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VIA CNN: Las Vegas resident, Johnny Wicks, apparently disgruntled over the loss of a recent Social Security claim opened fire with a shotgun in a federal courthouse Monday, killing a court security officer and injuring a deputy U.S. marshal, authorities said. Law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity identified the man as Johnny Wicks, […]

VIA CBS2 CHICAGO: CHICAGO (CBS) ―Eunice Johnson, the widow of Ebony Magazine founder John H. Johnson and an icon in the world of fashion, has died, according to a published report. Crain’s Chicago Business reported that Eunice Johnson died Sunday. She was in her 90s. Eunice Johnson may have lived in the shadows of her […]

VIA MACON.COM: WARNER ROBINS — Citing flawed membership intake processes at chapters across the country, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity incorporated has put a halt to new membership processes nationwide. The ruling, announced to active members in a letter from the fraternity’s General President Herman “Skip” Mason Jr., comes nearly a month after a member […]

VIA REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Money, or the lack of it, changes everything, and that includes how people will be working out in 2010. In these belt-tightening times, cost-conscious workouts at home and at the gym topped the list of fitness trends for this year in a survey, followed by shorter, more time-efficient […]

VIA REUTERS: NEWARK (Reuters) – A man bypassed a security checkpoint at Newark International Airport, prompting an hours-long lockdown of a terminal at one of the busiest U.S. airports, federal officials said. The New Jersey airport’s Terminal C was cleared after the security breach at 5:20 p.m. EST (2220 GMT) on Sunday, the Transportation Security […]

VIA MSNBC: Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren might have spent the holiday apart — he in seclusion in the United States, she skiing in the French Alps — but that doesn’t mean things are over. “Tiger and Elin still love each other,” according to a person close to the couple. “Although there is […]

VIA CNN: A new decade is about to start, and you may be tempted to set a copious list of resolutions for yourself in order to broadly “make life better.” You may be thinking that you’ll jump in on January 1 to reform everything from diet to relationships to personality. That, experts say, is the […]

VIA THE HUFFINGTON POST: X17 reports that Tiger Woods is attending rehab in Arizona. A source tells the web site that Woods’ “handlers” compelled him to enter rehab because “they feel that if he blames his cheating on addiction, the public will forgive him.” While the source does not specify what addiction Woods would be […]

VIA REUTERS: HONOLULU (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was resting comfortably at a hospital in Hawaii on Wednesday after suffering chest pains, his website said. Local KITV television, citing unnamed sources, said earlier that Limbaugh, 58, was in serious condition at Honolulu’s Queen’s Medical Center after being treated at a […]

VIA CNN: African-Americans are extremely supportive of President Obama, but their enthusiasm appears to have dramatically dropped from earlier this year, according to a new national poll. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, released Tuesday, also indicates that Obama’s presidency appears to have made blacks more optimistic about race relations, but less than one in five […]