Update 10:00 a.m June 7th The scandal just worsens for New York Congressman Anthony Weiner as reports are surfacing that he offered porn star Ginger Lee tips on how to lie about their sexting scandal, according to TMZ. “Weiner and former porn star Ginger Lee exchanged scores of sexual emails over a long period of […]
NEW YORK CITY — Fatoumata Diallo, a 21-year-old Bronx woman, was struck and killed by a train after she fainted and fell onto the tracks. NBC reports: Police say that 21-year-old Bronx resident Fatoumata Diallo fainted, possibly due to the heat, just as a northbound No. 6 train pulled into the station, and was “cut […]
NEW YORK-African-Americans pay a lot more for auto-insurance than drivers of other races according to a new study. The study was for male drivers in New York, where auto insurance tends to be very high in poor and working class neighborhoods. The San Francisco Gate reports: 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org surveyed 600 male Manhattan residents in conducting this […]
NEW YORK-Willis Sands, an off duty paramedic saved a 2-year-old girl after she fell out of a window on the 5th floor by using his skills and training to stabilize her before she was sent to the hospital. NBC New York reports: “I looked down and I saw the baby shaking,” Sands said. “Blood underneath […]
BROOKLYN-A four-year-old boy, Jayelin Graham was killed after his step father, Damian Jones’ Cane Corso, an Italian dog trained for hunting wild boars, “Machete” bit his throat and mauled him to death. Graham and his brothers were left alone with the dog who was “trained to kill” according to neighbors who also claimed that the […]
NEW YORK — A huge crowd gathered outside the criminal court in Manhattan yesterday, in protest of the acquittal of two police officers charged with raping a drunken women in her apartment. Huffington Post reports: The protest was organized by a coalition of women’s rights groups, including Permanent Wave and Feministing. The purpose of the […]
A Sunday-school teacher and assistant special-education teacher was fired from her job at a Brooklyn elementary school for praying in the classroom. The New York Post reports: PS 224 assistant special-education teacher Anita Wooten-Francis, 52, claims she never hid her faith but took care not to influence kids. She worshiped in her classroom before or […]
NEW YORK-At least twelve teens have been caught on camera walking into a Dunkin Donuts and then throwing tables, chairs and trashing the establishment for no apparent reason. Some of the teens also helped themselves to donuts and soda. RELATED STORIES Transgender Girl Suffers Alleged Seizure After Group Beatdown In McDonald’s Bikini-Clad Woman In Burger […]
A recent article on the New York Times is about the way in which college graduates are facing greater and greater difficulty in finding employment after leaving school. The New York Times reports: Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can […]
NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]
NEW YORK — Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose announced the nominees for the 65th Annual Tony Awards at New York’s Lincoln Center today. The Grio: The predominantly African American cast of The Scottsboro Boys cleaned up with a total of 12 nominations. The musical based on the 1930s Alabama court case involving nine black […]
Nathaniel Lindein, a crack-addled burglar accused of robbing nearly a dozen Bronx churches says he broke into the poor box as revenge for the child sex scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church.
