June 2012 Blog Posts (196)

Horrific photos show the fate of hundreds of dogs in China that are brought to restaurants to be killed and eaten.

The graphic images show caged live dogs awaiting slaughter and canine carcasses piled on top of each other in a dog meat market in Yulin City, Guangxi Province, located in southern China.

China has a long tradition of eating…

Interior of Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights, where redevelopment is planned

A roller rink could be built in a vacant Crown Heights armory — recreating a beloved neighborhood institution that shut down five years ago.

The Daily News got an exclusive first look at a new report about redeveloping the Bedford-Union Armory — and a roller rink like Empire…

Jose Webster, killed in September, in gang-related shooting

There are nearly 60 street crews--subsets of gangs--in the Bronx, and they include members as young as eight years old.

NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kevin O'Connor, who heads up the department's new Juvenile Justice Division, urged parents in the borough to seek clues about their children's crew…

Rap legend Daz Dillinger is taking the phrase "making it rain" out of the strip club ... and into the streets -- showering HOMELESS PEOPLE with airborne singles last week ... instead of scantily-clad women ... and TMZ has footage of the money mayhem.

The video was shot for a charity called MakeItRain.TV -- founded by radio host Tattoo from…

Terrell Owens has great hands ... just ask Terrell Owens ... who's now at the center of a XXX photo situation involving some VERY graphic images featuring himself ... with himself.

TMZ has learned ... someone is shopping several pictures to various media outlets ... but no, you won't be seeing them here.

The woman shopping the pics claims the two met on…

7:51 AM PT -- A rep for Curtis Jackson released a statement ... confirming 50 was in an accident early Tuesday morning.

The rep adds, "He was taken to New York Hospital Queens where he was treated for minor neck and back injuries. He was released this morning and is doing fine."

50 Cent was hospitalized with possible injuries to his neck and back in a…

Young Money/Cash Money Records rapper Lil Chuckee sat down with AllHipHop.com to discuss his latest mixtape “Hood Guys,” as well as his upcoming debut album with Lil Wayne’s record label.

Last week, the 16-year-old rapper dropped his “Hood…

After Diddy's son faced criticism for a full-ride scholarship, Cordell Broadus has been offered a scholarship by the same university.

Snoop Dogg’s son Cordell Broadus has been offered his first scholarship by UCLA to play football at the school.

Broadus will enter his sophomore year at Diamond Bar High School this fall. He has played wide receiver and defensive…

Damn! Game still owes Dr Dre, 50 and interscope one more album. Fif gets 25% from all Game's albums? Talks Chief Keef, Interscope, Producers On Murder By Numbers & Disses Diddy! Say's Diddy's "Last Train To Paris" was garbage!…

Bootleg Kev sat down with Ludacris for an interview during Memorial Day Weekend in Vegas. The two speak on topics including: The disappointment of his last album "Battle Of The Sexes", his new album "Ludaversal" which is dropping September 11th, working with Justin Bieber, 2 Chainz signing to Def Jam & if he ever thought 2 Chainz had the potential…

For nearly two decades, drug lord James Rosemond, a/k/a "Jimmy Henchman," denied accusations of his involvement in the near-fatal 1994 ambush of rap star Tupac Shakur at New York's Quad Recording Studios that marked a pivotal moment in American pop history.

The attack on Tupac triggered a bicoastal rampage that played out in songs and videos generating billions of…

A 30-year-old mother in Moscow tossed her two young children off a 15th-floor balcony Sunday because she was reportedly "fed up" with the two boys, according to Russian media.

Galina Ryabkova, who is seen on surrveilance video shortly after the incident, appeared emotionless after going to look at the remains of her sons, ages 4 and 7, according to RT news.

The…

In a case of atrocious timing, Knicks superstar Amar’e Stoudemire chose Gay Pride weekend to hurl a homophobic slur at a fan on Twitter.

The NBA All-Star sent the crude remark Saturday in a direct message response to Brian Ferrelli’s tweet that he’d “better come back a lot stronger and quicker to make up for this past season.”

Ferrelli — known on Twitter as…

A Memphis jury has found 17-year-old James Prindle guilty of raping a 23-month-old girl. The jury took all day on Friday to convict Prindle on all counts.

Prosecutors claimed Prindle committed the disturbing act against the toddler while babysitting at Cordova Creek Apartments in August of 2010. Though just 15 at the time, he was later charged and indicted as an…

Rick Ross - So Sophisticated (Explicit) ft. Meek Mill…

Bubba Sparxxx once rapped, "I ain't choose to rhyme, rhymin' chose me" -- now you can add "paying his taxes" to the list of things Bubba has chosen not to do.

According to documents filed in Georgia, the former Timbaland protege -- whose biggest song, "Ugly," came out in 2001 -- owes $29,266.88 in back taxes from the year 2006. It was originally only about $15k ...…

"Basketball Wives" star Jennifer Williams has lost about 4,000 lbs ... because her super swanky Bentley just took a one-way trip to the repo yard.

Williams was sued by the Toyota Motor Credit Corporation after they claimed she stopped making payments on the sweet ride.

Sources tell TMZ, the Bentley was repossessed earlier this month with no-return order on the…

The Dream has been slapped with a major lawsuit by the victim of a brutal car crash in Georgia and what really makes it a nightmare for the R&B star ... he wasn't driving at the time ... or even there!

Elaine Nowells filed a suit in Georgia, claiming one of Dream's record label employees, Patrick Thrall, T-boned her car while running a red light at a four-way…

DMX just caught a $630,000, a booking agency has dismissed its enormous lawsuit against the rapper over a botched 2011 comeback tour.

An agency called Heavy Rotation sued DMX in March claiming it struck an exclusive year-long deal with DMX in 2011 to book a string of comeback concerts -- but the rapper was a pain in the ass to deal with ... and torpedoed the entire…

The husband of the other driver in last night's Soulja Boy car crash tells TMZ -- there's no two ways about it ... the accident was all Soulja's fault.

TMZ spoke to the other driver's husband moments after last night's crash, and he tells us, he and his wife -- who's pregnant right now -- were waiting at a red light in the turning lane, when the rapper's red Bentley…