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Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor
Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.
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Study: 58 percent of Black children can’t swim
NEW YORK (AP)—Nearly 60 percent of African-American children can’t swim, almost twice the figure for white children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more Blacks into the sport.
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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public
HAVANA (AP)—Cubans are getting wired. The island’s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time May 2, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised restriction on daily life fell away under new President Raul Castro.
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Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies anymore
WASHINGTON (AP)—They were indelible images of the cocaine world of the 1970s and ’80s: Rich yuppies and white suburbanites partying down with a couple of lines of “blow.” Stockbroker Charlie Sheen snorting up in the limo in “Wall Street.” Woody Allen’s sneeze in “Annie Hall.”
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Parker ‘surprised’ at sharing spot as Steelers open minicamp
PITTSBURGH (AP)—The Pittsburgh Steelers can’t afford to have the wheels come off Willie Parker again.
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New pastor to head Obama’s Chicago church
(AP)—When Rev. Otis Moss III takes to the pulpit before a congregation that includes Barack Obama, he’s as likely to preach about Tupac Shakur or one of his favorite authors as he is the Apostle Paul.
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Researchers create health, happiness index
WASHINGTON (AP)—Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a massive survey that attempts to measure the nation’s general welfare, much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average portrays the health of the stock market.
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Obama picks up superdelegates; undecideds moving his way
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YouTube surgery video investigated
MANILA, Philippines (AP)—A video posted on YouTube showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials said recently.
