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Syracuse Puts Associate Basketball Coach On Leave Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

Source: CNN Syracuse University placed associate men's basketball coach Bernie Fine on administrative leave Thursday over an inappropriate contact allegation made by a man in 2005. Police said they had reopened an investigation into allegations of inappropriate touching, which allegedly occurred years before the allegation was made. ESPN reported that two men accused the coach [...]

ROY S. JOHNSON: Friday Focus – Leave Your Comfort Zone Behind!

  By Roy S. Johnson Founder of Fit! Live! Win! http://www.fitlivewin.wordpress.com  My spin teacher overslept this morning. But she was still in my head. One of the phrases she screams repeatedly during class is "Get out of your comfort zone!" And while she wasn't there today, her challenge followed me around the gym. Get out [...]

Sources: Secret Service To Protect Herman Cain

Source: CNN Washington - Presidential candidate Herman Cain will receive protection from the United States Secret Service, a source in federal law enforcement and two other sources told CNN. Cain will be the first candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 election cycle to be placed under the protection of this [...]

Alleged W.H. Shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez Charged With Attempt To Assassinate Obama

Source: The Washington Post PITTSBURGH — An Idaho man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day [...]

Herman Cain Cancels Interview After Demanding No Video Recordings

Source: The Huffington Post NEW YORK – If Herman Cain stumbles on a foreign policy question during Thursday's scheduled meeting with New Hampshire's influential Union Leadernewspaper — as he did earlier this week when asked about President Obama's handling of Libya – don't expect to see the clip on an endless cable news loop. That's because Cain's campaign [...]

TJMS: HS Basketball Coach Sued By Student For Calling Him 'Future Welfare Recipient'

Roland Martin talks with Dr. Jeff Gardere about a student who filed a racial harassment suit against a high school basketball coach after he called the the student a "future welfare recipient.

Russell Simmons On OWS: 'Every Revolution Takes Time' (VIDEO)

Hip-hop mogul and activist Russell Simmons talks to NBC's Mara Schiavocampo from the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. He says the message of the movement is simple: "Wall Street controls the future, and we want the people to control the future. We want a democracy."

Perry Says President Obama 'Grew Up In A Privileged Way'

Source: Carrie Dann / MSNBC Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday night said President Barack Obama "grew up in a privileged way" and that America's foreign policy reputation has suffered because of the president's "mentality that he's the smartest guy in the room." "It reveals to me that he grew up in a privileged way," Perry [...]

Jonathan Gruber, Economist Who Helped Shape Obamacare, Romneycare: It's The 'Same F—ing Bill'

Source: New York Daily News An exasperated former Mitt Romney adviser is simply fed up that his old boss keeps denying that Romneycare and Obamacare are twins. "Basically, they're the same f—ing bill," Jonathan Gruber, a healthcare economist and MIT professor who helped shape Romney's healthcare plan, told Capital New York this week. Romney's Republican [...]

Franco Harris Job 'On Hold' For Paterno Comments

Source: USA Today Speaking out about his former coach, Penn State's Joe Paterno, has caused Franco Harris to lose a job, at least temporarily. Harris was hired last month by the Meadows Race Track and Casino along with former Pittsburgh Steelers teammate Rocky Bleier to "assist the entertainment facility with various outreach activities, charitable events [...]