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From TheGrio.com: An Augusta, Georgia man is in jail accused of giving his 9-year-old so much alcohol she had to be hospitalized. Jeffery Hickson is now charged with Cruelty to Children. We’re told the 9-year-old girl was spending the night with Hickson when she called her mother crying, begging to come home. When the mother […]
Basheer Jones shares his music moment growing up in commemoration of Black Music Month June 2010. Join him on Street Soldiers every Sunday evening at 9pm Z107.9FM and every weekday morning 6am-9am on 1490AM. Streaming live on www.ZHipHopCleveland.com and www.NewsTalkCleveland.com Join Basheer Jones every Sunday at 9pm on Street Soldiers on our Z107.9FM station. The […]
Funeral plans for Gary Coleman are “pending” more than a week after his death, but his parents have dropped their bid to have the actor’s body returned to Chicago for burial, the man named as executor of his estate said Saturday. Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price had previously announced a weekend service for Coleman, who […]
Congrats, graduates! You’re about to ride off into the sunrise. I know you’re traveling light, but the road before you is littered with hidden conditions, terms and penalties that can sink your finances before you get very far. So while you’re packing the sunscreen and the graduation gift money, consider taking along just a […]
FBI agents raided two homes in New Jersey in connection to the arrests, the Newark Star-Ledger says. Two New Jersey men arrested at a New York airport planned to travel to Somalia to “wage violent jihad,” and also had expressed a willingness to commit violent acts in the United States, according to prosecutors […]
Frustrated Gulf Coast mayors confronted a BP official during a news conference Saturday after they said requests to meet with high-ranking executives at the oil company went unanswered. The incident occurred as BP’s senior vice president briefed reporters in Mobile, Alabama, about the ongoing efforts to contain the massive oil spill in the […]
With more than 300 youthful Bruins simultaneously cheering, crying and hugging each other across the street, the scene was quieter just outside the sliding doors at the east entrance of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. More here…
By Andrew Pollack CHICAGO, Illinois — Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer. The focused approach shrank tumors significantly in a majority of patients with advanced lung cancer marked by a specific genetic abnormality. Even though the […]
Just a few nights ago I had the pleasure of meeting and seeing the performance of Cleveland’s own Tommy Johnson, singer-songwriter-producer-musician. Him and many other Cleveland talents hit the stage at D.I.V.A.’s “Sensual Showcase” held at the Cleveland Improv. Many showed up and little did I know what I was in store for. Mind you, […]
Lebron is far from close to making a decision on whether he will stay or go… Lebron tells how Cleveland has the upper hand in his decision making… Lebron speaks on his childhood and his true feeling about his mother… Larry and Lebron shoot a few hoops on Lebron’s home court…
House Minority Leader John Boehner is demanding an apology from music legend Paul McCartney after the Beatle took a slap at President Bush during a recent White House ceremony. President Obama on Wednesday awarded McCartney the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song – a lifetime achievement award given by the Library of Congress. Upon receiving […]