MEDINA, Ohio – A little girl is dead and another was rushed to a Medina hospital after the children were found in a hot car Thursday evening, the Medina County Corner’s Office tells Fox 8 News.
Charles W. Bowser, 79, a tenacious advocate of racial fairness and an influential civic leader whose two campaigns for Philadelphia mayor inspired a generation of African American political leaders, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at HCR Manor Care in King of Prussia.
DILLINGHAM, Alaska — Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but his father died a few feet away. Medical workers spent the miserable night tending to survivors’ broken bones amid a huge slick of fuel that coated a muddy mountainside.
Three teens have been charged with murder in the beating death of a 47-year-old Salvadoran immigrant, in the upscale community of Summit, N.J. Not only that, but authorities say the teens also filmed the attack using a phone video-camera, and then circulated the video among teenagers in the town. To add still further insult to […]
From NAACP After the passing of this week’s resolution to encourage Tea Party leaders to repudiate racism within their ranks, the NAACP has received a number of death threats at local units and chapters around the country. The following chilling voice message was left at the NAACP’s Hollywood Bureau. To Listen To The Voice Message […]
CLEVELAND — For people who are struggling to make ends meet, a sudden expense can be devastating, and there are times it can be catastrophic. A growing number of local people are finding themselves in this situation when a loved one dies. With the cost of a funeral and burial upwards of $5,000, it […]
(CNN) — Young, athletic and troubled — NFL player Chris Henry might have been a football cliché. After being arrested four times, suspended by the league three times and released once by the Bengals, the wide receiver appeared to be on a personal and professional comeback. But all that ended in December 2009. Henry died […]
The documentation of rock and roll’s Black roots should come as no surprise to anyone with an Internet connection and a thirst for musical knowledge, but many are unaware of the band Death and the role that they played in shaping the sound of 1970s proto-punk music.
From Chicago Breaking News At least 40 people were shot over the weekend across Chicago, with seven of them slain, according to police logs. The toll covers a period from 8:43 p.m. Friday–after violent storms hit the city–to 6:39 this morning. On Sunday, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis acknowledged a high number shootings over the […]
The widow of singer Sean Levert, who died six days after entering Cuyahoga County Jail in March 2008, has settled her lawsuit against the county and the company that oversees health care in the jail for $4 million. The settlement with the county and Midwest Medical Staffing Inc. was reached late Wednesday after a nine-hour […]
(CNN) — Former child star Gary Coleman, who rose to fame as the wisecracking youngster Arnold Jackson on the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” but grew up to grapple with a troubled adulthood, has died. He was 42. Coleman died of a brain hemorrhage at a Provo, Utah hospital, Friday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman. […]
In Conyers, Ga. twin 16 year old girls have been arrested for the brutal murder of their own mother. Authorities found their mother dead in January of 2010. Conyers Police arrested Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whitehead on Friday. This was after a four-month investigation finding overwhelming evidence that the twin girls beat and stabbed their own […]
