After weeks of countless shooting-related deaths in Chicago, hundreds gathered at Chicago State University on Friday for the Emergency Summit on Urban Violence, led by the Congressional Black Caucus, to discuss finding a solution to gun violence thro ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 4:57PM
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A stripper has won a lawsuit against Nebraska police who confiscated over $1 million cash - all in singles - that belonged to her during a routine traffic stop.
Tara Mishra, 33, stripped for 15 years and managed to save $1,074,000, and she gave the ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 3:53PM
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A California couple born on the same day and married for 75 years, died only one day apart. According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, Helen and Les Brown died on July 16 and 17 respectively, both were 94. Zach Henderson, owner of the Ma N'Pa Groc ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 3:12PM
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It’s been just over a week since Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and, so far, there are more questions than answers about how this will all shake out. On Wednesday, a U.S. Bankruptcy judge ruled Detroit’s Chapter 9 ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 2:36PM
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Remember the Middle Class Task Force? Gee, how could you have forgotten? President Obama set up this group shortly after taking office in 2009, to identify the strains weighing on mainstream Americans and come up with solutions. So far, the MCTF has ...
Posted Sunday, July 28th 2013 at 2:26PM
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(AtlantaBlackStar.com) A staggering number of African-American children are raised in single parent homes, compared to the rest of America, and the rest of the world. A study conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development foun ...
Posted Saturday, July 27th 2013 at 2:26PM
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The woes of adulthood are hitting today’s children too fast and not only via the pernicious influences of popular culture, marketing and peer pressure. More and more children are being diagnosed with chronic diseases that have previously been only se ...
Posted Saturday, July 27th 2013 at 10:35AM
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Back in February, I lamented here the fact that in order to continue my cruise job, I would have to recertify my BLS and ACLS. I thought that was over with when I retired from hospital nursing. My main source of annoyance was that I was going to hav ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 9:20PM
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We're one step closer to constructing our Home Depot-sponsored outdoor pavilion. Representatives from Home Depot stopped by Oakwood this week, to present the $50,000 award (in gift cards, as displayed), that you helped us win by voting for OU in the ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:11PM
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Boren Scholarship Funds Student’s Study Abroad Program
A Bowie State University undergraduate with dreams of becoming an immigration lawyer will travel to her childhood home of Nigeria in the fall to study the Yoruba language, as a recipient of th ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 3:06PM
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YOUR WORLD AND NATIONAL NEWS
DAY 25
July 2013
They've been hacked!
At least 160 million credit cards numbers were hacked by a ring of hackers from companies includes J.C. Penny, 7-Eleven, JetBlue, Heartland Payment Systems and the Carrefour. ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 10:08AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
JULY 2013
DAY 26
RIO DE JANEIRO , Brazil
With thousands of followers everywhere the Pope's visit to Brazil has been one which will be with record-breaking memories. Brazilians of the faith are exceedingly giving the Pope wide ...
Posted Friday, July 26th 2013 at 9:08AM
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You go through nine months of preparation, but nothing really prepares you for the moment an infant is wrapped in pink or blue and placed in your arms. And then it hits you—you’re a parent. It’s not like babysitting or being in charge of your younger ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 8:41PM
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(CNN) -- Odin Lloyd, who authorities allege was murdered by former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, carved a reputation as a trophy-accumulating athlete who in school had a mischievous streak for jokes and pranks, relatives said. Lloyd, ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 5:37PM
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...The new Affordable Care Act, which expands health-insurance coverage and cuts half a trillion dollars from Medicare, aims to slow the growth in health care spending by encouraging more coordinated patient care and rewarding quality over quantity. ...
Posted Thursday, July 25th 2013 at 5:19PM
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