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Report: Disco Legend Donna Summer Dead At 63

Source: Gael Fashingbauer Cooper / MSNBC Disco legend Donna Summer died Thursday at age 63 after a battle with cancer, TMZ is reporting. The Grammy-winning singer had numerous hits in both the 1970s and 1980s, including “Last Dance,” “She Works Hard for the Money” and “Bad Girls.” To read this article in its entirety visit [...]

Tonya Thomas Shooting: 911 Call Details Port St. John Mom’s Alleged Murder-Suicide (AUDIO)

Source: Steven Hoffer / The Huffington Post Authorities in Florida released audio on Wednesday of a 911 call placed during an alleged murder-suicide by a mother shooting her four children. Tonya Thomas, 33, called three of her children — who sought help from neighbors — back into the house before firing the fatal gunshots around [...]

Fans Gather To Remember Chuck Brown (VIDEO)

Fans celebrate the life of the “Godfather of Go-Go” in front of the Howard Theatre in Washington. WATCH:

Facebook To Set Final IPO Price Thursday

Source: Julianne Pepitone / CNN Money NEW YORK – Facebook’s long road to an initial public offering is coming to an end. Late Thursday, it will fill in one last piece of the puzzle: Its final IPO price. That’s the price at which Facebook’s underwriters (including lead banker Morgan Stanley) will sell shares to their clients, [...]

Verizon To End Unlimited Data For Upgraders

Source:  David Goldman / CNN Money NEW YORK  - Verizon Wireless is planning this summer to begin forcing smartphone customers with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade, the company’s chief financial officer told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday. At the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference in Boston, Verizon CFO Fran [...]

Detroit Police: Marvin Winans’ Gas Station Attack Started With Music Talk

Source: Bill Laitner / Detroit Free Press Detroit police said they don’t believe a group of young attackers knew they had targeted a prominent Detroit pastor and gospel recording artist when they beat and carjacked him Wednesday afternoon. Marvin Winans said he was pumping gas at a Citgo station on Davison and Linwood when a [...]

Pastor Marvin Winans Carjacked And Robbed In Detroit

Source: WXYZ.com DETROIT – Pastor Marvin Winans was robbed and carjacked at a Detroit gas station Wednesday afternoon. Winans was at the Citgo Gas Station at Linwood and the Davison when he was robbed. The carjackers robbed him and took his deep purple  Infiniti QX56 SUV. The license plate number on the vehicle is 0DRT73. Detroit [...]

Cop Tasers Mom At Mississippi Middle School … Twice

Source: M. Alex Johnson / MSNBC A police officer working as a school resource officer in northern Mississippi twice stunned the mother of a middle school pupil with a Taser during a heated argument at the school Wednesday morning. The woman — identified as Michele Lee Eaton, 39, of Saltillo, about 15 miles north of Tupelo [...]

Chuck Brown Dies: The ‘Godfather Of Go-Go’ Was 75

Source: Chris Richards / The Washington Post Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at the Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore. He was 75. The death, from complications from sepsis, [...]

Mitt Romney Campaign Tries To Physically Prevent Reporters From Asking Questions

Source:  Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post Reporters covering Mitt Romney’s campaign sent out a volley of tweets on Wednesday, complaining that they had been prevented from asking the presumptive Republican nominee questions at an event in Florida. Trouble between the campaign and the press apparently started at the beginning of the day. Sara Murray, a Wall [...]