BATON ROUGE, La. ā Homeowners, prisoners and city crews worked furiously Thursday to protect property along hundreds of miles of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, as a still rising surge meant more road closures and the possibility of oil tankers being cut off from refineries. The slow-moving disaster, which started last month in Illinois […]
Is the right to display a Confederate flag a matter of free speech? Or should anything related to a government function, whether it is a building or an instrument of law, remain unfettered by symbols that are offensive to millions? While the answer seems obvious, this debate is heating up again as our nation endures […]
Who knew you can have people banned from your shows? Well Prince had reportedly done just that after Whitney was reportedly bombarding him with ticket requests and behaving erratically at his shows. But the “Purple One” has now spoken saying his reps banned her and not him. He released a statement saying she is always […]
CONNECTICUT-An Action Figure company, Hero Builder, is making a new action figure of President Barack Obama to honor him for making the order to kill Osama Bin Laden. The New York Daily News reports: The Rambo-style Obama is armed with an M1-A4 rifle and is dressed in military fatigues and a black and red skull […]
NIGERIA – Bello Maasaba, a Nigerian faith healer has had 107 wives and 165 children. Maasaba’s polygamist ways led to him being in prison after he refused an Islamic Court’s order to divorce all but four of his wives. The New York Daily News reports: The Islamic faith healer, now 87, is currently wed to […]
NEW YORK, New York — Wings Academy high-school basketball star Deonte Houston was charged with first-degree robbery after he and three others allegedly stole an iPod from a 15-year-old boy. NY Daily News reports: The 17-year-old point guard and his cohorts rode their bikes into Pugsley Creek Park in Clason Point at 6 p.m. Sunday […]
On the heels of Republican Newt Gingrich announcing his run for the presidency in 2012, reports are surfacing that Ron Paul will be throwing his name in the hat as well. The controversial Republican who many deem a racist – will run for the second time – and hope to become the Republican nominee unlike […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have told the top U.S. foreign aid official that the country’s earthquake relief efforts in Haiti have been pathetic. Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz says only 5 percent of the rubble has been removed and 22 percent of the needed transitional shelters have been built. Those figures came from inspector general reports. […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – Several senators who have seen the pictures of dead Osama Bin Laden pictures have been describing them as “gruesome” to the media. The New York Daily News reports: “It wasn’t a very pretty picture,” said Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), on Fox News. “Either a bullet, the significant bullet, went through the ear […]
MCKINNEY, Texas — A 14-year-old named Nicholas Cobb has created a non-profit group providing food and other essentials to the city’s homeless. The Grio reports: It started small with toiletries for the homeless, cleaning supplies for their shelters. Then two years ago, at age 12, he set up Comfort and Joy, a small non-profit with […]
It seems that Al Qaeda is so mad at President Obama ordering the killing of Osama bin Laden that they are threatening to kill his grandmother in Kenya. The home of Sarah Obama has been under round-the-clock security according to ABC News. “We received reports of plans to attack the home of Mama Sarah Obama, […]
MISSISSIPPI – Former Detroit Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick is suing SkyTel for releasing text messages he sent to his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. These text messages, on city issued Skytel pagers, were sexually explicit and revealed that the two used city funds for their romantic trips, and planned to fire police chief Gary Brown. […]
