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Web Watch: He Had A Wreck? Creflo Dollar Show Support For Bishop Long, Never Mentions Victims

Smokey Fontine joins Roland Martin on Washington Watch via the HP SkyRoom to discuss Creflo Dollar's support of Bishop Eddie Long.

Expanding Global Market Place And Exports Can Lead To More Jobs In The United States

Roland Martin talks with U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Ron Kirk about how international trade can affect jobs in the United States.

Drastic Budget Cuts In Education And Job Training May Impact Growth

Roland Martin talks with Austan Goolsbe about how drastic budget cuts to education, job training, government science projects, research and development may impact growth.

Picture Effect Magic iPhone App Contains Effect Titled With The N-Word

This screen shot of the iPhone app shows the effect named for a racial slur. We edited the photo to block off part of the word. Source: Mike Waterhouse/ NewsNet5.com Cleveland – The creator of an iPhone app used to manipulate and add effects to photos is under fire for using a racial slur in the name of a special effect. The app, called "Picture Effect Magic," is available in a free and paid version in the Apple App Store. [...]

Overweight Man Dies Of Apparent Heart Attack While Raping Elderly Woman

Source: Douglas Stanglin / USA Today An overweight Texas man died of an apparent heart attack while raping a 77-year-old woman in South Texas, The Corpus Christi Caller Times reports. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, complained to the woman that he wasn't feeling well and stopped in the middle of the sexual assault to rest, the newspaper says. Shortly afterward, he rolled over and died, Sgt. Gary Wright of the Refugio County sheriff's office tells the Caller Times. Investigators believe Gutierrez [...]

Ricki Lake Sued For Fire That Destroyed Rental House

Source: Mike Fleeman / PEOPLE.com / CNN After a fire destroyed her $20,000-a-month Malibu rental house last fall, Ricki Lake felt "gratitude and blessings" nobody was hurt. Now she's feeling the heat from a lawsuit filed by her landlord alleging that the talk show host negligently set the fire by improperly refilling oil into a portable space heater. "[Lake] caused the oil to spill which was ignited by the hot heating coils which [Lake] had not allowed to cool," says [...]

U.S. Airlines Collected Almost $5.7 Billion In fees Last Year (VIDEO)

Source: Kim Peterson / MSN Money All those fees airlines slap on to check bags and change flights are adding up to big money. New figures show that U.S. airlines collected almost $5.7 billion in fees last year, a 10% increase from 2009. The biggest fee hog was Delta Air Lines (DAL), which led the industry in fees for both categories, Reuters reports. In fact, Delta collected more than 20% of the entire industry's total. American Airlines, owned by AMR Corp. (AMR), came in second. [...]

Daughter of former Rockets forward Horry Dies At 17 After Battle With Lifelong Illness

Source: Luis Perez / Chron.com Ashlyn Horry, daughter of former Rockets forward Robert Horry, died today at age 17 after a battle with a rare genetic condition. Ashlyn Horry suffered from a disorder called the 1p36 Deletion Syndrome, which caused a partial deletion of her number 1 chromosome. Robert Horry and his wife, Keva, established The Ashley Horry Foundation in 2008. One of the organization's primary objectives is to help support families of children battling similar illnesses. In 2001, Horry [...]

TJMS: U.S. Trade Rep. Ambassador Ron Kirk Talks About The Economy, Increasing Jobs Through Exports, Manufacturing And Eduction

Roland Martin talks with U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Ron Kirk about the economy, the global marketplace, creating jobs through manufacturing and fostering growth through education. WASHINGTON WATCH: Expanding Global Market Place And Exports Can Lead To More Jobs In The United States

Ohio Governor's Crass Attack on LeBron James

Sports and politics have always mixed. We've had former athletes hold elective office; mayors, members of Congress and governors are always making bets with one another when their teams play each other in big games; and it's great to see the respective national champions or winners in pro sports visit the White House for a congratulatory pat on the back from the president of the United States. But there are some moments that deserve to be called out, such as [...]