Senior citizens who are black are more likely to be the victims of psychological and financial abuse as elders of other races.
A Lithuanian company plans to set up a holiday island in the Maldives run entirely by blondes – the latest project in a growing blonde movement in the Baltics. But how legitimate is this latest sign of Baltic blonde ambition? What do you call a blonde who runs a business? A dab hand at marketing, […]
The Root obtained the audio clip below from a source at the National Association for Consumer Advocates, a group that helped Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) craft the End Debt Collector Abuse Act (EDCAA) bill. Though the clip depicts the behavior of just one California debt collector, it’s the kind of virulent harassment that has become […]
By: Andre Knott The Browns search for an identity may be complete as the Browns bullied past the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 Sunday, behind the bullish running of Peyton Hillis. Hillis brings an old school mentality to the Browns offense that has been absent for years. After last week’s loss to Baltimore, Hillis’ monster game was […]
Four armed men barged into Anna Mburano’s hut, slapped the children and threw them down. They flipped Mrs. Mburano on her back, she said, and raped her, repeatedly.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio gasoline prices have drifted higher amid a rise in oil prices above $80 a barrel for the first time since August. The latest survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express puts Ohio’s average price for regular-grade gasoline at $2.65 a gallon, up […]
NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless could pay out up to $90 million in refunds to cell phone customers who were improperly charged for inadvertent Web access or data usage over the past several years. The FCC had asked Verizon Wireless last year about $1.99-a-megabyte data access fees that appeared on the bills of customers who […]
America faces global outrage after it apologised for deliberately infecting patients in a mental hospital with STDs in science experiments. Government officials provided prostitutes to patients in the Guatamalen institute from 1946 to 1948 to to test if the relatively new drug penicillin could prevent them catching STDs. None of the tests proved successful and […]
