Source: USA Today Chuck Muncie, a three-time Pro Bowl running back and a first-round pick of the New Orleans Saints whose career was shortened by drug abuse, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the age of 60, the Saints announced. Muncie, who played for the Saints from 1976-80 and for the San Diego Chargers [...]
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press. The news cooperative filed a letter of protest on Monday calling the broad search of records “unprecedented.” (May 13)
Source: AP / USA Today WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls [...]
Police say gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, wounding at least 19 people. Officials hope surveillance video will be the key to identifying the suspects.
Source: James O’Rourke / The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News / USA Today WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico on Thursday, a close family friend said. Shabazz, 28, is perhaps most widely known for intentionally starting a fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm [...]
Source: Richard Wolf / USA Today WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court may be on the verge of declaring victory in the fight against racial discrimination. Two cases nearing decisions by the court within weeks threaten to uproot affirmative action programs at the nation’s public colleges and universities and weaken a federal statute that guards against discriminatory [...]
Source: John Bacon / USA Today A jury in Phoenix found Jodi Arias guilty of first degree murder after three days of deliberations in a sensational trial A crowd of several hundred people waited outside the courthouse for word of the verdict to be announced. Arias, 32, was accused of killing ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in the [...]
Source: Maria Puente / USA Today It’s always interesting to learn what the stars might have been had they not become actors, and in the case of Kerry Washington it’s pretty far from her current reality: clinical psychologist. Yes, that’s the career she thought she’d pursue, she tells Elle magazine, where she’s on the cover of the June [...]
Source: Hadley Malcolm / USA Today The Senate passed a bill Monday night aimed at making it easier for states to collect sales taxes for online purchases, but its final prospects remain uncertain. Even so small online retailers are already thinking about the bill’s potentially large impact on their operations. Nancy Mashragi would seriously consider [...]
Source: AP / USA Today NEWARK, N.J. — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. She was also sentenced Monday in Newark to three additional months of home confinement. The 37-year-old South Orange resident pleaded guilty last year in [...]
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