Authorities are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the person who sent powder-filled letters to 17 HISD schools last week. Officials said the substance in the envelopes was not dangerous, but the FBI was investigating. Envelopes were sent to Askew Elementary, Austin High School, Lewis Elementary/Bellfort Academy, Alcott Elementary, Almeda Elementary, Anderson Elementary, […]

Police want to speak to a woman who called for a taxi about an hour before a cab driver was gunned down early Thursday morning, the second cabbie fatally shot this week. Here is the phone call to Yellow Cab from a woman identifying herself as “Shantay.” The call was placed about 2:53 a.m. on […]

From the “Blogesphere,” an interesting perspective on “The Greatest”  — Muhamad Ali. Read More:

*Before she and her co-host Joy Behar walked out on Bill O’Reilly this morning, “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg announced that she will tape a segment of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that celebrates the 25th anniversary of “The Color Purple.” http://www.eurweb.com/?p=57870

Huggy Lowdown, Chris Thomas and legendary singer/songwriter Betty Wright came by the Majic Studio to pay us a visit and interview on air! Check out the photos!

  *As Holly Robinson Peete prepares for the Oct. 18 debut of her CBS talk show, the actress and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete, were reported to owe more than $156,000 in delinquent federal taxes, according to public records. The IRS filed a $156,573 lien against the couple July 22 with the Los […]

Down in the delta of Indianola, Mississippi in 1891, a prominent Fisk University graduate by the name of Minnie Cox would be appointed the first African-American postmaster in Mississippi. From a well-to-do family in the south, she was favored among the black elites. However, her re-appointment to a third-term as postmaster would almost cost Cox […]

Funkster George Clinton is still rocking at the age of 70, in part because he’s still owed millions of dollars in royalties for his Parliament/Funkadelic work over the past several decades. As he explains in TV One’s latest edition of “Unsung,” which re-airs on Monday, Oct. 18th at 10 p.m., many recording artists were robbed […]

Say it ain’t so. With the future of his NBA career in question, it looks like former league MVP Allen Iverson is ready to take his talents to…Turkey?! Dude, if that’s really the case, let us be the first to say: It’s time for you to retire. TheBVX provides 10 reasons why.

Police released the 911 recording of a woman who reported that an armed man broke into her home and shot her husband Sunday in Brazoria County. The fatal shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. in the 3100 block of Springdale near Fallbrook, in the Silverlake community. Anthony Williams, 36, was found dead in his kitchen and […]

Finance

Here’s a list of 10 spending mistakes that, if avoided, will make us all more prosperous.  Read More: