HOUSTON – Imprisoned for 27 years for a rape he didn’t commit, Michael Anthony Green walked out of jail a free man on Friday and in the process was able to leave behind some of the anger that had fueled his survival behind bars. Accompanied by his attorney, Green walked out of the Harris County
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RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Imagine spending $250,000 on flowers. Or $20,000 on a cake. How does $15,000 to $20,000 for toilets sound? Sounds like the first Wedding of the Century. Wedding industry experts say that when Chelsea Clinton gets married Saturday at a private estate in upstate New York, the tab could hit $2 million, $3
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CLEVELAND — A fan wearing a Miami Heat jersey of LeBron James drew the ire of the crowd at a Cleveland Indians game and was escorted out of the ballpark. Fans in the left-field bleachers chanted obscenities and pointed at the man Wednesday night during the sixth inning of the game between the Indians and
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three armed men looking for Lorenzen Wright showed up at the home of the former NBA player’s ex-wife about six weeks before he was found shot to death, an attorney said Friday. Lawyer Gail Mathes said her client, Sherra Wright, was afraid for herself and her children, so she kept quiet about
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Convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, in a telephone interview with actor William Shatner, now says he and John Allen Muhammad shot 42 people during their rampage in 2002, a claim that those who investigated the case say is ridiculous. Malvo’s latest account of the killing rampage — which began in February 2002 in Tacoma, Wash.,
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This spring, over the course of two days and two different cities (New York and Las Vegas), I spent approximately eight hours hanging out with Mike Tyson. The final product is a feature in Sports Illustrated‘s annual “Where Are They Now?” issue, on newsstands this week. Here, below, is a portion of our conversation. SI:
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New York (CNN) — The editor of Essence Magazine defended Wednesday her recent hiring of a white fashion director — a first for the 40-year-old publication that celebrates black women. The hiring of Elliana Placas first sparked outrage when a former Essence employee posted a note on her Facebook page decrying the decision. “It’s with
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Actually, long before then, Washington’s Channel 9 was known as WDVM-TV, which stood for “the District, Maryland and Virginia.” But WDVM died long before the current vogue for “the DMV” (the call letters live on at a small AM radio station in Walkersville, Md.). The real source of the name in its current incarnation, several
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