Posted on 19 July 2012.
COLORADO — Shun Jones, 48, and Amanda Omo-Iyamu, 38, were struck and killed Saturday morning by a 16-year-old youth driving a tractor-trailer as they were pulled to the side of a Colorado highway while changing a flat tire. The two women, who were cousins, were on their way from Texas to visit family members. They […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
Lia Neal isn’t old enough to vote, but she’s already making history. The 17-year-old Brooklyn swimmer placed fourth in the 100-meter freestyle finals in Omaha, NB. That means she’s punched a ticket to the 2012 London Olympics. Neal is only the second African-American woman to make a U.S. Olympic Swim Team, and she’s one of […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
LOS ANGELES — LeBron James was the big winner at the ESPY Awards, collecting three trophies including male athlete of the year for helping the Miami Heat win the NBA championship. James wasn’t on hand for the 20th annual show celebrating the year’s best athletes and moments in sports. He was in Las Vegas with […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Relay sprinter Debbie Dunn has withdrawn from the U.S. Olympic team after testing positive for excessive testosterone. Dunn, who finished fourth in the 400 meters at Olympic trials, was selected for the American relay pool. She is the 2010 world indoor champion at 400 meters. In a statement Friday, she acknowledged a positive doping […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
NEW YORK — New York Knicks point guard Jason Kidd was arrested on a drunken-driving charge after police said he crashed his SUV into a telephone pole in the Hamptons on Sunday, days after signing with the Knicks. Treated at a hospital for minor injuries after the crash, Kidd was arraigned on a misdemeanor driving-while-intoxicated charge […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
Apparently, threatening to shoot the First Lady will only get you transferred to an office space. Authorities are investigating threatening comments made by a D.C. police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for the White House. The unidentified officer is said to have made the comments Wednesday, allegedly telling another officer that he would […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An ongoing criminal case against a former top aide to Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll is transforming into a swirl of allegations about improper relationships, widespread illegal taping and other incidents inside Carroll’s office. The allegations, which Carroll denies, were included in a court filing made late last week by the attorney […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
BROOKLYN, NY — Cindy Gaston, a 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who works as a nanny, plucked the four-year-old boy she was caring for from the path of a stolen jeep that almost killed them both. The near-death accident took place on Thursday when Gaston and the boy, Jonathan Meltzer, were waiting on a corner for a […]
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Posted on 16 July 2012.
DALLAS, TX — Arthur Walker is accused of crashing a truck through a Dallas mall’s glass doors, ramming through several kiosks inside and dressing himself in a Champs Sports store on Friday. Walker allegedly got out of his vehicle and began dressing himself in the store’s clothing. He even slipped on a pair of Air […]
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