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Lil Wayne: I F**ked Chris Bosh’s Wife [VIDEO]

February 18, 2013 - 7:43pm

Hip icon Lil Wayne appears at his hometown Macy’s, in the Lakeside area of New Orleans, to meet fans and promote his contemporary streetwear brand TRUKFIT, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 in Lakeside, La. (Photo by Jack Dempsey/Invision/AP)

Apparently feeling like a jilted lover after being removed from the Miami Heat’s American Airlines Arena during the Heat-Los Angeles Lakers game on February 10, Lil Wayne went on a loud — and unnecessary — “F*ck you” rant, targeting the Miami Heat players, the NBA and the wife of Heat player, Chris Bosh, reports MTV.com.

At the Beats By Dre afterparty at Houston’s Stereo Live during All-Star Week-end, Wayne, or Lil Tunechi, or Weezy F Baby — or whatever else he’s calling himself these days — let it be known that he was not pleased with not being exalted by the Heat organization:

“When I say f-ck you say NBA.. When I say f-ck you say the Miami Heat.”

“You let them ni–as know I’m from the streets so this ain’t no Twitter beefin or no online beef, just take it to the motherf–king streets, ni–a. F–k all them ni–as. F–k LeBron, f–k She-Wade, f–k Chris Bosh, f–k all them ni–as, man. And, and, and, I f–ked Chris Bosh wife,” Wayne said.

Okay.

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As previously reported by NewsOne, after the initial incident on February 10, Wayne took it to the Tweets to voice his displeasure:

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A spokesperson for the Heat denied Wayne’s allegations to TMZ:

“In response to your inquiry, please note that Lil Wayne was not ejected from the building. He chose to leave.”

The NBA Miami Heat, nor Chris Bosh have responded to Lil Wayne’s latest chirping; hopefully, they won’t and he’ll just quietly go away.

Miami Heat’s Big Three Start Gallery

Rihanna Attacked By Fan Angry Over Chris Brown Reunion

February 18, 2013 - 4:56pm

Photo Credit: NY Daily News

Pop superstar, Rihanna, was attacked by a fan angry over her on-again relationship with Chris Brown as she was leaving the London hotspot, Box Nightclub, Sunday night, reports the NY Daily News.

At approximately 3:00 a.m., the “Stay” singer, in London to debut her fashion collection, River Island, was leaving Box when the man began screaming at her about rekindling her relationship with Brown, who beat her and left her battered and bruised on the side of the road in 2009 — one night before they were supposed to attend the Grammy Awards.

According to reports and witnesses, the man threw a bottle of Lucozade at Rihanna, who then stumbled in an attempt to dodge the projectile. She could be seen wiping blood off of her leg as she walked toward a waiting car.

Alex Baldwin Allegedly Calls Black NY Post Photographer ‘Crackhead,’ ‘Coon’

February 18, 2013 - 1:34pm

The New York Post reports 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin racially abused one of its Black photographers.

The newspaper states that one of its reporters, Tara Palmeri, approached the actor near his East Village home in Manhattan Sunday morning seeking a comment on a lawsuit filed against his wife, Hilaria, regarding her work as a yoga instructor.

The paper claims Baldwin grabbed Palmeri by the arm and told her, “I want you to choke to death.” The Post says they have an audio recording of the comments but it has yet to be published to its website. The Post also reports that Baldwin called its Black photographer, G.N. Miller–a retired cop– a “coon and a drug dealer.”

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The Post also reports that Baldwin tweeted the following:

“Moments after I tweet about the Post, Ralston, the ex-crackhead ‘photographer’ shows up at my door w 1 of Murdoch’s nieces in tow.”

He added, “Ralston claims he’s ex NYPD!! That can’t be!!! Ex NYPD don’t become crackhead, ex jailhouse paparazzi!”

The tweets cannot be found on the actor’s Tweeter page, but TMZ and The Post report they were deleted.

The cops were called and Miller and Baldwin filed harassment complaints against each other. Miller claims Baldwin bumped him in the chest, while the actor says the ex-cop pushed him. Miller claims he showed Baldwin his retired cop ID. But Baldwin allegedly called the ID a “fake’’ and added Miller was a “crackhead” and a “drug dealer” who “just got out of jail.”

For his part, Baldwin denied the claims.

Here is some background on the incident, as reported by TMZ:

Alec Baldwin says the claim he hurled a racial slur “is one of the most outrageous things I’ve heard in my life.” Baldwin says it never happened.

As for what caused the explosion of tempers … sources very close to Baldwin tell TMZ … it all emanated from a story in the Post a few days back, reporting that Alec’s wife was being sued by a student in her yoga class, claiming he was instructed to perform a dangerous move in an overcrowded class and was injured as a result.

Alec’s sources say the actor was infuriated because the Post story did not give her side, even though they claim they had multiple conversations with the reporter, saying the class was not overcrowded and the injured man got special attention because he was being careless and even admitted the accident was his fault.

Sources close to Alec say he’s the one who called the cops and lodged a harassment complaint against the Post photog. One Baldwin source denies Alec threatened to choke the photog, claiming he said, “I hope you choke to death.”

TMZ caught up with Baldwin this morning to get a comment on the racism allegations. The actor simply smiled and walked into his East Village residence.

Good-bye To A Legend: Jerry Buss, Los Angeles Lakers’ Owner, Dies At 80 [VIDEO]

February 18, 2013 - 12:54pm

PHOTO CREDIT: Salon.com/Patrick McDermott

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss has died at age 80.

Spokesman Bob Steiner says Buss died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He’d been hospitalized for cancer, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure.

Buss shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships. He transformed the Lakers into Southern California’s most beloved sports franchise and a worldwide extension of Hollywood glamour after buying the club in 1979.

Buss acquired, nurtured and befriended a staggering array of talent during his Hall of Fame tenure, starting with his first draft pick, Magic Johnson.

With Buss’ leadership and lavish spending, the Lakers won five championships during the 1980s Showtime dynasty and added five more in an 11-year span of Kobe Bryant’s career.

Jerry Buss’ Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech:

Twitter reacts to news of Buss’ death:

RIP Jerry Buss. Your encouragement and support along with your stories of staying true to yourself had an enormous impact on me.—
Mark Cuban (@mcuban) February 18, 2013

RIP Jerry Buss #Lakers—
JALEN ROSE (@JalenRose) February 18, 2013

RIP Dr Jerry Buss—
Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) February 18, 2013

In 100 years, Jerry Buss will still be remembered as the greatest owner in sports history. RIP, Dr. Buss. laker.co/dr-buss-passes—
Laker Nation (@LakerNation) February 18, 2013

Dr. Jerry Buss (RIP)—
Arsenio Hall (@ArsenioHall) February 18, 2013

RIP Jerry Buss, one of the greatest owners in sports history. Thank you for all you gave to the city of Los Angeles http://t.co/63zcJ3nW—
Jeff G. (@TheSportsDude) February 18, 2013

The maestro of Showtime is gone. The NBA has seen an array of characters over the decades, but nothing quite like Jerry Buss.—
Roland Lazenby (@lazenby) February 18, 2013

RIP Jerry Buss, who made those years at the Forum the most outrageous, decadent and fun time a sportswriter could have.—
Rick Reilly (@ReillyRick) February 18, 2013

Top Black Business Leaders Of 1800s And 1900s Part II

February 18, 2013 - 12:03pm

Although African Americans endured abject racism and prejudice during the 18th and 19th centuries, many businesses sprang forth in spite of the barriers ahead of them. With determined grit and sound practices, Black business leaders began to emerge and earned the right to engage in commerce like any other citizen. NewsOne continues its look at 20 Black business owners of that time period, highlighting their significant contributions to American society.

George Franklin Grant, Harvard dentist and inventor of the wooden golf tee

George Franklin Grant (pictured above) established himself in the world of business, after entering Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine, becoming the university’s first African-American faculty staff member. It was Grant’s invention and patenting of a golf tee that would later gain him notoriety. In 1899, Grant was awarded a patent for a wood golf tee fashioned after British inventor Percy Ellis’ “Perfectum” tee.

Mary Edmonia Lewis, savvy sculptor and businesswoman

Mary Edmonia Lewis owns the distinction of being the first African American recognized as a sculptor and achieving international stardom as a result. Although she began her career in Boston, she would move to Rome and continued her successful career. Of note, Lewis was known for her savvy business skills and abilities to garner sales of her work by using raffles, advertising, and other marketing tools.

Lewis Howard Latimer, master draftsman and inventor

Lewis Howard Latimer (pictured right) was born the son of an escaped slave in New Jersey on September 4, 1848. As a young man, he landed a job at a patent law firm and showed proficiency at drafting designs for the firm. Along with his work as the head draftsman at the law firm, Latimer helped invent and patent a series of useful inventions in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Chief among those inventions was his discovery of a process used for electric filament manufacturing in light bulbs. Working for a variety of electronic companies in the New York area, he eventually landed a job at General Electric as chief draftsman and a coordinator of patent licensing and regulation.

Norbert Rillieux, inventor who helped boost the sugar industry

Norbert Rillieux and his contribution to the production and refinement of sugar cane boosted the business and made him a considerable fortune. A mixed Creole-American, Rillieux was the son of a wealthy plantation owner and was afforded a prime education.

Learning physics and engineering, he was later offered a job at a Louisiana sugar refinery but found the process arduous. He would go on to invent a multiple-effect evaporation system that produced better results than the “Jamaica train” method that was originally used. Rillieux would patent the machine and process, convincing a host of Louisiana sugar factories to hop on board. The method was so effective that it could produce up to 18,000 pounds of sugar per day.

Christina Carteaux Bannister, businesswoman and “hair doctress”

Christina Carteaux Bannister (pictured right) was born in Rhode Island of mixed parentage, but she was most certainly a descendant of slaves who worked in Rhode Island’s South County. She moved to Boston as a young woman and took up the trade of hairdressing.

Amassing serious wealth as a self-proclaimed “hair doctress,” Bannister married Canadian-born painter Edward Bannister and supported her husband as he became a successful Black artist. The couple were friends and lived with abolitionist Lewis Hayden and helped provide support to the Underground Railroad.

Joshua Bowen Smith, the “Prince Of Caterers”

Born in Pennsylvania and finally settling in Boston in 1836, Joshua Bowen Smith worked as a waiter at the Mount Washington House. A quick study, he employed what he learned from his job and began a catering business in 1849. An active proponent of the anti-slavery movement, Smith was known for hiring other progressive free Blacks to work for him. Known as the “Prince Of Caterers,” Smith was a known ally of Lewis Hayden.

Harriet E. Wilson, first African-American female novelist and entrepreneur

Harriet E. Wilson’s (pictured above) historic 1859 book “Our Nig” catapulted her in to the annals of history as the first African-American novelist. Although the book was a significant moment in time, Wilson would go on and become well-known in New England as a traveling merchant selling hair care items. From her New Hampshire home, Wilson also sold and marketed her novel as well.

Isaac Myers, African-American trade union pioneer and leader

Baltimore’s Isaac Myers, born free in 1835, faced barriers like most African Americans but surpassed his humble beginnings. Learning to read and write in a time where he was banned from public schools in his hometown, he would find work in the Maryland city’s bustling seaports as a ship caulker.

Although Myers and other freemen had skills beyond preparing ships for sailing, they were mostly barred from greater opportunity due to racism. And even though Myers would become a successful clerk of a grocery business, he still maintained ties with Black ship workers on the docks.

When the largely White National Labor Union was formed, Myers fought for Black unionists to be included in the movement as president of the Colored National Labor Union.

Louis C. Roudanez, doctor and newspaper publishing pioneer

Louis C. Roudanez was born in Louisiana to a French merchant Father and free Black Mother. Like many children of mixed parentage in the state, he was raised and educated in France, where he earned a medical degree. Returning to New Orleans, he operated a successful practice open to Blacks and Whites.

When the city was federally occupied in 1862, Roudanez and his brother Jean-Baptiste would found the newspaper “La Tribune de la Nouvelle Orleans,” the first daily published newspaper by African Americans.

James Napier, Tennessee businessman and politician

James C. Napier (pictured above) was born to free parents on June 9, 1845, in the city of Nashville. After a race riot in December 1856, which ended the education of Blacks in Tennessee, Napier finished his schooling in Ohio. Befriending powerful Black Republican congressman John Mercer Langston, Napier was convinced by the politician to enroll at the newly opened law school at Howard University.

Returning to Nashville, Napier became a key figure in the city. After becoming the first African American to preside over the city’s council board, he later achieved notoriety as President William H. Taft’s Register of the United States Treasury the years of 1911-13. Napier founded the Citizens Savings Bank in 1904, presiding over the firm well in to his later days.

Tiger Woods Joins Vacationing Obama For Golf Round

February 18, 2013 - 10:30am

PALM CITY, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama teed it up with Tiger Woods on Sunday.

The White House confirmed that the President and the world’s most famous golfer played a round at a secluded, exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida’s Treasure Coast.

Once the sport’s dominant player before his career was sidetracked by scandal, Woods joined Obama at the Floridian, where Obama is spending the long Presidents Day weekend. The two had met before, but Sunday was the first time they played together.

The White House, which has promised to be the most open and transparent in history, has prohibited any media coverage of Obama’s golf outing.

The foursome also included Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who owns the Floridian and baseball’s Houston Astros, and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. Crane and Kirk also were part of Obama’s foursome on Saturday, the White House said.

Obama, an avid golfer, also received some instruction Saturday and played a few holes with Butch Harmon, Woods’ former swing coach.

Initial word that the First Duffer would play a round with the world’s No. 2 player didn’t come from the White House, but instead came from veteran golf journalist Tim Rosaforte, who announced it on Twitter. Rosaforte’s late-morning tweet said: “The president is arriving at the Floridian range. Awaiting is Tiger Woods and club owner Jim Crane. Historic day in golf. Their first round.”

White House confirmation of Woods’ participation came about two hours later, following multiple appeals from traveling White House reporters.

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Golf Digest reported on its website that Obama spent eight hours Saturday with Harmon, playing 27 holes and hitting balls in Harmon’s studio, and then managed to coordinate Sunday’s round with Woods. The report said the original plan called for Obama and Woods, a Florida resident, to play at Woods’ home club – The Medalist Golf Club, a half-hour away in Hobe Sound. But they eventually opted for the Floridian.

Woods departed Sunday after the first 18 holes, with Obama staying on to play another nine, the report said.

“Just to see the interaction between the two on the range was pretty neat,” Harmon told Golf Digest. “The President said to Tiger: `The last tournament you played was fun to watch. It’s good to see you play well again.’ You could tell he meant it. It just wasn’t a throw it out compliment.”

It seems Obama and Woods – the first black men at the top of their respective fields – have spent the past few years inching toward Sunday’s meeting on the fairway.

They met in January 2009, during Obama’s inauguration in Washington. Four months later, in April, Woods visited the White House and Obama received him in the Oval Office.

Woods’ personal life imploded later in 2009 after revelations that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs, leading to divorce. He followed with a public apology and announced he was taking an indefinite break from golf. Shortly after Woods announced he was coming out of seclusion, Obama said in an interview with Fox News Channel that Woods will still be a “terrific” golfer despite his personal issues.

After returning to the sport, Woods went two years without winning, but his game is back on track and he currently is ranked No. 2 in the world. Woods won the last tournament he played, three weeks ago in San Diego.

The White House made clear from the start of Obama’s trip that there would be no coverage of him because he would be on vacation with no plans to leave the club, which remained open to members and their guests.

It arranged for the pool of reporters who traveled with Obama to bunk at a Holiday Inn about a 20-minute drive away in Port St. Lucie. Whenever the reporters were brought to the Floridian on the off chance that Obama might leave the property, they were taken no further than a maintenance shed beyond the club gates but on the edge of the grounds.

The presence at the Floridian of a professional journalist who tweeted about Obama’s game as he was playing, while White House reporters essentially were locked out, brought a sharp response from Ed Henry, the Fox News Channel correspondent who also is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

“A broad cross section of our members from print, radio, online and TV have today expressed extreme frustration to me about having absolutely no access to the president of the United States this entire weekend,” Henry said in a statement. “There is a very simple but important principle we will continue to fight for today and in the days ahead: transparency.”

In response, Earnest, the White House spokesman said: “The press access granted by the White House today is entirely consistent with the press access offered for previous presidential golf outings. It’s also consistent with the press access promised to the White House Press Corps prior to arrival in Florida on Friday evening.”

Previous administrations have allowed brief news media coverage at either the beginning or the end of presidential golf games. Obama’s policy generally is no coverage at all, but exceptions were made for separate outings he had in 2011 with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and former President Bill Clinton.

Golf Channel said Rosaforte is a member of the Floridian who sent his tweets from the clubhouse. Rosaforte did not have access to the course or to Obama, the network said.

Obama is in Florida while his wife and daughters are on an annual ski vacation out West. He was due to arrive back in Washington on Monday night.

Chicago Girl Killed Same Day Sister Sat Behind President Obama

February 17, 2013 - 9:21pm

CHICAGO — An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister had sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push for gun control legislation.

Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago, Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd told the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/12Uoh9b ). Mcfarlane, a mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting friends and family.

North Chicago police said two people are being questioned in connection with Mcfarlane’s death, but no charges have been filed.

“I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out,” Angela Blakely, Mcfarlane’s mother, said.

Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.

Hours earlier, Mcfarlane’s 14-year-old sister was feet from Obama at Hyde Park Career Academy, where he spoke about gun violence and paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a South Side park. Police have said it was a case of mistaken identity, and two people have been charged.

Pendleton’s death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. Pendleton, a drum majorette, had recently performed during Obama’s inauguration and the slaying happened about a mile from his Chicago home.

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Blakely told the newspaper that Janay Mcfarlane had been affected by Pendleton’s death.

“She always said after Hadiya Pendleton got killed, `Momma that’s so sad,’” Blakely said. “She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was always touched by mothers who couldn’t be there for their babies because they were gone.”

Mcfarlane was supposed to graduate from an alternative school this spring, Blakely said, and wanted to go into the culinary arts.

“I’m just really, truly just trying to process it – knowing that I’m not taking my baby home anymore,” Blakely said.

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Online Video Game Portrays Chris Dorner As Hero

February 17, 2013 - 6:20pm

LOS ANGELES — The death of ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner in a fiery standoff with authorities has done little to quell online chatter over a man whose rampage against law enforcement created a small but vocal following.

A Mexican crooner sings a traditional ballad titled “El Matapolicias,” or “The Police Killer,” in a video on Facebook with lyrics paying homage to Dorner’s campaign of revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department.

A video game titled “Christopher Dorner’s Last Stand Survival Game” on YouTube arms the player with a handgun to shoot out from the window of a wooden cabin into a snowy, pine-covered terrain. The first frame declares him “A True American Hero.”

While most supporters don’t condone killing people, they saw him as an outlaw hero who raged against powerful forces of authority. They even questioned whether he really died in an inferno in a mountain cabin in a resort town east of Los Angeles on Tuesday.

They wonder whether he escaped or would rise almost phoenix-like out of the ashes to continue a mission of vengeance that left four people dead, including two officers.

Natasha Lopez, a San Diego mother who has studied criminal justice, said she has started a petition asking that an independent agency reopen Dorner’s case with LAPD, in which he alleged he was fired in 2008 after complaining about a supervisor kicking a mentally ill man.

“What about those lives destroyed by the corruption of the police force. What about those Americans who are not part of the law enforcement community who have to live their lives in fear due to negligence of authorities,” she said in an email.

“I believe that he has opened a can of worms for the LAPD and opened the eyes of individuals that might have otherwise been blind.”

That perception caused the police department to announce it would take another look at Dorner’s case to dispel any overtones of cover-up or racism, but police Chief Charlie Beck rejected any notion of appeasing Dorner, calling his acts “domestic terrorism.”

Experts said the fascination with Dorner’s story is rooted in the average person’s feeling of powerlessness against authority and a deep-seated desire to win over the system. Most people daydream about getting back at their boss.

“People love the idea of hiding out and beating the system,” said Bruce Jackson, distinguished professor of American culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo. “They get charmed with the chase and forget the reason for the chase. People cut it into two stories.”

Folklore around the world is full of such fugitives, famed more for their escapes from justice than for the misdeeds that made them flee: England’s Robin Hood, to name one. In the United States, Americans have a pantheon of western outlaws.

Even though the vast majority of fugitives get caught, going down in a hail of bullets only adds to the legend. Think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Dorner clearly put himself in the category, stating in his Facebook manifesto that he did not expect to survive his campaign to clear his name. A rambling Facebook manifesto in which police said he articulated his motives was a key element that drew many to his cause.

Internet distribution allowed people to judge him for themselves and voice their opinions under a cloak of anonymity.

They could also follow his story in real time as heavily armed police across the Southwest and Mexico searched for him. It evolved into something akin to a real-life video game — a camouflage-clad character armed with high-powered weapons battling the enemy.

“You are participating in it on some level,” said Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University.

Still, Thompson stressed that despite two dozen Facebook pages dedicated to Dorner and some people tweeting in Dorner’s name, it was still only a small percentage of the public. Most people were not fans of Dorner’s actions.

“His manifesto pointed out that he was victimized, but that does not give you right to seek justice as you see fit,” said Nilon Seals III, a Long Beach, Calif., analyst for a Los Angeles city agency. “You aren’t a victim when you make new victims.”

Detroit Man Still Pays Child Support For Son Who Died 25 Years Ago

February 17, 2013 - 3:30pm

Lional Campbell‘ son, Michael, died of acute meningitis at the age of three 25 years ago. However, Campbell is still paying child support for him to this day, Channel 7 Action News reports.

Originally from Detroit, Campbell now lives in Kentucky. In 2011, he began questioning why he was still paying child support on a child who died back in 1988. At first, he said he never questioned the payments because he thought they were for an older son he fathered with Michael’s mother. He was born seven years before Michael and is now 34-years-old.

That he lives several states away is making his fight to clear his name even more difficult. “It took a lot out of me,” Campbell said.

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When Channel 7 asked the Wayne County Friend of the Court how a man could be responsible for paying child support for a deceased child, a spokesperson said that no one ever told them that the child was dead. They also added that, because they are low on staff and case loads are enormous, mistakes were made.

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Here is a breakdown of this convoluted story below:

Believing his payments, that included arrearages, should have ended by now, Campbell asked why the payments had not stopped.

He says he was told the continuing payments were back child support for his son Michael.

Campbell drove to Detroit to show court officials a death certificate, proof that Michael died in 1988, but says he was told that he still owed about $43,000 for Michael.

Campbell asked for several audits. Each time he was given a lesser amount. He was then told he owed a little less than $20,000.

Campbell says even clerks at the Friend of the Court have been baffled.

“The lady said ‘how you owe on a child been dead 23 years?’ I said I don’t know and she said we’ll do another audit”.

Campbell reached out to 7 Action News and while a spokesperson for the Friend of the Court could not talk specifically about Campbell’s case because of privacy issues, they did tell us that surcharges drastically raise the amounts owed by non-custodial parents.

One court official likened the surcharges, that ended several years ago, to “loan sharking”.

Court officials admitted to 7 Action News that the calculations from the audits were wrong and that they would expedite another one.

The latest audit resulted in what court officials believe is an accurate amount Campbell still owes: $6,460.08.

Thing is, Campbell doesn’t believe he even owes that much because, over the years, he has been paying for two children. Though there are some complications in Campbell’s case as well: appropriately detangling the surcharges; gaps in Campbell’s employment history; and payments for two children that were being made for many years.

Campbell is seeking another audit before he files his taxes this year because he fears the Friend of the Court will swallow up any refund he could get over the unresolved child support issues.

The mother of Campbell’s children declined to speak to Channel 7 about the child support case.

Mary J. Blige Slapped With $900,000 Tax Lien

February 17, 2013 - 1:18pm

Mary J. Blige has been hit with a $900,000 tax lien in New Jersey, TMZ reports.

The R&B star is in the hole to the tune of $901,769.65 in back taxes owed to the state, according to court documents obtained by the entertainment news site. As NewsOne previously reported, Blige is facing a slew of other financial challenges as well.

She was just hit with a lawsuit from Bank of American which claims that the singer defaulted on a $500,000 loan. She took out the loan in 2005 and allegedly stopped making payments on it after June of last year.

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If that wasn’t enough, she was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million bank loan from Signature Bank and her charity, the Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, was also sued by TD Bank for not paying back a $250,000 loan. Though foundation shot back at the bank, claiming that had the financial institution checked their books, it would have realized that the charity was in no position to accept a loan to begin with.

(We don’t have any editors with law degrees over here at NewsOne, but we doubt that argument will stand up in court)

TMZ says back in May that Blige blamed the charity’s financial issues on the staff. “The problem is that I didn’t have the right people in the right places doing the right things,” she said.

Well, in the case of this $900,000 tax lien, we wonder who’s to blame for that?

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[UPDATE] Lawyer Of Passenger Who Allegedly Slapped Baby Says She’s Getting Hate Mail

February 17, 2013 - 10:32am

UPDATE 12:16 PM: Marcia Shein, the lawyer representing the Delta Airlines passenger who is accused of slapping a Black baby and calling him n*gger, says she is receiving hate mail, according to the Daily Mail. Shein’s client, Joe Rickey Hundley, is pleading not guilty to the federal assault charge he is facing in connection to the allegation. Shein says the public should not rush to judgement, as there is more to the story that many are not aware of.

“It’s a process you have to go through but when you tell the public that, they just think you’re nuts,” she said. “He is not a racist,’ she added of her client. ‘I’m going to make that real clear because that’s what people are suggesting.

“There’s background information people don’t know about, and in time it will come out.”

“I’m sorry the family is upset,” the attorney added. “I can understand why they would be.”

But defending Hundley may be an uphill battle. According to the attorney representing the family, multiple witnesses say they saw Hundley racially abuse the child and hit him. One of those witnesses is reportedly a federal air marshal.
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MINNEAPOLIS —A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday.

Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an employee of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public Relations confirmed Sunday night.

Al Haase, president and CEO of AGC, issued a statement early Sunday that, while not referring to Hundley by name, called reports of behavior by one of its executives on recent personal travel “offensive and disturbing” and said he “is no longer employed with the company.” Keeney would not say whether Hundley was fired or resigned. Hundley was president of AGC’s Unitech Composites and Structures unit.

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Hundley was charged last week in federal court in Atlanta with simple assault for allegedly slapping the 2-year-old boy during the Feb. 8 flight. His attorney, Marcia Shein, of Decatur, Ga., said Saturday that Hundley will plead not guilty. The charge carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.

Shein did not immediately returned messages seeking comment left Sunday evening by The Associated Press. Hundley does not have a listed phone number.

The boy’s mother, Jessica Bennett, 33, told the FBI their flight was on final descent into Atlanta when her 19-month-old son started to cry due to the altitude change. Hundley “told her to shut that (N-word) baby up,” FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement. She said Hundley then slapped him in the face, scratching the boy below his right eye and causing him to scream even louder.

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Bennett told Twin Cities television stations on Saturday that the incident has caused her family a great deal of trauma and that her son, Jonah, had been outgoing but had turned apprehensive of strangers.

Hundley became increasingly obnoxious and appeared intoxicated during the flight and complained that her son was too big to sit on her lap, she said.

“He reeked of alcohol,” Bennett told KARE-TV. “He was belligerent, and I was uncomfortable.”

Bennett said she was shocked by the racial slur she says Hundley used when Jonah started crying.

“And I said, ‘What did you say?’ because I couldn’t believe that he would say that,” she told WCCO-TV. “He fell onto my face and his mouth was in my ear and he said it again but even more hateful. And he’s on my face, so I pushed him away.”

Bennett and her husband are white, while Jonah, whom they adopted, is black.

“We wish to emphasize that the behavior that has been described is contradictory to our values, embarrassing and does not in any way reflect the patriotic character of the men and women of diverse backgrounds who work tirelessly in our business,” Haase said in his statement.

Philadelphia Daycare Worker Charged With Abduction, Rape Of Girl Stolen From Classroom [VIDEO]

February 16, 2013 - 6:35pm

PHILADELPHIA — A 19-year-old daycare worker was formally charged Friday in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school last month, an arrest aided by the little girl’s memory of a talking bird in the home where she was taken, authorities said.

Christina Regusters was charged with kidnapping, rape of a child, conspiracy, aggravated assault and other offenses and was being held on $4 million bail, District Attorney Seth Williams said in a statement. She was one of four people questioned Thursday who live in a home several blocks from Bryant Elementary School in west Philadelphia. The other three were released.

Regusters worked at an after-school care program attended by the victim, who was taken out of her classroom Jan. 14 by a woman posing as her mother, according to Philadelphia police Capt. John Darby, who heads the department’s special victims unit. The woman had said she was coming to take the girl out to breakfast, according to school officials, who said school policies were not followed in releasing the child.

Investigators believe the suspect and victim then walked a few blocks to a home where a man was waiting. The child was blindfolded, told to remove her clothes and put on a black, adult-sized T-shirt, and ordered to hide under a bed, authorities said. She was apparently dumped about 18 hours later at a park about a mile from her school, just outside the city, and was found by a passer-by, shivering under playground equipment. When she was found, the girl told her rescuer, “I’ve been stolen.”

Police have since taken her to places around the neighborhood as they search for clues.

“The investigation is very much active and ongoing,” Darby said at a news conference Thursday.

Attorney Tom Kline, who represents the girl and her mother, said the child told police there was some sort of talking bird at the place where she was taken after she was abducted, information that helped lead police to the home.

“This brave, innocent precious little girl was instrumental in leading police literally to the door of the crime,” Kline said in an interview Friday. “She told them that there was a bird in the house. The bird became one of the many focal points of the investigation.”

Darby said a multicolor macaw was taken from the property during the execution of a police search warrant Thursday night.

A telephone listing for Regusters could not be located. An attorney who was representing her could not immediately be reached by The Associated Press because a telephone listing for him was temporarily disconnected. But the attorney, W. Fred Harrison Jr., told WCAU-TV that Regusters had “no involvement” in the crime.

The investigation has been unfolding since a woman wearing a black Muslim garment, her face covered by a veil, posed as the girl’s mother and took her out of class, officials said. The victim’s mother wears the traditional chador and niqab.

Kline said the girl suffered “terrible, horrible injuries” and that the family was “grateful” for the arrest, but knows it isn’t the end of the line.

“There is still more work to be done,” he said adding that there were clearly additional people involved. “We are watching anxiously the next developments because this is not the end of the line.”

UPDATE: Store That Stopped And Frisked Forest Whitaker Apologizes

February 16, 2013 - 4:09pm

UPDATE 3:51 P.M. Monday: A rep from Milano Market apologized over an incident in which Forest Whitaker was stopped and frisked by one of its employees on Saturday. The rep said the pat down was not racially motivated.

“The management of Milano Market deeply regrets the wrongful actions of our employee in stopping and frisking Forest Whitaker,” the rep told the entertainment news site. “While we can not delve into the employee’s mindset, we do not believe that he was racially motivated in his actions, simply misguided.”

The rep added that the market is taking steps to retrain employees so that such incidents do not happen again. Milano Market also wants to make a donation to a charity of Whitaker’s choice to make things right.
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UPDATE 1:00 P.M. Sunday: A store employee from Milano Market spoke to the New York Daily News about the pat down Forest Whitaker endured after he was accused of stealing from the establishment.

“It was around lunchtime and the store was packed,” said a Milano employee who refused to give his name. “We were like 50 people deep. The person walked in and out really quickly so our person just made a mistake. The employee apologized immediately. It was an honest mistake. I’ve been here 14 years and nothing like this has ever happened.”

Really? Perhaps Forest didn’t see what he wanted and simply walked out. What’s the crime in that?

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The employee’s comments still do not sit well with the Forest, according to his representative.

“This was an upsetting incident given the fact that Forest did nothing more than walk into the deli,” said his publicist, Jennifer Plante. She said the actor was on set and unavailable to discuss the incident.

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Not even the inside of a store can provide a Black man–in this case, Forest Whitaker— in New York City refuge from “Stop and Frisk.”

This time, however, the NYPD is not behind the act; it was allegedly an employee of the Upper West Side’s Milano Market who carried out the embarrassing pat down. TMZ reports that Whitaker said he was falsely accused of lifting an item off the store’s shelf and subsequently frisked by an employee. An eyewitness told the entertainment site that the Academy Award winner was frisked in plain view of everyone.

Of course, the shake down produced nothing belonging to the store and Whitaker left the establishment angry and embarrassed.

The actor’s rep told TMZ, “This was an upsetting incident given the fact that Forest did nothing more than walk into the deli. What is most unfortunate about this situation is the inappropriate way store employees are treating patrons of their establishment.

“Frisking individuals without proof/evidence is a violation of rights.”

The rep added, “Forest did not call the authorities at the request of the worker who was in fear of losing his employment. Forest asked that, in the future, the store change their behavior and treat the public in a fair and just manner.”

Milano Market has not released a statement on the incident.

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UPDATE: Detroit Girl Shot By Father Is Expected To Live

February 16, 2013 - 2:41pm

UPDATE 2:10 P.M.:

A 7-year-old Detroit girl is expected to recover after her father shot her in the stomach , Fox 2 News Detroit reports.

“She’s had a few surgeries, but she’s pulling through,” said Amera’s mother Kelly Jones. “She can’t talk yet, or open her eyes, but she can hear you. She can nod her; squeeze your hand.”

Part of her arm and elbow was shattered during the shooting. The child also suffers from a debilitating muscle condition.

Ferdarius Shine, 28, is suspected in the shootings of his grandmother, aunt and daughter, Amera Jones. He checked himself into a hospital for a psych evaluation soon after he allegedly shot his three family members.

Shine reportedly has a history of mental illness. It is not clear when he will be charged for the shootings. Cops found a gun at the scene on Friday evening when the shooting took place. Shine has a permit to carry, but it is unclear when he got it. But family members question why he had one to begin with, given his reporte history of mental illness.

“They need to do more background checks before they release guns to anyone,” said Evelyn Sherman, Amera’s grandmother, who added that she has known Shine for 10 years and had no idea he suffered from any mental health issues. “

The little girl’s last words before being taken to the hospital were, “Granny, why did my daddy shoot me.”

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Ferdarius Shine checked himself into a Detroit hospital for a psychiatric evaluation early this morning after he allegedly shot his grandmother, aunt and young daughter, the Detroit Free Press reports.

The 66-year-old grandmother and the 44-year-old aunt were found dead at the scene. His 7-year-old daughter is in critical condition. The man’s mother was in the home at the time of the shooting, but she was not injured. It is not known what exactly caused the shooting.

Shine, 28, who Detroit police say suffers from mental illness, allegedly shot the three family members around 6:45 p.m. and fled the scene on a bicycle. Cops say Shine has a concealed pistol license.

Detroit Police Inspector Dwane Blackmon said Shine made unrecognizable statements before he began shooting. He also noted that mental illness may have triggered the shooting. Though, he expressed concern over how a man with Shine’s well-documented history of mental illness could have secured a gun permit.

“It’s a mystery to me as how a person with his mental capacity at this point could have a legal weapon,” he said.

NewsOne will update this story with new information as it becomes available.

Mom Cuffed After Stripping On Stage At Son’s School Assembly

February 16, 2013 - 12:55pm

Aydrea Meaders was arrested after she allegedly stepped onto the stage of her son’s school assembly and began stripping before an audience of 200-plus students and school staff, News 10 ABC reports.

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Albany police responded to a call from North Albany Academy in upstate New York for a report of a woman exposing herself inside of the school. When the cops arrived on the scene, staff informed them that Meaders, 24, stepped onto the stage and began dancing with the students. No one expected her to join the assembly, though her dancing was not seen as anything appropriate.

“It had been going as a terrific event. The cafeteria was full. We probably had about 200 students in there from throughout the school,” said Ron Lesko of the Albany School District.

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But it didn’t take long for things to unravel, as Meaders allegedly began dancing as if she were auditioning for the “Playas Club.”

“Suddenly she stepped to the front of the group threw off her coat and stripped from the waist up,” said Lesko.

Staff quickly rushed to the stage, escorted her to the side and shielded her away from students while they waited for the cops to arrive. Looking back on the incident, Lesko said Meaders was not acting unusual until she decided that she wanted to strip.

“No behavior that anyone encountered during the assembly and she spent the time talking to the principal having perfectly normal conversation.”

She was charged with seven counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child and one count of Public Lewdness.

Pistorius’ Family Strongly Refutes Murder Charge

February 16, 2013 - 12:51pm

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius leaves the Boschkop police station, east of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Pistorius was taken into custody after a 30-year-old woman, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead at his home. (AP Photo)

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is “numb with shock, as well as grief” after the shooting death of his model girlfriend at his home in South Africa, the runner’s uncle said Saturday, as his family strongly refuted prosecutors’ claims that he murdered her.

Arnold Pistorius spoke with The Associated Press and two other South African journalists about his nephew’s arrest in the killing of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot four times on the morning of Valentine’s Day. Arnold Pistorius spoke to reporters from his three-story home in the eastern suburbs of South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.

The statement, the first on camera and directly made in person by Pistorius’ family, also came out strongly against prosecutors seeking to upgrade the charge against Pistorius to one of premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison.

“After consulting with legal representatives, we deeply regret the allegation of premeditated murder,” Arnold Pistorius said. “We have no doubt there is no substance to the allegation and that the state’s own case, including its own forensic evidence, strongly refutes any possibility of a premeditated murder or murder as such.”

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The track star’s arrest in the killing of 29-year-old Steenkamp shocked South Africa, where Pistorius was a national hero dubbed the Blade Runner for his high-tech prosthetics and revered for overcoming his disability to compete in the London Games. She was discovered in a pool of blood before dawn Thursday by police called to Pistorius’ upscale home in a gated community in Pretoria. Authorities said she had been shot four times, and a 9 mm pistol was recovered at the home.

Pistorius remains held at a police station pending a bail hearing Tuesday. Police have already said they’ll oppose Pistorius being released before trial. A premeditated murder charge also makes it more difficult for his defense team to get bail.

There will be a variety of hearings before Pistorius, 26, could go on trial. In South Africa, there are no juries, so a judge ultimately would decide Pistorius’ guilt or innocence, sometimes with the advice of two advisers. At an initial hearing Friday, Pistorius sobbed and held his head in his hands at times. He has yet to enter a plea in the case.

The family denial that Pistorius committed murder doesn’t necessarily mean that they say he didn’t shoot her, as murder is a legal term. Initial speculation immediately after the shooting Thursday suggested that it could have been accidental, though police say they don’t believe that.

Arnold Pistorius did not discuss the circumstances of the shooting, but said that his nephew and Steenkamp had become very close since they started dating in November.

“They had plans together and Oscar was happier in his private life than he had been for a long time,” the uncle said.

As Arnold Pistorius read his statement, Pistorius’ sister Aimee stood nearby and broke down in tears at one point. Her uncle stopped reading for a moment to put his arms around her. Pistorius remains very close with his uncle, a man he once lived with as a teenager.

“Words cannot adequately describe our feelings,” his uncle said. “The lives of our entire family have been turned upside down forever by this unimaginable human tragedy and Reeva’s family have suffered a terrible loss. As a family we are trying to be strong and supportive to Oscar as any close family would be in these dreadful circumstances.”

Since news of the slaying, shock waves have rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world’s highest murder rates. U.N. statistics say the nation has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia. Others have focused their attention on Pistorius and his fascination with fast cars, cage fighting and firearms.

Steenkamp, who graduated from law school, is known in South Africa for appearing in commercials and as a bikini-clad model in men’s magazines. On Saturday, South Africa’s state broadcaster SABC planned to air a reality TV show featuring the model. Another portion of the show released earlier Saturday included a clip of her swimming with two dolphins, which tap her on the cheek with their snouts.

“I think the way that you go out, not just your journey in life, but the way that you go out and the way you make your exit is so important,” Steenkamp says in the video. “You either made an impact in a positive or a negative way, but just maintain integrity and maintain class and just remain true to yourself.

“I’m going to miss you all so much and I love you very, very much.”

Dr. Cornel West: President Obama Is A ‘War Criminal’ [VIDEO]

February 16, 2013 - 2:19am

Proving that conviction and consistency go hand and hand, Dr. Cornel West has once again called President Barack Obama a “war criminal” for his proliferation of a drone war that has killed an estimated 216 innocent children, reports Raw Story.

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Appearing on the radio with his comrade-in-arms, Tavis Smiley, West criticized the Commander-in-Chief for a strategic decision which seeks to minimize the loss of American lives by utilizing drone warfare that is both indiscriminate and inhumane.

“I think, my dear brother, the chickens are coming home to roost,” West told Smiley. “We’ve been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It’s been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.”

In addition to the children killed, a recently exposed “White Paper” from the Department of Justice — an internal memo scooped by NBC — revealed that under the Obama Administration, citizens of the United States can be assassinated if they are believed to be members of Al-Qaeda.

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Obama has struggled with criticism of the drone war that has expanded dramatically under his administration. Indeed, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been 6 times the number of drone strikes in Pakistan under the Obama Administration than under the Bush 43 Administration, and the CIA has been authorized to target funerals and rescuers.

“I think we have to be very honest, let us not be deceived: Nixon, Bush, Obama, they’re war criminals,” West said. “They have killed innocent people in the name of the struggle for freedom, but they’re suspending the law, very much like Wall Street criminals. The law is suspended for them, but the law applies for the rest of us. You and I, brother Tavis, if we kill an innocent person we go to jail, and we’re going to be in there forever.”

Critics have denounced the inhumanity of drone warfare — and rightfully so. The United Nations has launched an investigation into the legality of the expanding US drone war and The Bureau reports that 4,643 people have been killed in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

In a garishly hypocritical statement, President Obama, while framing Israel hurling rockets at innocent children in occupied Palestine as “self-defense,” said that he understands why vulnerable countries would criticize unmanned aerial attacks:

“There’s no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” he said in a press conference in Thailand.

Pot? Meet Kettle.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Dr. West has been extremely vocal when criticizing President Obama, and held none of his anger back when it was announced that he would be sworn in using the bible of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. To illustrate the vast contrasts between the two men, West presents hypothetical questions that he would ask the slain Civil Rights leader if he were alive today about the direction of the country under the Obama Administration:

“Brother Martin Luther King, Jr., what you say about the New Jim Crow? What would say about the Prison Industrial Complex? What would you say about the invisibility of so many of our prisoners, so many of our incarcerated, especially when 62 percent of them are there for soft drugs and not one executive of a Wall Street bank gone to jail. Not one. Martin doesn’t like that. Not one wire-tapper, not one torturer under the Bush Administration — at all,” said West.

“Then what would he say about the drones on the precious brothers and sisters in Pakistan, and Somalia, and Yemen. Those are war crimes, just like war crimes in Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Jr., what would you say?”

Whether one agrees with Dr. West or not, this country under this president is responsible for the deaths of innocent children in the names of freedom and patriotism. That is fact. And it is past time that we have an honest discussion on the differences between terrorism and justice.

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President Obama said that the tragic, horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut was the “worst day of [his] presidency,” and he called the victims by name. I would think that the murder of a child is the worst day of any parent’s life and out of respect for the hundreds of families who have lost children because of drones authorized by President Bush and President Obama, I list them here — by name.

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PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender
Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
Rahatullah |17 | male
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
Shahjehan | 15 | male
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
Numair | 14 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
Shabir | 15 | male
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
Shafiullah | 16 | male
Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male
Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
Nasser Salim | 19

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10 Atlanta Police Charged In Corruption Case, Taking Payouts From Drug Dealers [VIDEO]

February 15, 2013 - 11:13pm

Ten metro Atlanta police officers have been charged with taking bribes from drug dealers in exchange for protecting them while they flooded the streets of Atlanta with cocaine, reports CBS.com.

Law enforcement officers arrested in the wide-spread corruption scheme: Atlanta Police Department Officer Kelvin Allen, 42, of Atlanta; DeKalb County Police Department Officers Dennis Duren, 32, of Atlanta and Dorian Williams, 25, of Stone Mountain, Ga.; Forest Park Police Department Sergeants Victor Middlebrook, 44, of Jonesboro, Ga. and Andrew Monroe, 57, of Riverdale, Ga.; MARTA Police Department Officer Marquez Holmes, 45, of Jonesboro, Ga.; Stone Mountain Police Department Officer Denoris Carter, 42, of Lithonia, Ga., and contract Federal Protective Services Officer Sharon Peters, 43, of Lithonia, Ga.

Former DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office jail officers involved in the scheme are Monyette McLaurin, 37, of Atlanta, and Chase Valentine, 44, of Covington, Ga.

U.S. Attorney Sally Yates says that officers involved in the scheme even suggested using a school zone as a distraction:

“Remarkably, one of the police officers actually suggested that future drug deals be conducted in the parking lot of a local high school so they could exchange backpacks there, and that exchange of backpacks wouldn’t be something that caused suspicion,” Yates explained during a news conference Tuesday.

“This is a troubling day for law enforcement in our city. The law enforcement officers charged today sold their badges by taking payoffs from drug dealers that they should have been arresting,” Yates said. “They not only betrayed the citizens they were sworn to protect, they also betrayed the thousands of honest, hard-working law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day to keep us safe. We will continue to work with our local law enforcement partners to pursue this corruption wherever it lies.”

Drug trafficking, accepting illegal payouts and “using firearms during the commission of a crime,” were a few of the charges brought against the officers.

Rihanna Gets Weed For Valentine’s Day

February 15, 2013 - 6:52pm

While most ladies got candy and flowers for Valentine’s Day, Rihanna says she got some weed, TMZ reports.

The singer showed off her gift on Instagram with the message, “Roses are green! Somebody knows how to make me happy.”

The the real question is who got her the gift. Chris Brown reportedly has a marijuana card in California. While he can buy weed for himself, he cannot purchase any for anyone else.

But ladies, let us know in the poll below which would you prefer: Weed or Candy?

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