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Chicago — A man who lectures against inner-city violence for an allegedly fraudulent charity was charged with domestic battery for reportedly punching a woman in the face inside a parked car. Warren Jackson is a motivational speaker who works for a charitable organization called We Stop the Killings. He was arrested last Friday evening in […]

Arkansas– Scientists investigating the death of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas say they’ve identified the cause of death: blunt force trauma.

SAN FRANCISCO — A California lawmaker is calling for a boycott of companies that advertise on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show after the conservative commentator refused to apologize for mocking China’s president. State Sen. Leland Yee launched the campaign after Limbaugh’s Jan. 19 radio program, during which he did a nonsensical impression of Chinese President Hu […]

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Texas — First lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that the military’s push to turn recruits into health-conscious warriors could be a model for making people across the U.S. more focused on fitness and nutrition. Obama, who has made battling childhood obesity one of her signature causes as first lady, visited the Army’s largest training post […]

LOS ANGELES — Perhaps the “Grim Sleeper” never took a break after all. Police were investigating two more homicides Thursday that could be linked to the car mechanic already accused of killing 10 women in the serial murder case.

LANCASTER, PA-McCaskey East High School in Lancaser, Pennslyvania is experimenting with having separate homerooms for African American Students in order to boost African American academic performance. Lancaster Online reports: The idea originated with Angela Tilghman, a McCaskey East instructional coach who was alarmed at the poor academic performance of the school’s black students. Only about […]

California– Gladys Horton gave Motown Records its first No. 1 hit, as the lead voice of the Marvelettes on the 1961 classic “Please Mr. Postman.” She spent the last several decades of her life in a frustrating attempt to get the group’s name back, after Motown sold it to a promoter who assigned it to […]

Fox News pundit, Glenn Beck has heavily criticized the Bronx’s Co-Op city, a cooperative housing development that offers affordable housing. He compared the development to communist Russia. On his Fox show he said: Once you say there’s a place where everyone’s life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these […]

Ohio — Kelley Williams-Bolar was released from the Summit County Jail Wednesday morning after serving all but one day of a 10-day jail sentence for improperly enrolling her children in Copley-Fairlawn schools. A jail official confirmed Williams-Bolar was released at about 10 a.m. Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove gave Williams-Bolar credit for one day of […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Health officials are looking into the cases of four people who became paralyzed in northwestern Haiti while recovering from cholera.

In the 1980s, musicians only scratched the surface of what could be done with the music video. Michael Jackson set the standard and in the 1990s, everyone raced to match or surpass him.