September 8th, 2008
More legal problems find Gary Coleman. Police are investigating a weekend incident during which former “Diff’rent Strokes” TV star Gary Coleman allegedly struck a man with his truck after an argument. Find out more at BET.com/News.
Rappers make $100,000 Xbox wager. The Game is a better Madden football player than Bow Wow - and he’ll have $100,000 for charity to prove it. Bow Wow tells TMZ.com that he lost the Xbox video competition to Game. The pair had recently made a friendly wager, with the loser’s cash going to those in greater need.
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July 18th, 2008

Gov. Bobby Jindal shot down a plan to create another African-American judgeship
Two Louisiana state lawmakers are accusing Bobby Jindal, the nation’s first governor of east Indian descent, of an African-American problem. State Sen. Derrick Shepherd and state Rep. Girod Jackson, both African Americans and Democrats, are angry that Jindal has vetoed a plan that would have created another minority judgeship in Jefferson Parish, a jurisdiction with a history of racial strife. “We got knifed in the back,” Shepherd said Wednesday on the steps of the Jefferson Parish Courthouse. “It just begs the question, ‘What does the governor have against the African-American community – in particular, the African-American community in Jefferson Parish.’” Of the 16 judges in the 24th Judicial Court in Jefferson Parish, two of them are African Americans who were elected from a majority-Black district. The state legislature passed a bill, introduced by Shepherd, that would have created a third minority judgeship, but Jindal shot it down, saying, “I have received several veto requests from officials representing voters in the impacted area. For instance, Speaker Tucker, Representative Templet and Representative Wooten describe the bill as ‘patently unfair.’” The governor and lawmakers critical of the bill say the matter should be shelved until after the 2010 census. “This bill, in the form that it reached the governor, is an agreement that we made in between all legislators,” said Jackson. “Maybe some now feel that it was unfair, but that’s part of the process.” Shepherd now wants the NAACP and civil rights attorneys sue the state, forcing it to establish another minority judgeship. “We have 31-percent minority population (in Jefferson Parish) and it’s growing,” he told Louisiana station WWLTV. “In an attempt to get us all together to come in one accord, we tried to do the right thing, but it was blocked in the end.”
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