America has long been a melting pot of different cultures, ethnicities, religions, and creeds. And with African-Americans historically being underrepesented in centers of power due to years of oppression, a celebration of African-American businesspeople is warranted. One of the most diverse groups in terms of methods of accruing...
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Stefan Chayne Bailey, 18, was arrested Tuesday.
Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said Bailey banged on the front and back doors of a Waller County sheriff deputy’s home in the Bridgestone subdivision in Spring about 10 a.m.
Bailey then crawled through a window and the sheriff’s deputy pulled out his gun,...
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SALISBURY — Two women were arrested in the parking lot at Sandy’s One Stop on Tuesday after deputies said a 20-year-old try to run over another woman with her car.
According to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, Brooke Ashton Royston was charged after she followed 20-year-old Mary Beyer through Rockwell to the gas...
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LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A Kentucky man was arrested after he offered $10,000 on Facebook for help finding his ex-girlfriend and her son, and then tracked them to a Longmont women’s shelter, police said.
Joshua Payne was arrested Saturday on suspicion of domestic violence, felony stalking and felony to commit stalking. Police...
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Schoolchildren have been setting up special Facebook ‘burn’ pages to post vile and abusive messages about their peers.
Police have now said they are cracking down on the phenomenon and have warned pupils to start removing their names and comments – many of them sexual – off the pages.
Officers estimate as...
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CHARLOTTE – The Better Business Bureau serving the Southern Piedmont of N.C. and S.C. has released a list of the top 10 scams of 2011. Most of these scams originated online, often from foreign countries. Scammers used the anonymity provided by the Internet to victimize millions of people, efficiently and effectively.
“Online, a...
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Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female...
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A hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.
If you pass Norrie on the sidewalk, you won’t be able to tell if she is a man or woman.
The 49-year-old walks through her barefoot and wearing a dress. She is flat-chested, has an Adam’s Apple,...
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‘Bloggers Beware’
That was the headline on a conservative blog following a $2.5 million judgment this month against blogger Crystal Cox in a defamation case tried in federal court in Oregon. It’s a case followed closely in both the blogosphere and in the traditional media, as it highlights the proliferation of blogging,...
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SAN FRANCISCO — A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.
Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do was pass a background check.
It turned up a 14-count...
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An Allen realtor pleaded guilty on Dec. 8 to a felony harassment charge after accessing an ex-employee’s Facebook account and using it to send insulting messages to her friends.
James Patrick Delagarza, 41, owns First Premier Realty, a real estate agency that sells homes in Allen, Anna, Frisco, Garland, McKinney and Plano. He...
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I am thinking about the term ‘stalking’. It’s a word that was once used only to describe when a person physically hid in the bushes of their target stalkee, literally followed them home, went through their rubbish etc. Recently however, it has managed to nudge its way into everyday usage. Along with ‘perving’,...
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