TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
While the nation’s attention has been focused on the alarming homicide rate in Chicago, Oakland has been enduring a rise in murders in 2013. According to HuffingtonPost, a San Francisco rapper named K.O. Da Bandit (AKA Keith Head) was shot and killed in downtown Oakland Tuesday night. The 22-year-old was shot at 13th Street and Broadway near the 12th Street […]
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Former Nappy Roots member R. Prophet was involved in a violent confrontation with the Kentucky State Police this week; and the rapper is currently facing felony charges. Prophet, born Kenneth Anthony, 35, was a passenger in a vehicle that was reportedly stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Elizabethtown. The police state that he wasn’t arrested […]
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Federal prosecutors indict 13 female correctional officers, for helping seven inmates and five others with a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, cellphones and other contraband into a Baltimore jail and other corrections facilities. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly […]
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