VIA: New York Times Each had crossed the border years before, smuggled across the desert by a coyote, never imagining the journey would lead to a drab and dusty clinic on the ninth floor of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Some knew before the crossing that they had diabetes or lupus or high blood pressure, […]
VIA: AJC.com Atlanta mayoral candidates Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed dueled Sunday over endorsements, water meter lids, property taxes and the best way for the city to get more state funding. The latest battle was over Reed’s suggestion that Norwood, a two-term city councilwoman, tried to avoid an important City Council vote on March 20, […]
Michael Jackson won his 23rd American Music Award for Rock/Pop Male, setting the record for the most AMAs won by a single artist. On Sunday night the late King of Pop Michael Jackson beat out Maxwell and Jamie Foxx to win his 22nd American Music Award, this time in the Soul/R&B Male category. Wearing one […]
VIA: CNN.com A woman accused of cutting in line at a Wal-Mart, shoving merchandise and assaulting police officers will plead guilty to disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors. Under the agreement — reached after the jury received the case for deliberations — Heather Ellis will plead guilty to disturbing the peace and resisting […]
VIA: CNN.com The Senate Ethics Committee issued a letter Friday clearing embattled Illinois Sen. Roland Burris of any legal wrongdoing. The committee admonished Burris, however, for failing to meet “a much higher standard of conduct.” “The committee found that you should have known that you were providing incorrect, inconsistent, misleading, or incomplete information to the […]
VIA: AccessAtlanta.com Despite rumors that Sheree Whitfield might not be coming back, Kandi Burruss said last night at the opening of her new unisex boutique Tags that Bravo is negotiating with all of five of them for a third season. She wasn’t aware if anybody has signed a contract yet, so there are no guarantees all […]
VIA: CNN.com Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. “Oprah will be ending her talk show,” Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday. “She will be speaking about it on tomorrow’s live show.” The show will air live from […]
VIA: CNN.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a sweeping health care bill Wednesday that would expand health insurance coverage to 30 million more Americans at an estimated cost of $849 billion over 10 years. Reid and other Senate Democrats cited an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for the coverage and cost figures. […]
VIA: New Orleans Times-Picayune In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.’s 156-page decision could […]
VIA: CNN.com This much isn’t in dispute: Heather Ellis cut in line at a Wal-Mart nearly three years ago. But the accounts of what happened next vary, depending on whom you ask — and has divided this economically struggling Missouri town of 11,000 along racial lines. Ellis, then a college student with no criminal history, […]
Check out these clips of Janet Jackson’s interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts. The special was called “In the Spotlight.”
VIA: AJC.com The former fiancee of a cast member of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” died from a rare trait of sickle cell anemia that became fatal because of a fight he had in the parking lot of a strip club. Still, according to a report from the Fulton County medical examiner that was provided […]