After confessing that he was drunk when he made controversial comments in North Korea about a detained American missionary, former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed rehabilitation center, his agent told the New York Post on Saturday. The agent, Darren Prince, declined to say which facility will treat Rodman or how long…

The Jamaican bobsled team may be headed to another Olympics, the Associated Press reports. But before they can hit the ice to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the two-man team needs to raise at least $80,000 to pay for travel and equipment, the article says. “Right now,” sled driver Winston Watts told the…

Stars like Beyoncé, former NBA superstar Magic Johnson, singer Smokey Robinson and actor Samuel L. Jackson showed up at the White House Saturday evening to help Michelle Obama celebrate her 50th birthday, CNN reports. Family and friends left the gathering about 2 a.m. The celebration reportedly featured entertainment by Beyoncé, who performed several songs. The…

Sasheer Zamata made her debut Saturday as the first black female cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live in six years. She was featured in several sketches during the NBC show, including the first sketch about the bar mitzvah of host and musical guest Drake. During the sketch, she appeared as the girlfriend of the…

Darren Sharper, the former NFL superstar who was a five-time Pro Bowl selection, was arrested Friday and charged with sexual assault, TMZ reports. The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s website reports that Sharper was taken into custody Friday afternoon and released from jail on a $200,000 bond just before midnight. Sharper, 38, has been linked to two…

Darrin Manning and his high school basketball teammates were dressed for the cold when they hopped off the subway on Jan. 7, wearing hats, gloves and scarves given to them by a teacher, the Raw Story reports. But the 16-year-old student at Mathematics, Civics & Sciences Charter School in Philadelphia found himself in a quandary…

As the casket bearing activist, poet and playwright Amiri Baraka was carried into his funeral service Saturday in Newark, N.J., bagpipers, African drummers and jazz musicians led a moving procession, the Associated Press reports. Baraka, 79, died Jan. 9 of an undisclosed illness. Actor Danny Glover was slated to officiate Saturday’s service at Newark Symphony…

Hollywood director Oliver Stone’s much anticipated biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. is probably not coming to a theater near you anytime soon. A rewrite of the script for the film, which was to feature Jamie Foxx, was rejected by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., he announced Friday on Twitter. Problems occurred when the studios, said…

No one has reported seeing Avonte Oquendo since he slipped passed a security guard and made his way out of the Riverview School in Long Island City, Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 4, 2013. Since then the 14-year-old, who was obsessed with the subway system, has been the focus of massive searches. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation…

Richard Lyons told police that he rushed his daughter’s limp and lifeless body to a hospital after finding it in an alley near his home on Chicago’s South Side in July 2008, NBC Chicago reports. He told investigators that his daughter, Mya, had been attacked by a burglar who was trying to break into a basement.…