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A special NewsOne/Elev8 report: Bishop Eddie Long may have just wrought the end to his Atlanta mega-congregation, the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. A source within New Birth says that the consequences of the Long sex scandal have amounted to a veritable “three strikes” against him. Strike One — Church elders are abandoning Long– The […]
NEW YORK—Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, former head of the Bank of Alexandria, was arrested Monday afternoon after a hotel maid told police that the Egyptian businessman sexually assaulted her in his New York hotel room. According to reports, Abdel-Salam Omar allegedly groped and grinded against the woman after locking her in his $900-a-night room at The […]
NEW YORK-Willis Sands, an off duty paramedic saved a 2-year-old girl after she fell out of a window on the 5th floor by using his skills and training to stabilize her before she was sent to the hospital. NBC New York reports: “I looked down and I saw the baby shaking,” Sands said. “Blood underneath […]
WASHINGTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is calling Barack Obama “one of the most ineffective presidents” he’s ever seen, and says he can beat him next year. Romney tells NBC in an interview that while Obama wasn’t responsible for the recession he inherited, “he made things worse. He’s failed.” Romney also says he thinks […]
Despite claims of economic upturn, housing prices fell in March to their lowest point since the real estate bubble burst, new data says. Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index reports 12 of the 20 cities included in the data suffered new recession lows in March. The desire to own your own home, long a […]
MIAMI-Police killed a man after an altercation that lead to a shoot out and car chase in Miami during the busy Memorial Day festivities. The Miami Herald reports: Police Chief Carlos Noriega said the weekend’s relative peace was shattered just before 4 a.m. when a driver struck an officer with his car near Collins Avenue […]
MIAMI-Willie Lee Bell Jr., also known as “Will Da Real One,” a well known Miami poet who had appeared on “Def Poetry Jam,” was shot and killed outside the Literary Café and Poetry Lounge he owned and operated. The New York Daily News reports: The killing shocked members of the spoken-word community, who said Bell […]
BROOKLYN-A four-year-old boy, Jayelin Graham was killed after his step father, Damian Jones’ Cane Corso, an Italian dog trained for hunting wild boars, “Machete” bit his throat and mauled him to death. Graham and his brothers were left alone with the dog who was “trained to kill” according to neighbors who also claimed that the […]
Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois told Slate Magazine that President Barack Obama was elected due to his race and white guilt. “Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a […]
Naomi Campbell is suing Cadbury over an ad campaign that compares the super-model to chocolate.