Beyoncé’s former drummer who accused her of sexual harassment and doing witchcraft to harm her didn’t show up in court Thursday (Oct. 11), so her case has been dismissed. The Blast reports that since Kimberly Thompson was a no-show in court, her efforts to get a restraining order against Bey have gone down the drain. No one from the […]
A Brooklyn judge on Tuesday threw out the manslaughter conviction of New York City police officer Peter Liang for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man that sparked emotional protests from both sides of the controversial case. Liang, 28, could have faced up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter. Judge Danny Chun reduced the jury’s conviction to […]
*A judge has tossed out Chris Brown’s hit-and-run case after the alleged victim expressed a reluctance to press charges. The 24-year-old singer had been accused of smashing into a woman’s Mercedes-Benz with his Range Rover on May 21 and failing to give the driver his insurance documentation and identification, but after the alleged victim […]
(CNN) — A federal judge has dismissed the racial discrimination claims in a lawsuit filed by a former employee against Paula Deen, the celebrity chef’s representative said Monday. Some other aspects of the lawsuit are still pending. “We are pleased with the Court’s ruling today that Lisa Jackson’s claims of race discrimination have been dismissed,” […]
WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) – Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan was in town on Tuesday. The U.S. Congressman spoke before a packed house at the Westlake Recreation Center on Hilliard Boulevard. Shortly after the event started, a heckler was escorted out. The crowd drowned him out by chanting USA. Some Romney-Ryan supporters are hoping rallies like […]
C3H4E1A1T1E1R1. It’s a 12-point word if you played it in SCRABBLE. But now it’s a word that’s bringing a bit of shame and heckling after one of the top youth players in the country was kicked out of the National SCRABBLE Championship Tournament on Wednesday for cheating, according to John D. Williams Jr., the executive […]
JACKSON, Miss. — Did Kathryn Stockett use her brother’s African-American maid as the basis for a character in the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help?” For now, that question may go unanswered, by a court anyway. A Mississippi judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday in which Ablene Cooper alleged Stockett used her likeness without permission in a […]