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The Senate on Wednesday cleared the way to provide $10 billion to states and local school districts to prevent teacher layoffs and an additional $16 billion in federal aid to cash-strapped states, and the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said she would summon House back from its summer recess to grant final approval to the bill. The […]
MANCHESTER, Conn. — A warehouse driver who a union official said was caught on video stealing beer from the distributorship where he worked went on a shooting rampage there Tuesday, killing eight people and wounding two before committing suicide.Omar Thornton, 34, pulled a handgun after a meeting in which he had been offered the chance […]
Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, strode into the media spotlight last month when he called on the Tea Party to “repudiate the racist element and activities within” its ranks. He immediately became the focus of attacks from the right and emerged as a visible advocate for racial justice, following […]
A body believed to be that of former Cleveland Cavaliers power forward Lorenzen Wright was found in southeast Memphis today according to sources.
A dam on an eastern Iowa lake suffered a “catastrophic” failure Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee, officials said. The Lake Delhi dam, about 45 miles north of Cedar Rapids, failed as a result of “massive rain — a very unusually high amount this season,” according […]
Portions of the northern Gulf Coast could start to see heavy winds and squalls Saturday, even though forecasters downgraded the weather system known as Bonnie to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 2 a.m. ET, the system was moving through the eastern Gulf after crossing southern Florida Friday. It had maximum […]
Kid Cudi attacks a fan AGAIN! So if you haven’t seen the video by now then you can watch it … click here. At the Ohio Homecoming this week Kid Cudi attacks a crazy fan on stage while performing his song “Pursuit of Happiness” and off but the fan is the one that gets arrested. […]
In his first broadcast network interview about the Shirley Sherrod controversy, President Barack Obama says he’s called on his aides and Cabinet members to practice a more patient, deliberative style of governance so that this kind of rush-to-judgment won’t happen again. After phoning the ousted Agriculture Department official personally on Thursday and expressing his regret, […]
Cleveland’s own hits the stage with Chip tha Ripper as the finale to the Ohio Homecoming celebration of Ohio’s 214th Birthday. See more clips from the Ohio Homecoming here…
The memorial celebration for the legendary, Bishop Walter Hawkins at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, was held this morning. His maghony-brown casket sat at stage left and was covered with a beautiful flower arrangement. Not clear why the casket wasn’t front and center, but I have my own speculations. Perhaps it was Bishop Hawkins […]
After the NAACP passed a resolution declaring the tea party to be a “racist” organization, you knew that Allen West would have something to say. After all, he’s one (if not the only?) tea party-backed congressional candidate who’s African-American. If the tea party is racist, then West’s own tea party activism would make him racist […]
First black applicant to Missouri State University, Mrs. Mary Price Wells *We don’t mean to mislead you with the headline because you may think that Missouri State University is just getting their first black student, but nothing could be further from the truth. No, we mean they just didn’t accept the first black student that […]