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Shery Lanford Smith, the chairwoman of Sumter Tea Party in South Carolina posted a joke about killing Michelle and Barack Obama earlier this month. Lanford Smith reportedly joked about throwing the couple out of a helicopter, then quickly removed it a few moments later. Her Facebook status read, “I could throw both of them out […]
Link to video OCAL, Fla. — A Florida woman was shot in the middle of a fight in Ocala and kept fighting before she noticed she was shot in the chest. Police have now released the video in hopes of finding the gunman responsible for the shooting. The victim, Brittany Thomas, said she had gone […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Two white San Francisco male police officers are suing the city for what they claim to be racial bias in the promotion practices of the police department. Heinz Hoffman and Thomas Buckley filed a lawsuit complaint Aug. 16, stating “The city has a longstanding custom and practice in discriminating against white males.” […]
A new study by Lisa Williams, a graduate student at Ohio State University shows that bullying affects the academic success of African American and Latino students in a negative way more than it affects white students. Williams believes the reason for the difference is that Black and Latino students bullying are due to racial stereotypes. […]
MIAMI — Shawn Loftis, a substitute teacher in the Miami-Dade County Public School system was fired after his middle school principal found out about his porn career through a Wikipedia entry under his porn name, Collin O’Neal. Lofits, also a citizen reporter for CNN, was suspended and then had his teacher’s license revoked. After unsuccessfully […]
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has extended the city’s juvenile curfew, the mayor’s office announced Tuesday. The curfew, which has been in effect since Aug.12, was instituted in response to a string of mob attacks by young people who gathered using text messages and social media to alert one another. The 9 p.m. curfew is in […]
The body of a recent Temple University graduate who was reported missing Friday was found in the Delaware River in New Jersey Monday morning, police say. Roswell Friend, the 22-year-old who was a member of Temple’s track team, was found dead by the New Jersey State Police marine unit in the Delaware River in Riverton, […]
A man who died during the World Trade Center has been identified just weeks before the 10 anniversary of the attacks. DNA tests confirmed the identity of Ernest James, who worked in the World Trade Center as a risk manager at Marsh & McLennan brokerage firm. NYDailyNews.com reports: DNA evidence was used to make 91% […]
A man who died during the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 has been identified just weeks before the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks. DNA tests confirmed the identity of Ernest James, who worked in the World Trade Center as a risk manager at Marsh & McLennan brokerage firm. NYDailyNews.com reports: DNA evidence was […]
Jamal Parris, one of the men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual abuse, was sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Parris was arrested in June when Miami police found a gun and drugs in his BMW during a traffic stop. According to Parris, he […]