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NC Preemie, Born 14 Weeks Early, Finally Goes Home After 5 Months in Hospital
One North Carolina couple is celebrating their daughter’s homecoming five months after the child was born 14 weeks early, making her one of the smallest babies to survive, CBS News reports. Little E’layah was born back in Sept. 23, 2015, weighing a mere 10 ounces and measuring all of 10 inches long from head to…
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LL Cool J and Diddy Discover Shocking Family Secrets in Finding Your Roots
In Tuesday’s new episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS, hip-hop heavyweights LL Cool J and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs learn stunning facts about their lineage. Fresh off his Grammy-hosting gig, LL Cool J (born James Smith) is floored to learn that the woman he’s known as his maternal grandmother actually isn’t related to him,…
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Ind. Middle School Basketball Coach Suspended for Telling Players Not to ‘Act Black’
An Indiana middle school girls’ basketball coach has been suspended after telling members of the team not to “act black,” while also referring to players on another team as “ghetto,” the Elkhart Truth reports. According to the report, Vicki Rogers, a teacher and coach at Elkhart’s North Side Middle School, was suspended Jan. 22 for…
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US Marshals Are Arresting People Who Are Behind on Student Loans
If you are behind on your student loans and live in Houston, you could be arrested. That’s right, the U.S. Marshals Service in Houston is arresting people who have outstanding, unpaid federal student loan debt. Houston resident Paul Aker told Fox 26 that seven deputy U.S. marshals showed up at his home with guns over…
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Family, Friends Stunned After Va. Cop Fatally Shoots High School Senior, 19
Around 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia police got a call reporting that 19-year-old Dyzhawn Perkins was going wild inside a Solo Mart store in Scottsville, Va. According to police, Perkins was knocking over shelves and reportedly attacked an elderly couple. According to authorities, Perkins fled the store and two Buckingham County sheriff’s deputies found Perkins at…
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Ill. Governor to Shut Down Troubled Youth Detention Center
Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Friday that he’ll close a troubled youth detention center, a move being praised by juvenile-justice advocates, according to the Chicago Tribune. Located in Kewanee, about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, the downstate facility houses mentally ill youths and those charged with sex crimes. The Tribune notes that about 43…
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Haiti Gets a New President Today … for Another 4 Months
Haitian lawmakers on Sunday chose the country’s Senate chief as president of an interim government, reports the Washington Post. In the early hours of Sunday, Jocelerme Privert was elected as provisional president and sworn in by Haiti’s legislature. Privert was one of three candidates vying to lead an interim government that’s only supposed to last…
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Report: Obama to Name Successor to Antonin Scalia
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday at a West Texas ranch, reports My San Antonio. According to reports, Scalia, 79, arrived at the Cibolo Creek Ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch…
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Watch: Kevin Hart and Drake Act Up at All-Star Celebrity Basketball Game
Some wisenhammer got the bright idea to bring back rapper Drake’s first on-screen character, Jimmy Brooks, from Degrassi: The Next Generation, with a clip featuring Kevin Hart’s head superimposed onto another character. The 15-second short, in which Drake’s character, Jimmy (before his character became paralyzed), took on a bully on a basketball court, was a…
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Hampton Becomes 1st HBCU to Play Division I Lacrosse
On Saturday the Hampton University Pirates will make history as the first HBCU to compete in Division I lacrosse. They will face the Roberts Wesleyan College Redhawks at 12:30 p.m. EST. As part of Black History Month, ESPN’s SportsCenter on the Road will originate from Hampton’s campus from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and provide pregame coverage, but…