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*Earlier we reported that former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to prison. His wife, former Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson was also sentenced Wednesday. She received a one year term for filing false joint federal income tax returns that understated the income the couple received. Sandra Jackson admitted in a guilty plea earlier […]
*It’s now official. Jesse Jackson Jr. is on his way to prison. Wednesday morning in Washington, Jackson was sentenced to 30 months behind bars using $750,000 in campaign money for living expenses, clothes and luxury items. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson scolded the convicted congressman, saying that he and his wife, Sandi Jackson, […]
Boy oh boy when it rains it most certainly pours! According to AllHipHop.com there’s a freaking monsoon in the ATL right now! The word in those Atlanta streets is that Stevie J. has a bun in the oven and it isn’t being baked by either Joseline or Mimi! Nope, allegedly there is a new pastry […]
An HIV-positive Cincinnati woman who pleaded to four counts of unlawful sexual contact with two minors will only serve one year in prison, the Cincinnati Inquirer reports. Candance Morris (pictured), 32, faced more than 30 years behind bars, when she stood before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Melba Marsh Monday. The actions that […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane crashed Wednesday morning in an open field just outside an airport in Birmingham, Ala. There were no homes in the immediate area of the crash, said Toni Herrera-Bast, a spokeswoman for Birmingham’s airport authority. The Airbus A300 plane crashed around 5 a.m. CDT on approach to the […]
So now that Jesse Jackson Jr. knows he’s headed to lockdown for illegally spending $750,000 in campaign funds, he has made it clear where he would prefer to serve his time.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A University of Alabama art student has filed a federal court suit alleging nude photos of her ended up on the Internet after she had work done on her computer at Best Buy. Attorneys for Nicole March said she filed the invasion of privacy suit Friday in federal court in Birmingham. […]
A 15-year-old boy in DeKalb County, Ga., needs a heart transplant, however doctors say he doesn’t qualify for the transplant list, WSB-TV 2 reports. Anthony Stokes (pictured) has an enlarged heart and has been given six months to live, but doctors have told his family that they cannot put him on the list because he has a […]
Prosecutors are going after two police officers who forced two drunk women to perform sexual acts on them.
*Whoa! Whoa! From the “You Can’t do that!” files comes this crazy story. A judge in Tennessee has taken it upon herself to change the first name of 7-month-old Messiah DeShawn Martin to “Martin.” And just what prompted the judge to do that you ask? Well, the judge in her infinite wisdom is declaring […]
The Missouri State Fair is facing backlash over a rodeo clown modeled after President Obama.
Today marks what would have been the 84th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King’s tireless work in the name of civil rights won…