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*Here we go again with another scandalous story out of Detroit. We have no idea why they have so many stories making national news…well, ok, maybe this one. Mr. C’s Tire Shop on Mack Avenue on the eastside of Detroit has given up the reasoning behind the “C” in their name. We thought there was [...]
*The police always report from heinous crime scenes saying things like, “In my 35 years on the force, I’ve never seen anything like this.” Well, this time, we believe them. James Parham, 75, has been accused of providing crack and prostitutes to the elderly residents of the New Jersey Englewood Senior Living home. In other [...]
*There have been a few people convicted of crimes that have garnered nationwide support to either release them from jail or have them removed from death row… not this time. In 1997, Kimberly McCarthy, 51, was accused of killing her neighbor Dorothy Booth, a 71-year-old retired college psychology professor in Lancaster, Texas, approximately 15 miles [...]
*Haven’t you heard some really bizarre crack stories? Like “A crack head broke into my house and tried to sell me my own necklace?” Or “A crack head broke into the Baskin Robbins and started selling ice cream on the street with a spoon, but no cups or cones.” Well, those days are back again. [...]
*Earlier this week, Star Jones suggested that CNN’s Anderson Cooper may have announced he was gay to help improve ratings for his daytime talk show, and compared the practice to Oprah Winfrey revealing that she smoked crack. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Jones made the comment as part of the “Professionals” panel on the Today [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg had the day off on “The View” today and sitting in for her was Mary J. Blige. Of course the panel asked her about her recent experience attending Whitney Houston’s memorial service, which she attended despite her normal policy of never going to funerals. And Mary being Mary became visibly emotional describing her [...]
*One of the most hopeless exhibitions I’ve ever seen displayed in our community was recently recorded by young black men in a New Orleans neighborhood. They are probably making fun of this man that would be labeled a “crack head” because they are amused by a song he sings that is an amazing cover of [...]
*Canada is having a problem with their drug community and they are trying to find a way to crack down on the use of drugs which have been spreading disease. Now how they came up with handing out free crack pipes to remedy the situation is a little more imaginative or thinking outside the box [...]
*The “crack” era swept through the nation like a whirlwind. In one fleeting moment, the already economically devastated urban communities of America became war torn battle zones brimming with despair and dead bodies and a new target for the prison system … crack offenders. Those who sold the “death rocks” and rattled the foundation of [...]
Ex-NFL standout Plaxico Burress spent almost twenty (20) months behind bars for carrying a handgun without a permit. It was his first criminal offense, he accidently shot himself and nobody else was harmed. Still he was sentenced to two years in prison and served all but three months of his jail time before being released [...]
*Daytime diva Wendy Williams got a little personal and quite emotional on her show the other day when she spoke of Whitney Houston’s recent rehab check-in. She mentioned that the rehab could be a way of clearance to participate in the “Waiting to Exhale” sequel. While speaking, Wendy reminisced about her drug past, which brought [...]
*Everyday we hear the plight of young people growing up in barren, hopeless, war torn communities … right here in the U.S. The urban jungles where people are shot and killed daily, drugs are a part of their lives whether they want it to be or not and hope is nothing but a word with [...]
*Crack is whack, but alcohol is worse? What’chu talkin’ bout Willis? Somebody is going to have to show more scientific evidence behind this study because nobody is buyin’ it in the hood. This study was done in London, so there may be some differences between how crack and alcohol are used socially. The experts overseas [...]
*WASHINGTON – President Obama today signed an historic piece of legislation that narrows the crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1 and for the first time eliminates the mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of crack cocaine. The Fair Sentencing Act (S. 1789), unanimously passed by the Senate in March and approved [...]
*Washington – On Wednesday The House passed a bill that would make much needed changes to current cocaine sentencing laws and which will now go to President Obama’s desk for signature. The bill, the Fair Sentencing Act (S. 1789), was unanimously passed by the Senate in March. As originally introduced in the Senate, the bill [...]
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