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President Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a "jackass" on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter.
Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred the night before during the MTV Video Music Awards where West grabbed the microphone from teen country singer Taylor Swift during her award acceptance speech to announce his belief that Beyonce had a better music video.
The Langford administration has requested more information from the city's Police Department regarding its K-9 Unit, according to police Chief John J. Mooney.
Mooney said he received a memo Friday asking for more documents, including training records related to all K-9 officers.
Mayor Lorenzo Langford is conducting an investigation of the unit in response, he says, to growing allegations about the officers' conduct and use of their canine partners.
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A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and 7 others inside the family's mobile home in coastal Georgia.
A grand jury indicted Guy Heinze Jr. on Monday on eight counts of murder.
Heinze was charged with the slayings days after he reported them in a frantic 911 call in which he cried "my whole family's dead."
The victims included Heinze Jr.'s father, uncle and several cousins who lived in the mobile home just north of the port city of Brunswick.
Three NFL players announced Monday they will donate their brains and spinal cord tissue to a Boston University medical school program that studies sports brain injuries.
Even though dozens of former NFL players have agreed to donate their brains after death, center Matt Birk of the Baltimore Ravens, linebacker Lofa Tatupu of the Seattle Seahawks and receiver Sean Morey of the Arizona Cardinals are the first active players to do so.
For all of you who already have him tried and convicted; please let me remind you that in The United Sates of America a man is innocent until proved guilty.
ReplyDeleteWhile the media seems to have jumped to the same quick conclusion as the District Attorney I believe that Guy Heinze is innocent.
There are far too many questions that have not been answered not the least of which is the murders he is charged with would be physically impossible for one person. There were many people in that trailer of an age that they could defend themselves against one person or at least run away. There are windows as well as the door. And whoever committed this awful crime ( at least 2 maybe more) could not be the son, uncle, brother that Guy is. He states himself as does his brother that "he is no saint" (who among us are) that does not make him the mass murderer of his own family. I want the facts and proof of this monstrous act to come out and I believe that Guy Heinze will be found innocent - IF this case makes it to court at all.
Look for the real killers.
Greg Howard
Boston, MA