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NBA Suspends Miami Heat’s Chris Andersen For Game 6

Source: Brian Windhorst / ESPN INDIANAPOLIS — The NBA suspended Miami Heat center Chris Andersen for Saturday’s Game 6 against the Indiana Pacers after an altercation with Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough in Game 5 on Thursday night. Without apparently being provoked, Andersen body-checked Hansbrough to the floor after Heat teammate Norris Cole missed a layup in transition during the second quarter of the Heat’s eventual [...]

UCLA Awarded $10M Grant To Study Autism In African-Americans

Source: Dr. Bruce Hensel / NBC Southern California / theGrio NBC Southern California – The National Institutes of Health awarded UCLA a grant to study the genetic causes of autism in African American children. Areva Martin of the Special Needs Network says “there’s a void” of qualified health care officials to make the diagnosis in communities [...]

84-Year-Old NM Woman Indicted For Drug Trafficking

Source: AP/  theGrio ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An 84-year-old Albuquerque woman who uses an oxygen tank has been indicted for drug trafficking. KRQE-TV reports that Lillie Smith was recently indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury for trafficking, conspiracy to commit trafficking, tampering with evidence and possession. Court documents show the charges stem from a warrant served at [...]

Obama To Sign Bill Awarding 1963 Birmingham Bombing Victims Congressional Medal Of Honor

Source: Kunbi Tinuoye /  theGrio President Barack Obama is set to sign a bill Friday that awards the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. The children were murdered when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963. The deadly blast [...]

Morgan Freeman: I Wasn’t Sleeping, Just Testing ‘Google Eyelids’

Source: Randee Dawn / Today Show / NBC News Listen to the voice of God: Morgan Freeman was not actually sleeping during an early-morning interview on Wednesday. The 75-year-old actor was sitting next to Michael Caine during a chat with Seattle’s FOX affiliate Q13, when he appeared to doze off as Caine spoke. The two [...]

It’s Memorial Day Weekend And Time For Roland’s Cookout Rules

It’s tradition to barbecue or cookout during Memorial Day weekend, in honor of those festivities, Roland Martin compiled a list of rules you need to know for the perfect, stress-free, drama-less cookout.

President Obama Speaks To Naval Graduates About Sexual Assault Issue

Source: The New York Times ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Obama used a commencement speech before Naval Academy graduates on Friday to urge them to follow an “inner compass” and to warn that rising numbers of sexual assaults in the military threatened to erode America’s faith in the armed forces. The president praised the military as [...]

Rams Have A Rookie Lineman Who Weighs In At A Whopping 403 Pounds

Source: Simon Samano / USA Today Try this on for size: The St. Louis Rams this week signed undrafted free agent Terrell Brown, and when they did they were under the impression they added a 6-foot-10, 388-pound behemoth of a man. But on Thursday they found out they actually got more than they bargained for. [...]

Bridge Collapse Caused By Oversized Truck Hitting Span

Source: William M. Welch and Doug Stanglin / USA Today The collapse of the Interstate-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington State was triggered by a truck with a excessively tall load hitting a steel girder, sending two vehicles into the icy water 50-feet below, Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste said Friday. Three [...]

The Real Walter White? Boston Middle School Math Tutor, Charged With Trafficking Methamphetamine

Source: CBS News BOSTON – A math tutor at a Boston middle school was arrested just after noon on Tuesday after authorities say he had a package of methamphetamine delivered to the campus, according to CBS Boston. The station reported that upon 57-year-old Stephen W. Doran’s arrest at Match Charter Middle School, authorities said they [...]