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Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston reportedly called it a “blessing” when he learned that he had become the youngest player to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday. “It’s a blessing,” he told an audience during the presentation in New York, CNN reports. “I don’t even know what’s going on right now, honestly. I’m just so…

A 61-year-old Minnesota pastor has been charged with raping two teenaged girls for nearly a decade, the Huffington Post reports. The man, Jacoby Kindred, pastor of One Accord Ministries, has been accused of sexually abusing the daughters of his son’s girlfriend, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Pioneer Press, telling one victim that…

Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, plan to write a book about the life of their son, the unarmed teenager who was shot and killed in Florida in 2012,  the New York Times reports. They reportedly met with publishers this week to pitch the book, the Times says. They hope the story will…

Just as the Obamas are likely preparing to spend their annual winter vacation in Hawaii, the birther movement is peddling yet another outrageous conspiracy theory about the authenticity of the president’s birth certificate, the Huffington Post reports. Loretta Fuddy, the director of Hawaii’s Department of Health, died Wednesday in a small, commercial plane crash off…

Former NBA player Dennis Rodman plans to head to North Korea next week to train the country’s basketball team, an excursion unchanged by the execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, the Associated Press reports. “Yes, I’m going to North Korea to train the basketball team,” he told the AP by phone. “I’m going to…

Updated: Saturday, Dec. 14, 7:33 p.m. ET: The Associated Press is reporting that retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced late Saturday that he plans to attend the funeral of his long-time friend and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. A spokesman did not explain Tutu’s reversal, but said he would catch an early flight and arrive on time…

After she was roundly criticized earlier this week for insisting that Santa is white, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly took to the air Friday to say, well, she was joking. She also hit back at race baiters, accusing them of whipping things into a frenzy just to attack the conservative station. “Humor is what we…

For Jay Z, aka Shawn Carter, no recent month has been more favorable to his image as hip-hop’s preeminent renaissance man than his birthday month, December. As reported previously by The Shadow League, Jay recently secured a 10-year, $240 million contract for 31-year-old All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano with the Seattle Mariners on Dec. 6. This came…

Earlier this week I found myself on a flight to Atlanta so that I could stand in solidarity, as a father, with the parents of a murdered son. Like the few hundred others who gathered outside the Georgia state Capitol on a chilly Wednesday morning, I believed that I was seeking justice for the yet-to-be-explained…

It’s a shame that Fox News’ Megyn Kelly wasn’t on the air Thursday night to explain why she told her viewers Wednesday night that “Santa just is white,” so is Jesus, and “those are just facts.” She left that lump of coal in our stockings, and none of her panelists even bothered to question Kelly’s…