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For the second consecutive year, a Detroit Lions star will be featured on the cover of the Madden football video game, but this time it's retired legend rather than a still-active player.

Running back Barry Sanders will grace the cover of EA Sports' special anniversary edition of the game, dubbed Madden NFL 25. He won the honor in an online…

 Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of the civil rights movement are one step closer to receiving Congress’ highest civilian honor.

By a 420-0 vote, the House has passed a measure that posthumously would award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia…

Oh yes, Wendy Williams is cracking down on the ladies of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” She said during her Monday show that Phaedra Parks needs to go.

(Hmm, wonder what Phaedra thinks of her “friend” now? When we interviewed her 2 years ago, we tried to ask about her her husband Apollo, she shut down, literally. Interview over.  We said we…

 You knew this remix was coming!…

According to the Miami-Dade police , the incident occurred around 9:35 A.M. and a suspect in the murder has already been arrested. 27 year old Rob Dobson was apprehended by police in connection to Bain’s murder and provided an affidavit confessing to the murder.

In the…

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A 42-year-old woman is on trial for allegedly grabbing a man’s genitals after he told her not to park her electric bike in front of his store.

He later died from shock, according to reports.…

According to KFOR News:

One of the state’s first openly gay politicians is attacked in a possible hate crime. Police said Jim Roth, former county commissioner and one-time member of the corporation commission, got assaulted by three men outside a metro bar earlier this…

via NBC News

Miami-Dade Police said Tuesday night they have arrested a 27-year-old man in connection with the fatal shooting of the brother of the famous female rapper Trina in northwest Miami Tuesday morning.

Ron Dobson faces a…

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These aren’t the family values Mitt Romney talked about. Adam Savader, 21, a former campaign intern for the Republican presidential candidate, was arrested in his Great Neck, L.I., home Tuesday by FBI agents and charged with cyber-stalking and…

Via Daily Mail reports:

Police found the body of a man in the Providence River and they think it is ‘very possible’ that it is missing student Sunil Tripathi who was wrongly accused of being one of the Boston Marathon bombers.…

Ginger Howard is a 17-year-old golf superstar who needs to be on your radar! Move over Tiger Woods! There’s another brown face on the golf course and this time, it’s a woman! Ginger is truly a Black girl who…

A 75-year-old Detroit-area woman who killed her grandson expressed remorse Thursday but repeatedly accused his parents of dumping a troubled boy at her doorstep during a desperate, emotional plea to avoid a prison sentence that likely means death behind bars.

The judge wasn’t swayed, sending Sandra Layne away…

Police have arrested a Memphis man and his son after the father allegedly brandished an AK-47 at a fast-food restaurant when their order got messed up.

The Commercial Appeal reported that the incident happened on Thursday at Pirtle’s Chicken in Memphis. Police say the men — 45-year-old Antonius Hart Sr. and 19-year-old Antonius Hart…

A Selma high school teacher has been arrested on sex crime charges after authorities say she had inappropriate relationships with two students.

The Selma Times-Journal reports  LaTengela Williams, a health teacher at Selma High School, was jailed Friday with bond set at more than $1 million.

District Attorney Michael Jackson says…

Good Morning America and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon have been left scrambling for guests today (Tuesday) -- because Reese Witherspoon has bailed on them.

Reese -- who was supposed to be making the media rounds to plug her film Mud -- is lying low following her disorderly persons arrest over the weekend. She was scheduled to tape a segment for GMA yesterday…

Lauryn Hill is a free woman -- at least for two weeks.

She was supposed to be sentenced for failing to file tax returns from 2005 through 2007 on Monday, but the sentencing was bumped for two weeks to give the one-time Fugee time to pay off the $968,000 she owes Uncle Sam.

According to TMZ, Lauryn's attorney said that she recently inked a new…

The parents of Trayvon Martin have written a letter of support to the parents of the 8-year-old boy killed in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, according to theGrio.

8-year-old Martin Richard was one of the three people killed when two bombs were set off near the end of the race, where the youngster was cheering…

In the hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with the crime that could lead to the death penalty, authorities tell ABC News the 19-year-old accused terrorist has started to provide his version of the events that led to the deadly Boston marathon bomb attacks.

For all the power of the two explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line, and for all the…