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VIA HipHopWired: The King’s back.  Not that one.  One of the legendary Kings Of R&B, Ron “Mr. Biggs” Isley has been released from prison after serving three years for tax evasion. Speaking with comedian Steve Harvey, Isley said, “I’m overjoyed to be home and to be able to do everything that I want to do.  […]

Rescue crews continued scouring the waters of the Gulf of Mexico today looking for 11 missing drilling rig workers even as the rig, which had been burning since Tuesday night, sank beneath the waves. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said the rig sank at 10:20 a.m. A few hours later, Coast Guard officials confirmed again […]

Actor Danny Glover and 11 others have been arrested during a labor union protest at the Maryland headquarters of a food service company. Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks says Glover and others stepped past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, Starks says […]

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will shut down its entire Main Street light-rail line for much of the weekend to make way for construction of a bridge for Texas Children’s Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Read more

  Appearing via satellite at the Discovery Communications upfronts in Los Angeles, Oprah Winfrey played clips from her upcoming reality series “Behind the Scenes: The Oprah Show Final Season,” which follows the TV host as she works on the last episodes of her talk show. Read more

Via NewsOne.com: Near the launch pads where U.S. space voyages begin, President Barack Obama will try to reassure workers that America’s space adventures sail on despite the coming end of space shuttle flights. [Today] Obama will also try to explain why he aborted his predecessor’s return-to-the moon plan in favor of a complicated system of […]

Via ABCLOCALGO.com: By Elissa Rivas Police in Baytown say a man has confessed to the murders of two teenage girls whose bodies were found in a burning home on Sunday. Joseph Francois Jean, 37, has been charged with one count of capital murder. He’s being held at the Harris County jail without bond. Baytown police […]

From WGNTv.com: CHICAGO – Four people were killed and two injured this morning after a man went on a deadly rampage on the city’s south side. Chicago police held an impromptu news conference this morning near the home of a deadly multiple shooting that left four family members dead on the scene and two others […]

Via ABCLOCAL.Go.com and KTRK: The fire broke out around 9:30am at the garage on San Felipe at Augusta. By 10:15am, firefighters called for three alarms, and by 10:35am, it was officially tapped out. The black smoke pouring from the garage could be seen for miles. Firefighters say there were 10 to 12 cars on the […]

From CNN: Augusta, Georgia — Tiger Woods returns to golf Monday at the Masters, ending a self-imposed exile stemming from a November car accident outside his home and his subsequent admission of extramarital affairs amid a media frenzy. Woods is set to participate in a news conference — his first since the scandal broke — […]

VIA CNN: Mexican authorities dispatched engineers to check damaged houses and buildings Monday in Baja California state following a major earthquake Sunday that left two people dead. The Federal Electricity Commission was also working to restore power in the city of Mexicali, state-run news agency Notimex reported. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck northwest Baja California Sunday, […]

        LOS ANGELES – Damage reports from the U.S.-Mexico border region are growing after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake in Baja California that was felt from Tijuana and Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Phoenix. The quake struck south of Mexicali, Mexico, at 3:40 p.m. Sunday, but damage also was being reported north of […]