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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.

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Washington — President Barack Obama and his top aides launched a roadshow Wednesday aimed at putting some momentum behind his State of the Union proposals to beef up American competitiveness and spur job creation. Just hours after delivering his address to the joint session of Congress, Obama visited three Wisconsin manufacturing companies, including firms that […]