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Via LA Times: A Sunday school teacher was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and killing her daughter’s 8-year-old playmate, Sandra Cantu of Tracy, Calif., after admitting to police that she owned the suitcase in which Sandra’s body was found, authorities said Saturday. Melissa Chantel Huckaby, 28, the granddaughter of a pastor, was taken into custody […]

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From Essence.com: Is 35 really the new 25? For some women over 35 looking to have children, this just might be the case. Let’s imagine we know a highly educated woman in her late 30’s who is thinking of having children. But unlike days of old our girl is not looking at a wedding ring […]

   To Buy: 1.  Moderately Priced Consumer Electronics Walmart still isn’t the best place to shop for a top-of-the-line television. But its focus on bringing in more big brands has made it an attractive option for shoppers seeking consumer electronics in the sub-$1,000 price range. Last year, for example, some WalMart stores offered a 50-inch […]

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Yesterday, Tiger Woods backed out of the The Players Championship citing a bad neck injury. According to Golf.com/AP: Tiger fears his injury might be a bulging disk in his upper back.“I’ve been playing with a bad neck for about a month,” Woods said. After hitting his drive well to the right on the seventh hole, […]

From NYPost.com: His bad-boy ways got disgraced Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress sent to prison for gun possession, and now the jailed Super Bowl hero is trying to do some good. An anger-management program that Burress got officials to initiate at the upstate Oneida Correctional Facility is being widely received by fellow inmates. Click here […]

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From NYDailyNews.com: Black politicians and church leaders blasted cops Sunday for storming a Crown Heights church during services to pursue a suspect in a traffic incident. Police chased Kendall Jones, 18, into the Shiloh Seventh-Day Adventist Church Friday night after he dumped a stolen car and fled. “The police violated the sanctity of this house […]

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// Business owners are an integral part of the Black community. They help uplift our people economically, and serve as role models so that future generations know they can achieve real success as entrepreneurs. Are you a Black business owner making an impact in your community? Know someone who is? Tell them about this great […]

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From ChicagoBreakingNews.com: About 700 students gathered in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters this morning to protest drastic budget cuts which they say they are already starting to feel. “It started with JV sports, then they started cutting teachers – What’s next?” asked Somyiah Nance, a 15-year-old freshman at Whitney Young High School. The students […]

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// From The New York Daily News Former Giants great Lawrence Taylor was arrested Thursday in Rockland County in connection with the reported rape of a 15-year-old girl, sources said. Taylor allegedly beat and sexually assaulted the girl and has been charged with third-degree rape, the Journal News was reporting. He will be arraigned Thursday […]

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VIA AOL BLACKVOICES: Phillip Sciarello, a publisher and part owner of the Smithtown Messenger in Long Island, is defending his newspaper after a picture appeared that some believe to be a racist stereotype of the First Family. The picture depicts President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as characters from “Sanford and Son.” The public backlash […]

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(Courtesy of Chron.com) ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — With success uncertain, a boat carrying a 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption designed to siphon off the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico arrived at the scene Thursday in an unprecedented attempt to cap a blown-out well spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons a day. Another boat with […]

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// From the NY Times: WASHINGTON — American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American […]