Would you rather be nickeled and dimed, or would you rather see service cuts? That’s the question Metro officials are trying to figure out. So far, they’re in favor of eliminating service. While New York City‘s mass transit agency recently approved a 50-cent hike in fares, Metro on Thursday rejected a proposal to consider a 5-cent
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More Blacks are leaving the northern and western big cities for the South, according to an analysis of the 2000 Census by Brookings Institution scholar William H. Frey. According to the analysis, while the Black populations of North and South Carolina are growing, cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles are seeing a decrease
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Hip-Hop mogul Jay-Z has been chosen to headline next month’s “Last Smash Platinum Blast” concert at Arizona Stadium with Kelly Clarkson, Third Eye Blind and more. Jay will share center stage alongside several popular music acts. The lineup for the first concert at Arizona Stadium since 1977 is literally one of a kind. The April
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Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle stood in front of a dozen news cameras this afternoon at police headquarters to apologize for the behavior of an officer who stopped a family outside a hospital emergency room. Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week in
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They called him Radio because his mouth never stopped — a constant chatterboxing of trash talk on the courts outside the Patterson Projects in the South Bronx. He could shoot it but he was best known as a defender, always with his forearm out in front to protect, always more than willing to settle a
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Suspended NFL star Michael Vick has left a federal lockup in Kansas, apparently bound for Virginia to appear at a bankruptcy hearing next week. Vick was at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said. The bureau’s Web site simply listed Vick as being “in
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D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is proposing making Emancipation Day an optional private holiday, instead of a legal public holiday, to save the city $1.3 million. The April 16 holiday commemorating the 1862 signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed more than 3,000 slaves in the District, became a public holiday in 2005. Budget documents
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Suge Knight has been called out for a near-fatal robbery of Akon producer, Detail, which left the victim with a reported loss of nearly $300,000. One of Detail’s employees, Christopher Walker, says the incident took place Wednesday (March 25) morning. He tells us at about 3:00 AM five men broke into his home with guns
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