The “For the Love of Ray J” vixen was detained by L.A police after a fire erupted in her apartment building. Ms. Leon is well known for her erratic behavior is under “observation” as investigators determine if there is enough evidence to charge her with arson.
Here is a positive story about our youth. Tony Hansberry, a 15-year-old high school student is showing doctors a new way to perform surgery. That’s right, he’s only 15-years-old and still in high school.
Within minutes thousands of people passed the photo on to their friends and NBC removed the sign. Quest who is a musician on the Jimmy Fallon late night show discovered the sign while entering the cafeteria to eat lunch.
While people debate if fried chicken and collard greens is an acceptable tribute for Black History Month, Leslie Calhoun, the chef who created the menu defends her decision.
What do you think? Fitting tribute or terrible display?
A Florida woman filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming that she was victimized in a hotel on July 4, 2007. She said Irvin raped her as another man held her down against her will.
Irvin, through his attorney, denies the allegations. No court date has been set. No criminal charges have been filed.
Irvin won three Super Bowls as a member of the Dallas Cowboys.
A 23-year-old mother of a 4 month-old baby said she robbed a bank to get milk money for her child.
Inequa Rushing and her boyfriend Waylon McDonald face a long list of federal charges for their involvement in a Dallas bank robbery.
From CBSNews.com
Federal officials say that on Jan. 19 Rushing, 23, went into a Comerica bank in Dallas while her boyfriend, Waylon McDonald, 32, acted as lookout. She approached the teller and handed her a note that said she had a gun and wanted money.
The teller handed over the cash – with a dye pack surprise inside. As Rushing and McDonald sped off the dye pack exploded and Rushing threw it and the money out the window.
Problem was that the money was in her purse along with her ID and address. Police eventually found the purse and arrested the couple at their South Dallas home Jan. 20.
Rushing and McDonald were indicted (Feb.3) by a federal grand jury for bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery. Dallas police Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther said there could be further charges of child endangerment too because the dye pack released “noxious fumes and dye” into the car and they were driving recklessly.
Congratulations to Mitchell and Mattie Atkins of Philadelphia, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary front family and friends during a small ceremony at Deliverance Evangelistic Church.
Donessa Davis was the victim of a sex crime but a Wisconsin judge showed leniency to the assailants.
Terese Ziemann, Michelle Belliveau, Wendy Sewell, and Tracy-Hood Davis, Donessa’s wife, conspired to lour him into a hotel room. The women overpowered him and glued his penis to his stomach and get off with a probation.
What would have happened to Mr. Davis if he glued a woman’s breasts together? Should the ladies serve jail time?
The death toll in the Haiti quake has topped 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets.
More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by “a disaster on a planetary scale” and detailed the tragic toll suffered by his people.
“There are more than 200,000 people who have been clearly identified as people who are dead,” he told AFP, adding another 300,000 injured had been treated, 250,000 homes had been destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost.
At least 4,000 amputations have also been carried out due to horrific crush injuries — a shocking figure which is likely to strain the impoverished nation’s already meager resources for years to come.
Award winning singer,songwriter and actress Jill Scott faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit from her former label , Hidden Beach Records, for allegedly not living up to her contractual obligations.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by L.A.-based Hidden Beach Records, claims that the label and its founder, Steve McKeever, helped launch Scott’s career and nurtured her into a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter but was unceremoniously dumped in October after a 10-plus year relationship.
“Hidden Beach is shocked by her decision not only because Scott has apparently chosen to leave the Hidden Beach family,” the complaint reads, “but also because Scott is contractually required to deliver three more albums to Hidden Beach.”
The complaint alleges causes of action for breach of contract and damages owed under a section of California’s Labor Code sometimes known as the “De Havilland Law.” Named after actress Olivia De Havilland’s successful fight in the ’40s against long-term studio deals, it provides that talent cannot be bound by personal services contracts for longer than seven years.
Hidden Beach isn’t disputing that Scott’s deal violated the seven-year rule but the law carves out a requirement that certain recording artists who wish to terminate their lengthy deals must reimburse their labels in the amount the labels would have received under the terms of the contracts.
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