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The Yak-42 aircraft was taking players for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl — one of Russia’s leading ice hockey teams — to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, the Russian aviation authority told CNN. Two of the 45 people aboard the plane, which included eight crew members, survived, a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry representative said. Eleven of those on the […]
By Kellep Charles Several of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and members of the African American technology community will gather September 23 in Washington for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 41st Annual Legislative Conference to discuss ways to increase African American participation in the high-growth technology industry. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, […]
DETROIT — President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth. “Show us what you’ve got,” he said. In a partial preview of […]
The network announced Friday that it will not renew the medical drama, starring Jada Pinkett Smith as the head nurse at a Richmond, Va., hospital. The third season, which ended on Aug. 16 with a cliff-hanger, drew 2.86 million viewers. Last season, the series averaged 3.6 million — low even then for a TNT drama. […]
Lucci, who has played Erica Kane on the ABC soap since 1970, spills on the behind-the-scenes action that she says caused the soap’s cancellation, and specifically sticks it to ABC Daytime head Brian Frons. The ABC exec, she writes, “has what, for me, is that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance.”Full Story Story & Pic […]
Colts head coach Jim Caldwell said on Friday Tressel will be the team’s replay consultant. Caldwell said the former Buckeyes head coach will help assistant coaches concentrate on the game and not worry about looking at replays during the game. Tressel resigned from Ohio State on May 30 after an NCAA investigation uncovered some of the Buckeye […]
A diverse group of Black businesses have made this years’ Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies. Ten companies from a variety of fields including real estate, technology and healthcare all showed significant gains, with three making Inc.’s list of 100 fastest-growing companies for 2011. The largest company on the magazine’s list, Urban Lending Solutions, […]
When President Barack Obama last headlined a Labor Day event in Detroit (2008), he wowed the crowd by humming a few bars of Aretha Franklin’s hit “Chain of Fools,” while the Queen of Soul looked on. This year, the President will be the one who is serenaded when Aretha Franklin performs at the Labor Day Rally […]
U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn believes that any plan to attack the debt and deficits will not work unless it includes ways to create jobs. And while the points of his message were worth hearing, it was the method he used that really caught my eye. Last week, he conducted a virtual town hall on […]
via CNN Dr. Ford Vox is a medical writer and neuro-rehabilitation physician. He is the medical director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation at New England Rehabilitation Hospital and clinical assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine. A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on […]
CAPE LOOKOUT, NC (RNN) – Four are dead in North Carolina and Virginia as Hurricane Irene continues a devastating crawl up the East Coast. More than 670,000 people are without electricity in the impacted states as the storm continues to creep north at 13 mph, packing 85 mph winds. It has dumped more than 15 […]
Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, attended by 1,500 family members, friends–and Hawkeye, Tumilson’s dog.Full Story Story By Yahoo! News-The Lookout/ Pic By Getty Images