After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday. Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont …
Read More »Former NFL player Sergio Brown is missing after his mother’s death was ruled a homicide
Former NFL player Sergio Brown is missing after his mother died from injuries related to an assault and her body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home, according to the Maywood Police Department. Authorities discovered the body of 73-year-old Myrtle Brown on Saturday after relatives alerted police …
Read More »Former NFL player Sergio Brown taken into custody in the murder of his mother, police say
Former NFL player Sergio Brown, who had been missing since his mother’s death last month, was taken into custody on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for first-degree murder in her killing, police said in a statement. Brown, 35, was arrested in San Diego while re-entering the US from Mexico, police in …
Read More »California creates nation’s first ‘Ebony Alert’ to find missing Black children
Damian Dovarganes/AP Tens of thousands of Black youth and women go missing across the U.S. each year. But their cases hardly ever grab national headlines, let alone receive the attention and resources dedicated to finding them. The state of California is taking steps to address that, creating a new statewide …
Read More »Rep. Steve Scalise wins the House GOP speaker nomination
Jose Luis Magana/AP Republicans have chosen Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., to be their nominee for House speaker in a closed-door, secret-ballot election. Scalise defeated House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, by a vote of 113-99. That gave Scalise a narrow majority of the Republicans’ 221 votes in the chamber, …
Read More »Luton Airport fire: Cause of car park inferno that damaged 1,500 vehicles revealed
The cause of a huge blaze at London’s Luton Airport that damaged up to 1,500 cars and sparked travel chaos has been revealed. More than 100 firefighters battled through the night to extinguish the car park inferno, which left tens of thousands of passengers facing cancelled or diverted flights. With flights set to be …
Read More »‘General Hospital’ encore episode to air Tuesday due to ABC News Special Report
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — An encore episode of ‘General Hospital’ will air on Tuesday, October 10 due to an ABC News Special Report. The originally scheduled episode of “General Hospital” will air on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. With more than 15,000 episodes and counting, “General Hospital” is the longest-running daytime …
Read More »California Is Banning Four Food Additives — But Don’t Worry, Your Skittles Are Safe
On October 7, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 418, known as the California Food Safety Act, into law. The historic legislation bans the “manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale” of food products that contain four additives currently found in about 12,000 candies, cereals, and sodas. The contentious bill …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris’ ‘Fight for Our Freedoms College Tour’ stops in Charleston
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday is set to visit the College of Charleston. This stop is one of many along her “Fight for Our Freedoms College Tour,” which focuses on critical issues that affect young Americans. Harris is expected to address several topics, including reproductive …
Read More »Putin says U.S. is inflaming Middle East by sending aircraft carrier group
MOSCOW, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Wednesday of inflaming the Middle East by sending an aircraft carrier group to the region, saying “compromise solutions” were needed and that he hoped common sense would prevail. The Kremlin chief has called the explosion of violence between …
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