A woman was tied up and raped during a scary early-morning home invasion in Manassas Sunday. A knife wielding man broke into a home at 10500 Lariat Lane at about 5 a.m. and tied up a 19-year old man and a 20-year-old woman before sexually assaulting the woman while her child was present in the
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On the eve of reporting to prison, T.I. (born Clifford Harris Jr.) bid farewell to his hometown fans on Sunday night at the Philips Arena in Atlanta. The rapper is set to turn himself in at noon on Tuesday (May 26) to begin serving his sentence for a year and a day at the minimum
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President Obama has chosen federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and third female U.S. Supreme Court justice if confirmed. Obama announced the nomination Tuesday morning at the White House. The president chose Sotomayor over the weekend at Camp David, Maryland, according to two
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Nick Cannon was pretty steamed over Eminem’s brutal lampooning of the singer and his wife, Mariah Carey, in the song “Bagpipes from Baghdad, which appears on Eminem’s new LP, Relapse. Cannon wrote and then quickly took down a long blog post where he accused Eminem of being racially insensitive and “still obsessed with my wife,
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In what authorities are calling “the largest gang takedown in United States history,” federal and local agents charged or arrested 147 members of a southern California street gang who allegedly sought to murder and otherwise erase African Americans from their community. The five federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday targeted the members and associates of the
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Xerox has appointed Ursula Burns its new CEO. In the historic move, the 50-year-old corporate executive becomes the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. Burns is currently President of the company that supplies digital printers and other document services. In her new Role, she will replace outgoing CEO Anne Mulcahy, who is
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The family of slain rap artist Dolla (real name: Roderick Anthony Burton) responded to claims by the accused killer’s lawyer that the shooting was done in self-defense, and that Dolla was a gang member. Aubrey Louis Berry allegedly shot and killed Dolla at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles on Monday. He was arrested later
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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has resurfaced as a salesman for a software and information technology firm in Texas, is hoping to convince a judge that SkyTel should cough up $100 million in damages for leaking embarrassing text-messages that ultimately cost him his job. Read More…
Rick Ross recently spoke on how religion has played a role in his rap feud with 50 Cent and what some of the underlying reasons were behind his verbal attacks on the G-Unit leader. Speaking on the gospel-based program “Lift Every Voice,” Ricky Ross described his dependence on religion. “If you think you making real
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The near-fatal strangulation of boxer Mike Tyson‘s 4-year-old daughter appears to be a “tragic accident,” police say. Exodus Tyson was on life support Tuesday after apparently accidentally hanging herself on a cord dangling from a treadmill in her modest central Phoenix home. “Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there’s a cord that hangs
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