Judge Stops N.Y.C. Soda Ban! Mere hours before the law to ban over-sized soft drinks from the New York City area was to take effect, a State Supreme Court judge halted the ruling. I honestly WAS cool with it……until I found out the ban applied to movie theaters too. Who wants to pay $6.00 a pop for a 9 ounce soda and 7 ounces of ice? Story Below: NEW YORK — A judge struck down New York City’s pioneering ban on [...]
1 Day Parolee Kills Grandparents? KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON – Police in King County, Wash., say a man released from prison Friday is the prime suspect in the deaths of his grandparents, who were killed hours after Michael Boysen finished a prison stint for burglary. Boysen had threatened to kill his grandparents before, police said at a news conference Monday, and allegedly did so Friday, the night the elderly couple hosted a welcome-home party for the ex-con. The rest of the [...]
Boxer Murdered Outside Club UNIVERSITY CITY, ST. LOUIS – An eruption of gun violence outside a University City nightclub on Wednesday night claimed the life of Preston Freeman, a 20-year-old boxer whose coaches say had a very bright future ahead of him. “He was the most talented kid we had in the gym,” Jimmie Howell, head coach of the North County Athletic Association, tells Daily RFT this morning. “We really expected him to go big in the pros…. We never [...]
12 Injured In Drive By Shooting! At least twelve and possibly more people were injured during a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C. early this morning. Authorities say that around 2 am this morning shots were fired by someone in an old blue BMW. The gunman allegedly opened fire on a group of people who were standing outside of an apartment building that resembles the projects allegedly. All of the victims were conscious and breathing when they were found, police said. [...]
Ex-Mayor Kilpatrick Found Guilty DETROIT, MICHIGAN — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders. Jurors convicted Kilpatrick of a raft of crimes, including a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was portrayed during a five-month trial as an unscrupulous politician who took bribes, rigged contracts and lived far beyond his means while in office until fall 2008. Prosecutors said Kilpatrick ran a “private profit [...]
Death Threat For Black News Lady Writer and Democratic strategist Zerlina Maxwell is speaking out about the ugly responses she received on social media after appearing on Fox News last week to talk about sexual assault and guns. Via The Grio reports: Maxwell, who appears frequently on Fox and is also a contributor to theGrio, has written often about what she calls unfair cultural messages to women, instructing them on how to avoid being assaulted, rather than focusing on the [...]
Is Derrick Rose Ready To Play? It was reported on Friday that Chicago Bulls star guard Derrick Rose has been cleared to play. However, Rose feels that he is not ready and the latest report is that he still has issues with his hamstrings that he says are holding him back. But was telling fans that Rose, the NBA’s 2010-11 MVP, was cleared to play the right move when he doesn’t feel that he’s ready to step on the [...]
Ex Boxer Tony Martin Fatally Shot PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - Retired boxer Tony Martin was fatally shot in an altercation with a visitor at one of his rental properties and police are searching for a suspect, authorities said Monday. The 52-year-old Martin, a former welterweight, was shot during an argument at the home in the city’s Hunting Park section on Friday, police said. Martin’s niece, Robyn Peete, said her uncle had gone to the home to collect rent and found a person [...]
Elder Woman Dragged Off Train! Story Below: Miami-Dade, FL – An 82-year-old Florida woman appears to be preparing for a legal battle against transit officials in Miami after video surfaced online of her being pulled to the ground and out of a local train. WPLG-TV reported on Friday that an attorney representing Emma Anderson has filed a Freedom of Information Act request against Miami-Dade Transit asking for their policies regarding dealing with elderly passengers. The request could be the first legal [...]
Parents Turn Teens In For Stealing They were caught on camera, a pair of teenage boys eyeing a young girl’s wallet. After watching the 9-year-old girl pay, surveillance footage shows, they went outside the Jaquez Mini Market in East Germantown. There, they waited for her to exit, police said, based on views from outdoor cameras. About 8:30 a.m. Friday, they approached the third grader as she left the store at Wakefield and East Ashmead Streets. They approached her, police said, [...]
Baby Shoots Itself And Lives MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE – A 3-year-old Tennessee boy is being called “the luckiest kid on earth” after miraculously surviving shooting himself in the head Saturday night when a family member left a loaded firearm on a bathroom counter. The shooting happened at a home located at 1210 Woodcrest Drive in Manchester at around 7 p.m., after the toddler’s aunt and mother returned from a shopping trip. His aunt told police she had to use the bathroom, [...]
Gun Drawn At Walmart Over $1 CRAWFORDVILLE, FLORIDA – There’s the kind of extreme couponing you see on that TLC show, and then there’s the kind of extreme couponing that happens in Florida Walmarts. The main difference apparently being that the latter involves handguns. Mary Frances Alday, a 61-year-old, was arrested after she pulled out a handgun at a Crawfordville Walmart because the store refused to accept a dollar-off coupon. A sheriff’s deputy ended up having to use a Taser [...]
Mom Punished Son With Stun Gun A 32-year-old mother from Pflugerville, Texas has been arrested for allegedly tasing her 14-year old son as punishment on multiple occasions. Kimira Hysaw’s 4-year old daughter went to school last week and blew up the spot with regards to her big brother getting in trouble and being tased by their mother. When questioned by police she went on to say that the taser was kept in “mommy’s purse”. Further investigation showed that Kimira had [...]
Amare Stoudemire Out For 6 Wks? NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Amare Stoudemire needs surgery on his right knee and is expected to miss six weeks, a stunning blow to the New York Knicks as they chase the Atlantic Division title. Stoudemire, who had been playing well off the bench, will have the procedure to remove tissue within the week, the Knicks said Saturday before their game against the Utah Jazz. Stoudemire missed the first 30 games after having the [...]
Canada & Mexico Brawl At WBC! PHOENIX, ARIZONA — Here’s a possible new rule to add to the World Baseball Classic. In the first round of tournament play, no pitcher should be allowed to throw more than 65 punches in a game. What a thing. Saturday’s WBC game between Canada and Mexico quickly descended into the WBCM — the World Baseball Cage Match — when a ninth-inning bunt single sparked a long and violent benches-clearing brawl with players tackling and [...]
16-Year Old Fatally Shot By Police A 16-year-old boy from East Flatbush Brooklyn, New York was fatally shot by police officers late Saturday after the teen allegedly pointed a revolver at plain clothes officers. Police allege that when the teen noticed the officers he adjusted his waistband which is what prompted them to approach him and when they did he allegedly turned to them with the gun in hand. Both cops squeezed off several rounds at Gray, who was hit [...]
Chris Brown 911 Call Released BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – Chris Brown calls himself “Christopher” when he’s scared … at least judging by the 911 call that was placed moments after the singer totaled his Porsche in a paparazzi chase last month. Minutes after the February 9 crash, a witness called 911 … and told the operator Brown’s car had smashed into a wall in an alley in Beverly Hills. The operator asked to speak with Brown (who identified himself as [...]
Man’s Random Gunfire Kills Kid ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota man accused of killing a 9-year-old boy by standing in the street and firing indiscriminately at passing cars told investigators he did it because people had been waking him up by revving their engines in front of his home, according to a search warrant affidavit. When police arrested 34-year-old Nhan Lap Tran after the February rampage, they found a note in his bedroom that read, “Random Kill, Fake Plates,” [...]
240 Yrs For Terrorizing Bar-Goers NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A heavily-armed man who held an East Village bar hostage in 2002 – firing shots and dousing patrons in kerosene – was sentenced to 240 years in prison Friday. Steve Johnson, 45, was found guilty on Feb. 4 of the horrific kidnapping stunt at Bar Veloce for the second time — the first guilty verdict in 2007 was overturned on a technicality. Booking photo for deranged former barber Steven Johnson. [...]
State Trooper Shot & Killed On I-85 DINWIDDIE, VIRGINIA- A Virginia State Police trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop off Interstate 85 Thursday and a suspect was arrested after exchanging fire with another trooper, authorities said. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Master Trooper Junius A. Walker, 63, was shot multiple times. Walker, who was patrolling alone as most troopers do, called for backup after being fired upon just before 1:30 p.m. in southeastern Virginia. The second [...]
Woman Kidnapped From Driveway A 69-year-old woman was taken from her driveway at gunpoint y three men in Frankfort Square, Illinois. The trio allegedly forced the woman to withdraw money from different ATM’s before she was kicked to the curb near an Interstate. Two of the men are still at large but the third has turned himself and snitched on the other two allegedly. Bond for the man in custody is $1 million and police know the identities of the [...]
Study: Drinking Energizes Brain Have another drink or three, it might just give you energy. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation finds that heavy drinking boosts levels of acetate in the brain that translates into extra energy for the body, and may help explain why kicking an addiction to alcohol is so difficult. Yale University researcher Graeme Mason, the co-author of the study, looked at people who consumed at least eight drinks per week and found [...]
8 School Buses Stolen/Scrapped A 40-year veteran of the school bus business, Greg Bonnett had never heard of anything like this: Eight of his full-size, 40-foot-long yellow buses were missing when workers arrived at the Far South Side yard early Friday. But the 5:30 a.m. call with that news wasn’t the biggest surprise of Bonnett’s day. GPS units aboard the buses indicated the vehicles were on the Southwest Side. Bonnett headed in that direction and wound up at a South [...]
Did NY Wife Put Hit On Husband? NEW YORK, NEW YORK – An ironworker who was fatally shot in his Brooklyn home may have been the victim of a vicious murder-for-hire plot designed by his wife and her boyfriend, the Daily News has learned. Omar Murray, 37, took a bullet to his chest at his Lott Ave. home in Brownsville in what initially appeared to be a botched robbery on Feb. 24, law enforcement sources said. But investigators soon learned [...]
Hipster Con Woman Strikes Again New York appears to have another hipster grifter. The petite woman caught on camera last year sporting hipster glasses and coolly walking out of a New York bank with $2,000 from someone else’s account has apparently struck again. For a second time, police say the woman, a dark-haired white female who looks to be between 25 and 30 years old, is suspected of using another person’s ATM card to withdraw money. According to police, the [...]
Lady Shot Coworker & Fled Scene SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – A woman suspected of shooting and critically wounding a 65-year-old man inside a Seattle parks department building was arrested at her home Friday, hours after fleeing the scene of the shooting. The shooting in north Seattle prompted the city to shut down all community centers and put nearby schools on high alert. The woman, a parks employee, had keys to city facilities, deputy police chief Nick Metz said. Police initially characterized [...]
Teen Dies After Russian Roulette TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN – A teenager died Friday, two days after being shot in the face while playing a game of Russian roulette, police said. Sixteen-year-old Brandon Kuiper and 18-year-old Richard Usher Jr. were playing with a .22 caliber handgun in Kuiper’s basement bedroom in the 3900 block of Leonard Street in Tallmadge Township. Kuiper was shot “from close range,” according to the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department. Usher was arrested Wednesday and arraigned Thursday on one [...]
Thief Put Pics On Victims FB Page A thief from the Bronx stole a woman’s iPhone and then posted pictures of himself smoking weed on the victims Facebook page! Police are looking for him and thanks to this brilliant move, it wont be long before they find him! Story Below: BRONX, NEW YORK – This guy is about to be Facebooked — and he only has himself to blame. Cops are hot on the heels of [...]
Female Jail Guard Got That Work Roy Smith from Lowndes County, Georgia was incarcerated in prison sentenced t0 60 years for shooting his girlfriend and daughter in 2010. He recently asked for a new trial and was transferred to the county jail to go before a judge. But last Thursday Roy snapped and attacked a female prison guard who was delivering mail. He allegedly beat her upside the head with the telephone, punched her in the face and broke her [...]
$1M In Weed Near Air Force Base $1M of pot on a beach in Los Angeles sounds very rare. The pot, however, washed ashore near Vandenberg Air Force Base on Thursday. On March 7, LAist reported that the pot may have come in on a boat which was found on the beach without an engine. Homeland Security is now handling this case, looking into the mystery. “Homeland Security … removed the piles of pot from the sand. They had been covered in [...]
Man Shot TV Host & Self To Death HELENA, MONTANA — A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show “A Rifleman’s Journal” in an apparent jealous rage while the TV personality was visiting the shooter’s wife, police said Friday. Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative’s house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill [...]
Prison Guard Got Sex For Cookies A corrections officer has been charged with providing a 22-year-old female inmate with homemade chocolate chip cookies in exchage for sexual contact, police charge. According to a probable cause affidavit, Abner Canda–a 58-year-old guard at the county jail in Everett, Washington–engaged in several sexual interations with the inmate, who is only identified by the initials “C.D.” The woman told investigators that, “I showed him my breasts, willingly for some food” last May. After being released [...]
Vultures Invade NJ Neighborhood BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY — A vulture invasion has residents of one New Jersey neighborhood anxiously gazing skyward and contemplating extreme measures to disperse the feathered scavengers haunting their town. More than 100 vultures have been gathering in and circling above the Martinsville section of Bridgewater, frightening residents who have appealed to federal officials for help. “They are very scary because I walk every day for health reasons, and sometimes when I walk out there they start circling,” Patti [...]
Former NBA Player Lived in Filth SAMMAMISH, WASHINGTON – It wasn’t the the pile of beer bottles or the smashed glass on the fireplace. It wasn’t even the El Camino sitting in the driveway, unable to move because it has no engine. It was the smell. “The first thing you get when you walk in the door is kind of whiff of whatever is festering in here,” said Jessica Ko-Dalzell. She and her husband Eric now own a mansion on [...]
Michael Jordan Getting Married Bow your heads in mourning black ladies….you have lost another high-profile black male to the Latina culture. Ex-NBA great Michael Jordan applied for a marriage license yesterday, apparently preparing to wed his fiance, model Yvette Prieto. Take solace though ladies, it was a black woman, Juanita Vanoy (I think she dropped Jordan), who held him down at his high-jumping, tongue wagging peak, and she ended up clearing around $168 million….NO PRE-NUP! If and when he does get divorced again, I [...]
Mom Fatally Shot In Front Of Kid DETROIT, MICHIGAN – A child watched as her mother was murdered in an abandoned Detroit home, according to police. Three people were found fatally shot this morning in the home on the 11300 block of Coyle on Detroit’s west side, police said. Two children, ages 1 and 5, were found in the home unharmed, police said. Police said two women and a man – ages 25, 20 and 24, respectively – were found [...]
Squatters Will Not Leave Mansion! A family of squatters have broken into a $3 million mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and have refused to vacate! The family claims to be Moorish American Nationals declaring that the property belongs to them because of that fact. The mansion was foreclosed in August 2011 and was empty for 18 months before the family bumrushed the property and chained the gates! The bank ordered the family to be out of the home by Wednesday but they [...]
Victim Turns Tricks Pimp Cleared BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – Prosecutors dropped all pimping charges against a Brooklyn man today after they discovered his alleged victim was still turning tricks. Robert Pannell, 36, had been charged with forcing a 17-year-old girl into prostitution in 2011, but all promoting prostitution and sex trafficking charges were dropped when prosecutors announced they had discovered sex-for-sale ads his accuser had posted on Backpage.com. “We discovered a problem with the credibility of the witness and brought [...]
Lady Shot & Killed After Argument 31-year-old Lashondra Collier of Orlando, Florida was shot and killed at her home in the Timberleaf apartment complex on Monday night by a man police believe had argued with her earlier in the day. Police say that Lashondra and the shooter Maurice H. Frye knew each other but did not divulge the nature of their relationship. Maurice H. Frye was arrested Monday on second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon [...]
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