Author Archives: Brittany Buchanan

Updated 11/30//2012– Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has launched a new children’s charity, Mike Tyson Cares Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to “give kids a fighting chance,” and Tyson plans to provide centers that will provide aid to children of broken homes. The foundation will provide youth with healthcare, school assistance, shelter, mentoring, job mentoring […]

Police seized 43 pounds of Khat, an East African and southern Arabian stimulant drug inbound from France to an address on the west side of Chicago. The U.S Department of Homeland Security intercepted the package, addressed to the 2600 block of West 15th Street in Chicago, earlier in November, the Cook County sheriff’s office told […]

Kevin Clash, the former puppeteer of Elmo on “Sesame Street,” faces new charges of sexual abuse, this time from a Florida man who claims Clash met him in New York almost 12 years ago after prowling gay telephone chat lines in search of sex with underage boys. The lawsuit was filed Nov. 27 in U.S District Court […]

The Los Angeles Police Department was ordered to pay $1.6 million in damages to a disabled man after officers used excessive force in his arrest. A Los Angeles Superior Court Jury found Nov. 7 that officers used unnecessary force in the 2009 arrest of 56-year-old Allen Harris, who sustained a broken collar bone and nerve […]

Democrat Steve Horsford, a veteran Nevada legislator and higher education administrator, became the first African American to represent the state in the U.S. Congress in a closer than expected victory over the son of a famous college basketball coach. Horsford won a close election against Republican Danny Tarkanian for the state’s House of Representatives’ seat […]

Sometimes, lightning does strikes twice. After winning $300,000 in an Indiana lottery game in August, Lena Eaton, a 91-year-old Indianapolis, Ind. great-grandmother, took home $99,999 from a scratch-off ticket Nov. 1. Mother of six children, grandmother of 16 and great-grandmother of 20, she is already spreading the wealth to her family. “It’s been a pleasure […]

Rwanda’s highest court on Oct. 30 sentenced opposition politician Victorie Ingabrie to eight years in prison on charges connected to that country’s 1994 genocide. Ingabrie was charged with six offenses: creating an armed group, complicity in terrorist acts, complicity in endangering the state through terrorism and armed violence, divisionism, genocide ideology, and spreading rumors intended […]

Anti-gay and anti-Obama text messages flooded hundreds of phones Oct. 30, the apparent work of a Republican-leaning communications firm which refuted any wrongdoing in the incident. The messages were linked on Oct. 31 to ccAdvertising, a Centreville, Va.-based communications firm. GoDaddy.com, which publicly identified the firm as being responsible for the messages, suspended them for […]

False tweets swarmed the Internet during the height of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29, claiming floodwaters of more than three feet had entered the New York Stock Exchange. “BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water,” read a tweet by Twitter user, “Comfortablysmug.” The message was […]