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Michael Jackson‘s big brother Jermaine Jackson is being forced to live in Africa until he can pay his ex-wife $100,000 in back payment on his child support payments. TMZ is reporting that Jermaine Jackson is currently staying in Ouagadougou, Urkina Faso, Africa, and is the process of trying to obtain a new passport. Jerrmaine’s passport […]

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GREELEY, Colo. — A member of the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education is broadcasting an attack on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on his radio station. Brett Reese reads a listener’s letter on 104.7 FM Pirate radio that calls the slain civil rights leader a sexual degenerate, a communist and modern-day plastic […]

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Washington — A veteran Congressional aide who worked most recently as a lobbyist and was married to a senior White House legislative affairs official was found dead Monday behind the couple’s Capitol Hill home following a low-speed car crash and subsequent fire. Ashley Turton, whose husband, Dan, is the White House’s deputy director of legislative […]

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BALTIMORE — The search continues for Phylicia Simone Barnes, a star high school student from North Carolina who went missing in Baltimore last week. The 16-year-old honor student from Monroe, N.C., was visiting her half-sister when she disappeared three days after Christmas. Phylicia was last heard from Dec.28 via Facebook when she posted a note […]

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Haiti — Officer Joseph Jacquet is one of six Haitian-born NYPD officers on a three-month rotation in Port-au-Prince.

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From the NYPost A ballistic bus driver attacked a Bronx high-school student as she fled a tirade of insults for coming up short on her bus fare, a lawsuit claims. Yelenys Soto, who was 15 at the time, felt sick when she boarded the BX2 near Clinton HS at around 11:20 a.m. Nov. 25, 2009. […]

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Atlanta — On Thursday’s edition of “Inside The NBA” on TNT, NBA analyst Charles Barkley ripped Tucker Carlson for saying Michael Vick should have been executed. Carlson made the statement while filling in for Sean Hannity on Fox News on Dec. 28.

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All weekend we’ve been hearing more and more about the unsettling news of the recent Arizona shootout involving and estranged gunmen that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition plus a handful of others wounded. Today we’re examining the reactions of people all over America who are now trying to figure out exactly what […]

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President Barack Obama talks about the Saturday shooting of U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others in Tucson Arizona. In case you missed it you can watch the video below.

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North Carolina — Alysa Stanton, who made headlines when she became the country’s first black woman rabbi, will be leaving her Greenville, N.C. pulpit — after the congregation that hired her less than two years ago decided not to renew her contract. Stanton said the decision to leave was not hers, and that she fully […]