Jay-Z, who won a Grammy Award for his release Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life, came from an environment of drugs and crime in Brooklyn, N.Y., and launched a hip-hop career in the early ’90s.
Rapper Jay-Z’s alleged stabbing victim is showering him with phone calls and personal visits, the musician’s [...]
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The grandmother of Rae Carruth’s child is asking a judge to give her control of the former football player’s house and cars so she can sell them and use the proceeds for the baby’s child support.
The 26-year-old Carruth, a former wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers, is charged with first-degree [...]
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Deepak Chopra became a spiritual leader for millions of people in America and around the world. His teachings include such bits of wisdom as, “If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules.”
In an extraordinary development, a judge today threw out a unanimous jury verdict against spiritual guru Deepak [...]
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John “Jumbo” Elliott is a left tackle for the NFL’s New York Jets.
The NFL today disciplined four players under its new anti-crime policy, three of them offensive linemen who were involved in a fight outside a bar last summer.
Matt O’Dwyer, now with the Cincinnati Bengals, and Jumbo Elliott of the New [...]
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M.C. Hammer is best known as a novelty rapper whose hits “U Can’t Touch This” and “The Addams Family” helped pave the way for the popularity of modern rap. His albums included Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em and Too Legit to Quit. Hammer retired from music to become a preacher.
Rapper-turned-preacher [...]
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Police say a 37-year-old man who allegedly broke into a home here had an alibi that was out of this world — that aliens picked him up 170 miles away in Davenport and dropped him off at the stranger’s house.
Police were not convinced and charged Brian Waddington with second-degree burglary after [...]
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The attorney for action star Jean-Claude Van Damme is alleging police misconduct in the DUI case against his client, saying officers detained the martial arts movie star in search of “a big arrest.”
Van Damme was charged in September with driving under the influence after deputies from the West Hollywood Sheriff’s [...]
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Basketball’s Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a former Los Angeles Lakers All-Star. He also is famous for announcing that he was HIV positive during a time when the public attached a high level of stigma to the disease.
Police are investigating a massage therapist’s claim that basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson forcibly [...]
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Close to 40 years after three inmates fled from the supposedly escape-proof Alcatraz island prison, the search for them — dead or alive — continues.
The U.S. Marshal’s Service says the Alcatraz escape is its oldest open case. Since 1979, it has continued to follow leads, mostly dead ends.
FBI documents and a [...]
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The undercover police officer who posed as a prostitute in a sting operation to nab Jody “Babydol” Gibson took the stand today as the trial of the alleged Hollywood madam began.
But it was word about others who might testify that set the tone for the trial’s first day. Four alleged call [...]
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