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“Annie Christian was a whore always looking for some fun being good was such a bore, so she bought a gun she killed John Lennon, shot him down cold she tried to kill Reagan, everybody say gun control” –Prince, “Annie Christian” (1981) ” … a prayer vigil/press conference at Brookdale Hospital to pray for the […]

New York– A Queens woman is blaming police for her 72-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack over a week ago, when she said they tried to write her a summons for not wearing a seat belt. The widow Doris Hudson claims the officers made her husband walk a half mile home to get her I.D. in […]

Roland Martin joins the “Best Political Team on Television” for reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union address. President Barack Obama did not mention poor or middle class Americans. Roland called this omission a failure. WATCH:

New York — Detectives are investigating how a Harlem teen who dreamed of becoming a music teacher wound up dead in a snowbank outside a building in the Abraham Lincoln Houses, police said. A passerby spotted the snow-covered body of Gregory Willis Jr., 17, on Sunday morning – four days after his family reported him […]

Congressman James Clyburn joins Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss President Obama’s State of the Union address, what it means for African-Americans and government spending.

Delray Beach, Florida– David Michael Muringer, a Florida man was arrested after driving for four hours with the dead body of a 40-year-old woman.  Muringer told detectives that the woman died from a night of wild sex gone wrong.

New York — Cops are hunting five teenage girls accused of pummeling a Wendy’s employee in a Queens attack that was posted on YouTube. The gang of girls punched, kicked and slapped Michelle Ortiz, 42, in a wild melee in the Hillside Ave. fast-food joint in Queens Village on Jan. 21, cops said. Ortiz, a single […]

Roland Martin joins the Best Political Team on Television to discuss Michele Bachmann’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. WATCH:

NEW YORK  — The Dow crossed the 12,000 mark for the first time since June 2008 as U.S. stocks nudged higher Wednesday. Investors were parsing through the latest corporate results and awaiting the Federal Reserve’s latest pronouncement on the nation’s economy. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) rose 37 points, or 0.3%, hitting its highest […]

Update: WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Tuesday night for Americans to unleash their creative spirits, set aside their partisan differences and come together around a common goal of out-competing other nations in a rapidly shifting global economy. In a State of the Union address to a newly divided Congress, Mr. Obama outlined what his […]