By Yolanda Spivey Louisiana State Police are investigating the mysterious death of Victor White, III who local police alleged shot himself while he was handcuffed in the back of an Iberia Parish Sheriff officer’s vehicle this past Sunday. According to various reports, Police responded to a 911 call around 11:22am where they arrested White who was reportedly fighting with “others” in the 300 block of Lewis Street. After a brief…
By Andrew Scot Bolsinger A fraudulent season ticket scam targeted celebrities including Nick Cannon, husband of pop icon Mariah Carey and former NFL quarterback Warren Moon, according to police reports. Prosecutors have charged George French Jones of Los Angeles with 11 felony counts of fraud, grant theft and identity theft in connection with what they claim was a scheme selling season tickets and shares in the Miami Heat Basketball team,…
By Lechette Walker On the early morning of March 2, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ party had a tragic end at the CIAA Tournament weekend in Charlotte. Diddy, Future, and Fabolous were hosting an after party on the night that the game between Winston-Salem State University and Livingstone College occurred. There were several shots fired at the after party in the mist of the fun and partying following the game that night….
By: Stephanie Allen-Gobert Not in the ATL! Maybe in his last neighborhood in Calabasas, California, but 19 year- old pop star Justin Bieber is not welcome in the up market area in Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia. Bieber recently moved into a new rental property while he looks for a home to buy there, but residents are reportedly furious he is living in their exclusive neighborhood. A source told the gossip…
By David Bloodsaw Nothing is going right for the New York Knicks on or off the court. It’s enough to deal with the losses, Carmelo Anthony and even shoelace-untie-gate committed by J.R. Smith earlier this season, now a felony arrest. The Knicks lose Tuesday night to the Dallas Maverick, in the usual grand fashion Knicks style – with a last second ugly, ugly score by the Dallas Maverick’s Dirk Nowitzki….
By Andrew Scot Bolsinger The New York Court of Appeals overturned the murder conviction of 31-year-old Adrian Thomas, who was wrongly convicted of murdering his infant son in 2008, according to a WordPress blog called Criminal Injustice. Thomas will have to again stand trial, but his forced confession will not be allowed as evidence. Thomas was convicted of killing his four-month old son after he took the boy to the hospital…
by Afiya J. Watkins You know how we were told to keep our hands to ourselves as children? Well, apparently Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his fiancée Janay Palmer didn’t receive that memo. According to ESPN.com, the pair were arrested over the weekend and charged with simple assault. Sources say that they fought each other in an Atlantic City casino after a disagreement of some sort. The arresting police reported…
By Lechette Walker DeAndre Cortez Way, better known as Soulja Boy, has tweeted that he will be going to jail in 5 days. “5 more days until I go to jail. Appreciate everyone who was there for me while I needed y’all,” according to his twitter feed on February 15. The 23 year old rapper was pulled over in January for running a stop sign stated by multiple sources. When…
By Carolyn Hall Early Wednesday morning, famed model Tyson Beckford’s nephew, Dominic Whilby, was allegedly involved in a case of vehicular homicide. According to a report from the New York Daily News, Whilby crashed a truck into the side of a N.Y.C. bus which killed the driver. NYPD reports that Whilby, who was celebrating model Shanina Shaik’s birthday, was with his uncle partying at 1 Oak club in Greenwich Village….
In 2012, a man named Rudy Eugene became known as the “Causeway cannibal” after he left a homeless man blind during an unusually vicious and inexplicable attack. That was thought to be an anomaly, but another attack in Florida is raising more questions than answers. Anesson Joseph stripped off his clothes on Tuesday night and allegedly attempted to bite and chew on several passersby in the area. Joseph, a 28…
By April Taylor Local News 10 of Miami Beach, FL is reporting that they are in receipt of several photos that show a police dispatch supervisor for the city of Miami Beach sleeping while on the clock. According to a current employee of the police dispatch unit, sleeping on the job is not an unusual occurrence. The employee is also reporting that sleeping on the job has been a repetitive…
Reportedly, a boy from Brooklyn, New York, who went missing on January 16 and had not been seen or heard from since, had only been staying at his grandmother’s house, while his frantic mother, Tiffany Bryant and authorities were searching for him in vain. According to Bryant, her twelve-year-old son, Izayus was last seen over a week ago near a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Brooklyn, where she works. The 32-year-old…
By Britt L Just last month, comedian and actor Kevin Hart was very generous and donated $250,000 of his own money to purchase 500 computers for the struggling recreational centers and schools in his hometown of Philadelphia. About 300 of those computers went to schools and 200 to rec centers across Philly. To the cities surprise, some of those computers have already been stolen from a Southwest Philadelphia Recreation Center….
by Barry Burch Jr. It took six months to receive a verdict in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial; and now, three months after that the four jurors involved are saying they feel cheated. Why? The outcome is not to their liking. They claim to have been misled by the verdict form. When the trial came to a close in November, it was AEG Live, a concert promoter hired by Jackson’s family that was victorious. His mother and children are…
By: Britt L A police officer from the Metropolitan police department has been arrested after being accused of taking inappropriate photos of a 15-year-old while on duty. Officer Marc Washington, whose been a serving police officer in Washington, D.C. since 2006, was arrested Monday shortly after the unidentified teen’s mother called the police, according to NBC Washington. Washington reportedly first made contact with the family when the girl’s mother reported her…