About Bobby B.

VIA EURWEB: The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation. Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman surprised students at an all-school assembly at Urban Prep Academy […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: He lurks at gas stations and pay phones and bus stops, blending in so well that people don’t notice him at first. He has a smooth, deep voice. He is black, he smokes, and he is right-handed. He is in his early to mid-30s, is fit, stands about 6 feet tall, […]

VIA MY FOX DC: PepsiCo says it’s raising prices on its popular Tropicana orange juice because of the deep freeze that hurt much of Florida’s citrus crop. The company is shrinking its most popular size by about 8 percent — while maintaining its price — and raising prices on another size starting in May. The […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — It was always hard to be old in Haiti, but after the earthquake, to be old and poor feels like a curse, say those who are both. “We struggle to maintain a little dignity, but look at us,” said Lauranise Gedeon, who sat, embarrassed, in soiled sheets in […]

Most Americans believe God is involved in their daily lives, from parking tickets to football scores to losing those extra pounds. That’s the finding from a Canadian researcher who looked at two U.S. surveys on the subject. Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, found that 82-percent of respondents depended on […]

VIA CNN: Superintendent John Covington called for the closing or consolidation of almost half of the schools in the Kansas City, Missouri, school district, and a school board voted Wednesday to approve the downsizing. Covington calls it the “right-size” plan,” but many residents say it’s plain wrong. A packed room of people watched the board […]

VIA THE DETROIT FREE PRESS: Take full advantage of the trusted Winans name, a gospel dynasty and Detroit church powerhouse. Use sophisticated-sounding investments like a “Saudi Arabian crude oil bond” to sell unsophisticated investors and churchgoers the chance of a lifetime. Play up the idea that oil prices are skyrocketing. Mix in some greed and […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A civil lawsuit alleging that a Prince George’s County police officer beat a young man outside a nightclub without provocation and then collaborated with another officer to falsely charge the man was settled Monday afternoon after attorneys for both sides delivered opening arguments in Circuit Court in Upper Marlboro. The civil […]

VIA ROLLING OUT: Tiger Woods’ caddie for the past decade, Steve Williams, angrily refuted on New Zealand’s “60 Minutes” that he had any inkling that Woods was a serial marital cheater. Furthermore, Williams says had he known that Woods was such a prolific panty pursuer, he would have blown the whistle on his boss before […]

VIA CBS 3: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how a child was allowed to direct air traffic at the nation’s sixth-busiest airport – New York’s JFK International. As CBS News Correspondent Kelly Wallace reports, the Feb. 17 incident involved a child on the radio to pilots of planes awaiting takeoff. The boy was allowed […]