Is Amanda Bynes a rap star in the making? The former Nickelodeon actress has been offered a record deal with a small East Coast hip-hop label to drop her very first album. Producer Daniel Herman of Chinga Chang Records, a New York-based music group founded in 2003, first told RadarOnline.com Monday that he extended an […]
CLEVELAND – Moments before entering a courtroom in Cleveland Wednesday, kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro may have revealed a different side of his personality. In the two times Castro has appeared in court since his May 6 arrest, his head has been down for the duration of his time in the courtroom. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – TV cameras caught LeBron James sitting on the Miami Heat bench with his eyes closed. Maybe he was asleep, whatever it was, James turned in an admittedly terrible effort in the Heat loss to the San Antonio Spurs in game three of the NBA Finals. The Spurs crushed Miami 113-77 to take […]
San Francisco (CNN) — Calling it “the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday unveiled an operating system for iPhones and iPads that will radically overhaul how users’ touchscreens look. The new system, iOS 7, was part of a two-hour presentation that included refreshed MacBook Airs, […]
NEWBURY, Ohio – Vandals struck a pro-life white cross display overnight at St. Helen’s Catholic Church in Newbury. According to Denver Sallee with HELP out of Geauga County, the vandals struck sometime overnight Tuesday, destroying 144 white crosses and a banner that brought awareness to abortions. The crosses and banner were displayed on the front […]
Despite the ugly backlash incited by a Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed race family, the ad’s six-year-old star is all smiles. Grace Colbert, the adorable actress who plays the daughter in the recent ad, sat down with her biological parents, Janet and Christopher Colbert, for an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday. When asked what Grace […]
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) boiled down the entire religion of Islam to “honor killings, beheadings [and] suicide bombings” in a message tweeted Monday night in response to a column by comedian Bill Cosby. Last week, Cosby wrote an op-ed in the New York Post encouraging African American communities to abandon apathy in an effort […]
While nearly three-quarters of Americans believe that legal recognition of gay marriage is inevitable and an increasing number of states are proving their belief to be true, a new documentary is telling a different story about support for same-sex marriage in the U.S. Produced by award-winning filmmaker and journalist Yoruba Richen, “The New Black” takes […]
I was amused this evening to catch a glimpse of a CNN show asking this question, as if either characterization is correct. In my judgment, based on what I know from the media thus far, Snowden is neither a hero nor a traitor, but he is most certainly a criminal who deserves serious punishment. I […]
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio – A humane officer shot five kittens outside a North Ridgeville house on Monday and the homeowner says her young children saw the whole thing happen. North Ridgeville humane officer Barry Accorti was dispatched to a house on Vista Lake Way after a resident complained about a family of cats living in […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An Alabama trucking company has filed a new class action lawsuit claiming Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J Travel Centers cheated it out of promised fuel rebates. Eagle Motor Freight, Inc is a Montgomery, Alabama, trucking company that said it was a party to a fuel rebate contract with Pilot Flying J since […]
Former talk show host Oprah Winfrey has made a huge donation, $12 million, to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In honor of the gift, the museum’s theater will be named after her. “I am so proud of African American History and its contributions to our nation as a whole,” Winfrey […]