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BUFFALO, N.Y. — They got hitched while still in their teens, divorced 20 years and four children later, and are getting remarried after nearly a…

NEW YORK-Rapper, Cory Gunz, real name, Peter Pankey Jr. was arrested after police claim they found him in possession of a loaded 9mm handgun in his backpack. Corey Gunz is signed to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment and had a reality show on MTV featuring his father, rapper Peter Gunz and Nick Cannon. The New […]

Last Thursday in New York City was unusually cold, but that didn’t stop more than 100 pastors, church members, and legislators from gathering on the steps of City Hall. The demonstrators–many black, Hispanic, and Asian-American–did not get a crumb’s worth of coverage in comparison to that received by Occupy Wall Street, but their mission has […]

The state has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the mother of a 15-year-old Bronx boy, who was violently restrained by prison workers until he stopped breathing, court papers show. Darryl Thompson died in Nov. 2006 after two prison youth division aides restrained him at the now-shuttered Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY. […]

via CNN A fast-food worker whose run-in with two unruly customers was captured on cell phone video last month will not be indicted on assault charges, prosecutors said Saturday. A grand jury voted against indicting Rayon McIntosh, who was seen allegedly swinging a metal object against two patrons at a McDonald’s restaurant in Manhattan’s Greenwich […]

The New York Daily News is reporting that New Orleans Hornet guard Chris Paul has asked to be traded to the New York Knicks. See also: NBA Players Return, Month After Scheduled Opener While speculation of the deal sounds great for New York sports fans, the Daily News says it is not the likely since the […]

via CNN A freak fall snow storm slammed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday, leaving three people dead, more than 2 million households without power and thousands of air travelers stranded. An 84-year-old man was napping in a recliner at his home in Temple, Pennsylvania, on Saturday afternoon when part of a large, snow-filled tree […]

NEW YORK — Five New York police officers were arrested for selling illegal cigarettes, guns and counterfeit goods. The arrest happened in a sting at the Brooklyn 68th precinct. Related: Black Travel: Visit The Shrine In Chicago The New York Daily News reports: The informant and undercover agents working with him hired various members of […]

NEW YORK — Harlem residents are concerned over a new resident who has just moved in who was convicted of killing his neighbor in 2002. Robert Durst killed his neighbor and was investigated for the disappearance of his wife. Durst is a wealthy heir to a New York real estate fortune who was also known […]

NEW YORK-Activist and New York City Councilman, Charles Barron has called for the removal of a hanging dreadlocked scarecrow from a park in Brooklyn. Barron called the scarecrow “racist” and NYPD took down the scarecrow and took it for evidence. Hate Crime? Black Student In Cali Says He Was Bullied With Noose Halloween Lynching Custom […]

NEW YORK — Jared Williams, a former star baseball player for Wagner College in Staten Island, is blaming a racist New York City police officer for the demise of his baseball career. Williams claims that after he was falsely arrested by officer Michael Daragjati, he was kicked of his college baseball team and wasn’t allowed […]

A New York police officer faces civil rights charges after he allegedly falsely arrested a Black Staten Island man and then used racial slurs to brag about it. “I fried another nigger, ” NYPD officer Michael Daragjati, 32, can be heard saying in a phone conversation  intercepted by federal authorities. “The power to arrest…must be used […]