More than 600,000 people were stopped and questioned by police last year - the highest number since the NYPD began releasing the data in 2002.
Police stopped 601,055 people in 2010, an increase of about 4.3% from the 575,304 stopped the year before. Of those stopped, about 14% were given summonses or arrested. The remaining 86% were questioned, but not charged or… Continue
Donald Trump probably won’t be asking Rihanna to perform at any more of his charity events. The pop star was reportedly paid 500-thousand-dollars to take the stage last Saturday at a fundraiser for South Florida’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, but canceled at the last minute claiming she was sick. The next day, however, Rihanna performed at the NBA All-Star… Continue
Former "Jersey Shore" cast member Angelina Pivarnick's red-carpet proposal last week may have been more show than substance.
Only hours after David Kovacs popped the question on bended knee, he reportedly lashed out at Pivarnick via text message calling her "a bad evil person!" according to RadarOnline.com.
The harsh words don't fit the bill for a couple… Continue
One man's attempt to watch "Black Swan" in peace and quiet ended tragically this weekend when he was killed for complaining about a fellow moviegoer's noise.
The 43-year-old man was attacked in a movie theater in Latvia on Saturday when he asked a particularly loud popcorn-munching member of the audience to keep it down.
They cannot tell a lie - they often wonder why they were named George Washington.
As the country marked the 279th birthday yesterday of the first President, black New Yorkers who share his name marveled at how common it is among African-Americans.
"I know a lot of Washingtons," said George Washington, 53, a retired welder from the Bronx. "I don't know no… Continue
She came from Ireland half a life ago, a blue-eyed 17-year-old determined to make a splash in New York's art scene with her colorful portraits and vivid landscapes.
On Sunday morning - years after her life started to go bad in a haze of alcohol and a lousy marriage - Grace Farrell, 35, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of St. Brigid's Church on Avenue B in the… Continue
So say researchers who note that oral cancer stemming from the human papilloma virus is more common in the U.S. than oral cancer caused by abusing tobacco.
Researchers found a 225% increase in oral cancer cases in the U.S. from 1974 to 2007, mainly among white men, said Maura Gillison, a cancer researcher at Ohio… Continue
The Denver Nuggets have finally completed their long-awaited trade to send Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks, a league source told Yahoo! Sports.
The Knicks are expected to send Danilo Gallinari, Raymond Felton, Wilson Chandler, the Knicks’ 2014 first-round pick, two second-round picks and $3 million. The Knicks will also trade Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry’s… Continue
Kanye West released his All Of The Lights music video at the end of last week. Along with potential legal news about this video from the weekend, I’m posting this now rather than overlooking it altogether. It’s being alleged by some, who noticed the similarities, that sections of the above video rip-off the opening sequence of the 2010 film Enter the Void,… Continue
Halle Berry black side of the family is trying to blast her for cutting them off. Her estranged half-sister has now come forward to say the Oscar winner has cut herself off from her father’s side of the family.
Renee Berry, 51, is the 44-year-old daughter of Halle’s late African-American father Jerome Berry and Edwina Taylor – who broke up with him shortly before he… Continue
A Florida man is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly sexually assaulting his roommate's tiny Chihuahua.
Tomas Bautista was arrested Thursday after a night of excessive drinking led to his sick canine encounter, according to the Broward County sheriff's department in Oakland Park.
Bautista’s roommate, Clemente Velasquez, came home to find the… Continue
A 14-year-old Aboriginal boy in Australia has been missing and presumed dead after being attacked by a crocodile while swimming in a creek Sunday, police said..
The unnamed victim was playing with his brothers on Milingimbi Island, a remote part of the Northern Territory of Australia, when the crocodile bit him. Police told The Australian that he was then most likely… Continue
Known for his raw lyrics, Chic Raw (pronounced Cheek) has made a name for himself in the underground music world. April 16th, 1984 Chic Raw was born Darren Martin. Though Chic was born and raised in Philadelphia, he moved around often. In Chic’s earlier childhood life was ruff or should I say abnormal. With their mother falling victim to the harsh streets of… Continue
Hip hop mogul and advertising exec Steve Stoute has slammed the Grammy awards with a full-page ad in Sunday's New York Times in which he states the ceremony is a "series of hypocrisies and contradictions."
The founder of the Translation advertising company, who is famous for being Nas' on-off manager since 1995, wrote in a column for The Huffington Post that he used… Continue
Gunman targeting taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco killed nine cabbies and three passengers over the weekend, igniting fears just hours before a popular professional tennis tournament was set to begin.
Police in the Guerrero, the western state on Mexico's Pacific coast where Acapulco is located, said four thugs were arrested in connection with the attacks,… Continue
A proud Egyptian papa has named his first born daughter after the social media giant to honor the role it played in the country's revolution, reports TechCrunch.
The word "Facebook" displayed throughout Cairo on graffiti and in protest signs, was seen as a beacon of free-flowing information during the chaos that… Continue
A ghetto fight in lancaster PA! YEAH! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT! 2 NI**AS KNUCKLE UP! JUST SKIN & BONES! I DIDN'T THEY KEEP IT REAL LIKE THAT OUT THERE! SHOUT OUT TO THEM!… Continue
This fight all started when the white girls walked in and called those black girls "ghetto hoodrats"! LMFAO! LOOK AT CAPTAIN-SAVE-A-HOE TAKE KICKS & PUNCHES FOR THOSE WHITE GIRLS!…