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Some pee wee football players in Pearland Texas are seeking new role models following an ugly brawl that pitted coaches from one team against coaches from another.
President Obama ripped Democratic voters even as he set off to beg them to save his Congress in November.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) A 15-year-old boy may press charges against a San Jose police officer after the uniformed motorcycle cop pretended to arrest the young man for having sex with his 14-year-old stepdaughter. The teenager claims the officer’s rant and use of expletives and handcuffs was terrifying. He truly believed that he was going […]
The atmosphere of pathos rose in a mist as Velma Hart explained to Barack Obama why she felt exhausted defending his administration. Hart admitted that she had mistaken the President for a superhero capable of knocking a hole in the brick wall stacked up by Republicans.
California’s blistering fall heat wave sent temperatures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday in downtown Los Angeles, and many sought refuge at the beach or in the shade.
The L.A. Times is reporting on a shooting at the University of Texas in Austin. A man armed with an automatic weapon reportedly shot himself to death after firing off a number of rounds Tuesday morning at a library on the University of Texas at Austin campus, the scene of one of the earliest and […]
A five-page letter from the Finance Committee obtained by LALATE NEWS indicates that in 2007 the Senate demanded that New Birth provide proof that Bishop Eddie Long wasn’t using New Birth Missionary Baptist Church funds for personal use. Four lawsuits filed last week asserted that Bishop Eddie Long allegedly diverted funds from New Birth Missionary […]
More pictures has surfaced which appear to show mega-church pastor Bishop Eddie Long and some Longfellow Youth Academy pupils at his private office.
African American abolitionist David Walker born in Wilmington, North Carolina (1785). The Opelousas Massacre occurred in Louisiana in which an estimated 200 to 300 black Americans were killed (1868). “Purlie Victorious”, a farce by playwright Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway (1961). Governor Barnett found guilty of civil contempt of the federal court. United States Court […]
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is expected to announce Friday that he is leaving the Obama administration to consider a campaign for mayor of Chicago.