MGM Resorts International is now under investigation thanks to a tweet from the underage son of NBA legend Michael Jordan. Marcus Jordan’s boast on Twitter about partying at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub has prompted Nevada gambling regulators to examine whether the casino operator violated laws prohibiting drinking or gambling by minors. Jordan’s [...]

A Texas man slit his throat in a court room after being sentenced to 40 years behind bars. 47-year-old Marcial Anguiano took the stand Tuesday hoping to be sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault for cutting his niece with a butcher knife. District Judge Larry Mitchell says he decided against [...]

Here we go again. The Hurricane Katrina nightmare continues. A story at the Washington Post tells the tale of how New Orleans’ recovery diverges for affluent whites and low-income blacks. For people who were well-off before the storm, they are more likely to be back in their homes, back in their jobs and [...]

When Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, crawled into the chimney of her alleged “on again-off again” boyfriend last Wednesday night she was not bringing presents. After trying to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by way of chimney last week, her body was found decomposing there three days later. According to Bakersfiled California [...]

The drama was initiated by of course Stacks when she wrote on the NBA player’s Twitter: “hey @carmeloanthony do you taste like caramel?” From there, a back and forth dispute went on between the poser and the wife. Anthony also responded, writing: “I got 5k for whoever see @ihatekatstacks and slap the s**t out [...]

Remember when I told ya’ll about all the stars at Lauryn Hill’s “Rock the Bells” show? Well I forgot to mention that she also had all seven (yes… I said 7!) of her children there too. And Lauryn brought all of her kids onstage at Rock the Bells in New York last Saturday. [...]

The 99 Cents stores are the business; this is where the discount shopper really lives. Dollar Tree stores and 99 Cents Only stores are putting up a substantial fight against discount bosses like WalMart. Since earlier this year, big bargain stores have been pushing hard to entice low income shoppers, but they seem [...]

The New Orleans Saints have recruited Oscar-nominated actor and humanitarian Brad Pitt to narrate “America’s Game: 2009 New Orleans Saints,” a documentary about the team’s Super Bowl XLIV victory against the Indianapolis Colts. The film debuts on the NFL Network on Sept. 8, the night before the Saints’ first game of the regular season.

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The other day, I was in the store and a man started a conversation with me. At the end of the talk, he asked not for my phone number, but for my Facebook name. At first I was a bit taken aback, not offended (he wasn’t cute), but surprised and a bit relieved [...]

Comedian Bill Cosby and the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined syndicated radio personality Rickey Smiley in Detroit Thursday for the city’s second annual Back to School parade and rally downtown. Scores of parents, teachers and kids sporting blue “I’m In” T-shirts marched along Woodward in a parade that culminated with the rally at Hart Plaza.

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A grown ass man needed to play against kids to compete. A 21-year-old Florida man has been charged with trespassing after posing as a middle school student in order to play youth football. Julious Threatts, 21, used the name Chad Johnson to register for a Tampa Youth Football League comprised of 13 and [...]

The ex-prostitute who became famous in 1995 for her $50 rendezvous with Hugh Grant has publicly thanked the actor for “changing” her life – because she was able to carve out a “wonderful” new existence in the scandal’s wake. After the British actor was arrested in Los Angeles with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown, she [...]

Police pulled over the car in which Paris was riding on Las Vegas’s famed Strip when an officer smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle. Hilton was taken into the nearby Wynn Las Vegas hotel “at her request,” where she was placed in a holding room and took lip balm from her purse. Paris’s [...]

An 18-year-old Pittsburgh teen that was violently beaten by police with his dreadlocks ripped out is filing a lawsuit against his attackers. Jordan Miles and his family have decided to file a federal lawsuit against the three white Pittsburgh police officers that he says beat him and conspired to file false charges against him [...]

Would you cough up that much cash for a cell phone? Yeah, we wouldn’t either. But aren’t you curious to find out what makes this phone so special? You can thank the fine folks at Gresso for creating a utterly useless piece of opulence for the filthy, disgustingly rich to spend their not-so hard-earned [...]

OJ Simpson’s daughter Arnelle Simpson is suspected of laundering money for her felon dad. Arnelle, 41, is the target of legal action, accusing her of laundering money for her dad. The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court, accuses Arnelle of hiding and spending the estimated $780,000 O.J. received as an advance for [...]

The New York Yankees have taken their relationship with Jay-Z to a whole new level. After adopting the rap mogul’s “Empire State of Mind” as its unofficial anthem last fall, the ballclub has now teamed with its No. 1 fan to sell co-branded clothing that will only be available at Yankee Stadium for a [...]

Conservative radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is hosting a rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech — but he says the date was not chosen intentionally. “Whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln,” Beck said in a recent broadcast of his Fox [...]

The numbers are staggering. The problem is overwhelming. The government reported Thursday that in the past year, 4.4 percent of inmates in prison and 3.1 percent of inmates in jail report being victimized sexually by another inmate or staff member. According to a study by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, those [...]

DEA agents made a huge discovery in San Diego County, recovering 25,000 marijuana plants with a street value of $100 million. Drug Enforcement officials announced Wednesday that they made the discovery during a raid on the Santa Ysabel Indian Reservation. Officials say this is the second largest marijuana field found this year in [...]