New York– Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the radio therapist who ignited controversy last August with her repeated use of the “N-word” while speaking to an African-American caller on air and subsequently moved from broadcast radio to satellite, said Tuesday: “To call me a racist? That was absurd.”
Georgia– A 21-year-old Georgia man was arrested after he allegedly fondled himself inside a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant Monday afternoon.
Chicago, Illinois– The mother of Derrion Albert stood in a cramped courtroom Tuesday and told the boy about to be sentenced in her son’s infamous beating murder that an apology wasn’t necessary. Cook County Juvenile Court Judge Colleen Sheehan sentenced the boy to a detention center until he turns 21, the maximum possible in Juvenile […]
Text from one of our RadioOne stations, The Buzz 100.3 in Cincinnati Cincinnati — Gladys and Jamie Scott, recently freed from a Mississippi prison, came on the TJMS this morning to disscuss life after prison and the conditions of their release. The Scott sisters, who have been imprisoned for 16 years, were released on Friday […]
(via citybeat.com) – A major effort is underway today to urge Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) to buck his GOP colleagues and vote against repealing the health-care reform law. A national group, Catholics United, is placing about 6,000 telephone calls to Catholics who live in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, that contains a recorded message asking them […]
Gladys and Jamie Scott, recently freed from a Mississippi prison, came on the TJMS this morning to disscuss life after prison and the conditions of their release. The Scott sisters, who have been imprisoned for 16 years, were released on Friday morning on the condition that the younger sibling donate a kidney to her older […]
Michigan — Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee says that his investigators are still intensely searching for what he called the “monster” that has been attacking women on the city’s northeast side. “I think we all have the same goal in mind, and that’s to bring this predator to justice,” Godbee said. “We’re not going to […]
(via: newsy.com) – Are Senator John McCain and President Obama becoming BFFs? Mr. McCain penned a friendly op-ed in The Washington Post, supporting his former 2008 presidential rival’s leadership — and praising the president for his speech following the deadly shootings in Tucson. To hear more about McCain’s good words, check out the video below. […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian prosecutors presented formal charges of corruption and embezzlement against the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier on Tuesday, raising the level of uncertainty surrounding his abrupt emergence from exile this week. The case, which involves acts that he is accused of committing before fleeing the country nearly 25 years ago, was presented at […]
Washington — Bam is back. The President has matched his highest approval rating in more than a year, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Fifty-four percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance. Support for him hasn’t been this high since April 2010 after he signed the health care reform bill into law […]
Make no mistake about it, the shooting outside an Arizona grocery store last week that seriously injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed six people, and wounded 13 others was a horrible manifestation of the bitter and ugly political times we live in. As everyone knows by now, the assassination attempt by 22 year-old Jared Lee Loughner […]
Jamaica — Reggae artist Vybz Kartel hates himself, but it’s not his fault. The dancehall musician lightened his skin and has experienced a backlash from fans who are appalled by his physical changes. In a recent interview, Kartel linked blacks who lighten their skin to white people who tan. “This is my new image,” Kartel […]
