Sloane Stephens is hurt and confused by the perceived snubbing from Serena Williams. In an interview with ESPN The Magazine, Sloane Stephens heavily criticizes Serena Williams, saying that the elder American hasn’t spoken to her since Stephens upset Williams in the Australian Open quarterfinals. “She’s not said one word to me, not spoken to […]
DNA available, testing denied, execution set for today
7 May 2013 by
Convicted double murderer Willie Jerome Manning, who has been on death row for nearly two decades, is set to be executed Tuesday, after being denied a DNA test that could save him from the execution chamber, the New York Times reports. In a 5-to-4 decision in April, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that there was […]
Payday Loans cost jobs and lots of money
5 May 2013 by
CNBC: Payday loans cost the U.S. economy nearly $1 billion and thousands of jobs in 2011, according to a report from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. The study says that the burden of repaying the loans resulted in $774 million in lost consumer spending and 14,000 job losses. Bankruptcies related to payday loans […]
Carnell Moore: ‘Monster within me’
5 May 2013 by
Before Carnell Marcus Moore opened fire Friday at Houston’s busiest airport, he wrote out a chilling suicide note. “The monster within me was getting stronger and while I could not save myself I could spare others,” the 29-year-old shooter was quoted as writing, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Beaumont man’s suicide note was […]
Not in my backyard
5 May 2013 by
“I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too.” A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service […]
White bashing?
5 May 2013 by
In a case being backed by a leading anti-racism group, a trial began in France on Friday in which the defendant stands accused of a racially-motivated attack on a white man in a Paris metro station. The trial of a 29-year-old accused of a racially motivated attack on a white man in a Paris metro […]