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VIA: CNN A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 was in custody Sunday after surrendering to police in Connecticut, a law enforcement source said. Ann Pettway was arrested after she contacted a Bridgeport, Connecticut, police officer via Facebook from Stratford, Connecticut, the source said. Bridgeport police spokesman Detective […]
Ever heard the old saying ‘fake it ’til you make it’?. Well it is now a whole lot easier to look the part, with the current explosion of rental websites, where you can rent everything from handbags, designer outfits and jewelry, to home and office furniture. Now you don’t need to resort to buying outfits […]
New York — The fake mom targeted by the FBI in the sensational kidnapping of Carlina White is a drug-addled drifter with a lengthy rap sheet that includes busts for embezzlement, forgery and theft, authorities said yesterday. Ann Pettway, a shadowy figure who used multiple aliases and birth dates as she traveled from Connecticut to […]
Haiti — When Jean-Claude Duvalier suddenly emerged from exile last weekend, saying he was here “to help” his devastated homeland, fears immediately spread across the country that the former dictator had come to stake a new claim to power. But Mr. Duvalier’s risky return home from France may have been driven by another motivation: money. […]
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest grocer, joins first lady Michelle Obama in her fight against childhood obesity. Wal-Mart says it will reformulate thousands of products to make them healthier and push its suppliers to do the same. The company plans to reduce sodium and added sugars in some items, build stores in poor areas that don’t […]
As the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, one of the oldest and largest Holiness-Pentecostal denominations in the world, with an estimated membership of six million people in fifty seven nations across the globe, I write in support of the law and urge Congress not to repeal the law or pass any […]
Philadelphia fire authorities say one worker is dead in a gas main explosion and fire that also injured five people, three critically. The incident also prompted the evacuation of dozens of residents.
Lexus has released a new line of commercials that revolve around the theme “the hard way.” In one such commercial titled Chain, Lexus attaches cables to an LS sedan and raises it off the ground. The idea is to show you how strong the chassis is because it can support its own weight when lifted […]
Philadelphia — Antonio Rodriguez, the suspect in the murders of three women in Kensington, has confessed to the murders, police sources said today. Rodriguez, 22, gave a statement to police but has not been charged in the killings. Police arrested him Monday on outstanding bench warrants, hours after a DNA match in a database identified […]
New York — An infant kidnapped 24 years ago from a city hospital improbably resurfaced this month to reunite with her family, resolving one of the NYPD’s most perplexing cold cases. Carlina White – last seen by her biological parents as a feverish 3-week-old infant – met her mother, father and other now-ecstatic relatives over […]
Text from one of our RadioOne stations, The Buzz 100.3 in Cincinnati Cincinnati — Gladys and Jamie Scott, recently freed from a Mississippi prison, came on the TJMS this morning to disscuss life after prison and the conditions of their release. The Scott sisters, who have been imprisoned for 16 years, were released on Friday […]
CAMDEN, N.J. — Some firefighters turned in their helmets and police officers their badges Tuesday as part of deep municipal layoffs destined to further erode the quality of life in Camden, already one of the nation’s most impoverished and crime-ridden cities. About 335 workers, representing one-sixth of the local government work force, lost their jobs, […]