YOUNGSTOWN — A rock at the center of Youngstown State University’s campus was tagged with pro-ISIS messages overnight Monday, The Vindicator reports. The rock was painted with three messages reading, “YSU supports ISIS,” “We are coming,” and “France deserves destruction.” The Vindicator also reported that the FBI was contacted and that the university does not believe […]

Eddie Murphy refused to play Bill Cosby during SNL 40 because “there’s nothing funny about it. If you get up there and you crack jokes about him, you’re just hurting people. You’re hurting him. You’re hurting his accusers.” He added, “I was like, ‘Hey, I’m coming back to SNL for the anniversary, I’m not turning […]

As Eazy-E’s legacy begins to ignite, many fans have been reminded that the 31-year-old rapper died in 1995 due to complications from AIDS. As it’s still a sore subject to this day, it’s puzzling as to why Suge Knight thought it was funny to make light of the rapper’s death in an interview in 2004. […]

Jamie Foxx came under some fire when he made a joke at the expense of Bruce Jenner during the iHeartRadio Music Awards this past weekend. The…

  Over the weekend, an old video surfaced of a younger Justin Bieber telling a group of friends a racist joke where he used the N word. In the video posted by TMZ, Bieber asks his friends, “Why are black people afraid of chainsaws?” Bieber responds “Run N*gger, N*gger, N*gger!” The pop star took to Twitter and released […]

STEUBENVILLE — Attorney Dennis McNamara, who represents Michael Nodiano, the teen seen in the 12-minute video, says his client was not involved in the incident and regrets saying what he said on the video. McNamara called a press conference Monday afternoon. McNamara said “..there’s a reason the words ‘young’ and ‘stupid’ often appear in the […]

CLEVELAND – A video released this week is drawing widespread attention for its connection to a controversial rape trial in the city of Steubenville. The vigilante hacktivist group known as Anonymous posted the 12-minute video of Steubenville High School students joking and laughing about the alleged rape of a girl. One of the teen boys […]

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify something regarding last night’s Emmy broadcast. I did not attend the Emmys due to a long-standing commitment to Tony and Susan Bennett’s Exploring the Arts benefit, which I had agreed to host several months ago. In the intervening time, the Emmy telecast was moved from its previous […]

by Tom Lyden/ FOX 9 News Lake Crystal, Minn. – Some people south of the Metro are outraged by what a newspaper editor wrote in a small, local paper.  He insists it was a joke but admits it was printed in “bad taste.”