The lawyer of a Hollywood actress has threatened to sue a disabled Maryland veteran who started her own charity. Ginger Miller, president of Women Veterans Interactive (WVI), paid Tasha Smith $12,000 to have the actress be their keynote speaker back on Veterans Day at National Harbor. Smith canceled just days before the event and neither […]
A local veterans group is taking an actress to task after it says she accepted a large celebrity appearance fee and then canceled her appearance. A Maryland-based charity that supports women veterans paid Hollywood actress Tasha Smith in advance for a keynote address at National Harbor. But days before the Veterans Day event, Smith canceled. […]
Authorities in Maryland have warned the public about a potential holiday scam that involves the temptation of a $100 bill left on a car windshield. The simple scheme works like this: Drivers walk to their parked cars and, after they get in the vehicle, they notice a $100 bill in the windshield. The driver exits […]
Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry has been hospitalized. Barry’s spokeswoman, LaToya Foster, says the 78-year-old former four-term mayor was admitted to Howard University Hospital on Thursday evening and is resting comfortably. Foster says she doesn’t know about any specific ailments. She says Barry just wasn’t feeling well. Barry had a serious blood infection […]
President Barack Obama told the American people that the time to change the nation’s immigration system is now, and he’s taking action to make that happen. In a nationally televised address Thursday night from the White House, Obama said it doesn’t make sense to round up and deport millions of people living in the country […]
The gay man who claims to have been “converted” during COGIC’s annual convocation insists it was not a scam. “I’m not gay no more,” said Andrew Caldwell in a video posted to YouTube. The Church of God In Christ said Caldwell’s supposed “conversion” does not represent the entire event. “I don’t like men no more,” said […]
Prolific best selling author and internationally renowned preacher and business coach Dr. Myles Munroe of Bahamas Faith Ministries International and his wife Mrs. Ruth Ann Munroe, died in a plane crash earlier today in the Bahamas. According to The Associated Press, the plane, reportedly struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard, exploding on impact and crashing into […]
D.C. police say what initially appeared to be a fire has now turned into a murder investigation. Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, D.C. firefighters responded to a vacant townhome in the 2700 block of Langston Place SE for a report of a fire. They found the burned body of 26-year-old Latroia Renee Smith inside. Authorities […]
A gunman in a headscarf fatally shot a soldier guarding Canada’s war memorial, according to a report, and up to 50 other shots rang out in Parliament and near a shopping mall in downtown Ottawa early Wednesday — wounding two others — as cops frantically searched the area for other shooters. Dramatic raw video taken […]
When I started this journey for Domestic Violence Month, I didn’t really know what to expect. The farther I went in, I realized that, as a man, as a person, as a lover of God, I needed to check myself and how I treat people. Domestic Violence comes in many forms…marital rape, physical abuse, verbal […]
Baltimore City school teacher is accused of fighting a student. The altercation, which spilled out of a classroom into the hallways at Carver Vocational High School in West Baltimore on Friday, was caught on camera. The teacher in the video is seen wearing black pants and a gray top and could be heard threatening the […]
Dr. Bobby Jones has the longest continuous running original series on cable television, which he said does not come without challenges. Jones, 75, recently returned to BET for the 34th year of his show, “Bobby Jones Gospel.” Since the show airs at 9 a.m. ET on Sunday mornings, many people who would tune in are […]