over a gun when two shots rang out […]

WASHINGTON — The number of people requesting unemployment benefits last week plunged to a nearly three-year low, bolstering the likelihood that companies will increase the pace of hiring this year. Also read: Samples of History: Hip-Hop Mines Afrobeat

ATLANTA – Three middle school students were suspended or expelled from Chapel Hill Middle School for writing that their teacher was a rapist, a pedophile and was bi-polar. Also read: TOP 9 MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE 1990s The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:

RICHMOND, Va. — Rastafarian and other Virginia inmates who refuse to cut their hair have been moved to a maximum security prison as corrections officials continue trying to get them to comply with the state’s grooming policy.