NEW YORK– Rep. Anthony Weiner says he is not answering anymore questions about the lewd Twitter photo incident, leaving many questioning his innocence because of inconsistency in his stories.
It’s been announced that Jay-Z’s New York nightspot the 40/40/ Club is closing for renovations. The club opened in 2003 and is the flagship of 8 locations around the world. Jay-Z and partner Juan Perez thanked patrons and discussed the 40/40’s makeover in a letter posted on the club’s websites. According to the letter, the […]
NEW YORK CITY — Fatoumata Diallo, a 21-year-old Bronx woman, was struck and killed by a train after she fainted and fell onto the tracks. NBC reports: Police say that 21-year-old Bronx resident Fatoumata Diallo fainted, possibly due to the heat, just as a northbound No. 6 train pulled into the station, and was “cut […]
NEW YORK-DJ Mister Cee, who deejays for the influential Hot 97 radio station has plead guilty to loitering, for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense and will require three months of counseling for the incident in which he was busted with a transsexual prostitute in New York City. The New York Daily News […]
NEW YORK-African-Americans pay a lot more for auto-insurance than drivers of other races according to a new study. The study was for male drivers in New York, where auto insurance tends to be very high in poor and working class neighborhoods. The San Francisco Gate reports: 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org surveyed 600 male Manhattan residents in conducting this […]
NEW YORK-Willis Sands, an off duty paramedic saved a 2-year-old girl after she fell out of a window on the 5th floor by using his skills and training to stabilize her before she was sent to the hospital. NBC New York reports: “I looked down and I saw the baby shaking,” Sands said. “Blood underneath […]
BROOKLYN-A four-year-old boy, Jayelin Graham was killed after his step father, Damian Jones’ Cane Corso, an Italian dog trained for hunting wild boars, “Machete” bit his throat and mauled him to death. Graham and his brothers were left alone with the dog who was “trained to kill” according to neighbors who also claimed that the […]
A Sunday-school teacher and assistant special-education teacher was fired from her job at a Brooklyn elementary school for praying in the classroom. The New York Post reports: PS 224 assistant special-education teacher Anita Wooten-Francis, 52, claims she never hid her faith but took care not to influence kids. She worshiped in her classroom before or […]
NEW YORK — A huge crowd gathered outside the criminal court in Manhattan yesterday, in protest of the acquittal of two police officers charged with raping a drunken women in her apartment. Huffington Post reports: The protest was organized by a coalition of women’s rights groups, including Permanent Wave and Feministing. The purpose of the […]
NEW YORK — The watchful eyes of the Daily News caught the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife leaving his house for a mysterious trip to the doctor’s office. This comes shortly after The New York Post reported that the hotel maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault was living in an apartment […]
NEW YORK — After coughing up $1 million in bail money, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, gets to wait in the lap of luxury for a seven-count indictment on charges of attempted rape. The Daily News reports: The first floor boasts a guest suite with bath and private entrance, a […]
A Bronx man was arrested and spent two nights in jail over an incident that started when an officer observed him drinking a bottle wrapped in plastic in the passenger seat of a minivan. The Daily News reports: Brown was cradling a strawberry-kiwi fruit juice between his knees when Officer Eroilio Luna knocked on his […]
