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LA CROSSE, Wis. -- A man told police he kept his mother's corpse in a basement freezer for more than four years while he collected her Social Security checks, authorities said Monday. A body was found encased in ice, in a sitting position. Philip Schuth, 52, told police his elderly mother, Edith, died of natural causes in August 2000, but that he didn't tell anyone because he was afraid police would ...More

About a week or so ago, I posted a response from Jermaine O'Neal' s take on the controversial issue of age restrictions in the NBA. This week, former NBA star Spud Webb gives his take: O'Neal needs to remember that life wasn't always a box of chocolates for the former South Carolina Mr. Basketball. In fact, O'Neal should be Exhibit A for Commissioner David Stern's proposal to allow any NBA player to ...More

Teron, a seventh-grader at Community School 4, was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Monday complaining of a severe headache and toothache. The family said doctors conducted a CAT-scan and told relatives that an infection had spread to his brain. After Teron went into convulsions and became unconscious, he was hooked up to a respirator and transferred to Montefiore for surgery on Tuesday, his family said. On Wednesday, doctors told relatives ...More

UPDATE II: See below (near the end of this piece) ============ I had a couple of additional postings that I wanted to add today, but I think that we should pause on this issue that recently took place at Mifflin High School in Columbus, OH. Click below to read the post, follow the link to catch up on the story itself, and most importantly read and add your own comments on ...More

Very good article!!! I'll only give you excerpts. ===== I am a 26-year-old African American male. I have been an active gang member since I was merely 8 years old and am the father of an 11-year-old son on the verge of closely following in my footsteps. I write this in hopes of opening his eyes and the eyes of others to the recently reported racial tensions between African Americans and Hispanics that lead ...More

A United Press International (UPI) reporter went out to search for autistic children in Lancaster County, the heart of Amish country in Pennsylvania. Based on national statistics there should have been as many as 200 children with autism in the community. Instead, he only found three. One was a young girl who had been brought over from China, adopted by one family only to be given up after becoming overwhelmed by ...More

Ingredients 4 cups of sweet potatoes 1 tablespoon lime juice 3/4 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup coconut milk 1/4 cup of rum grated rind of lime 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon powdered cinnamon 1 tablespoon raisins To mashed potatoes, add sugar gradually and whole eggs, one at at time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in butter with a fork. Add milk. Blend well. mix in grated rind of oime juice. Add rum. Mix well. Add ...More

Eating too much Spam, hot dogs, sausages, red meat and pork can increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to University of Hawai'i researchers associated with the Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i. However, more study is needed to determine what it is about meat — from processing methods to cooking — that is the cause, researcher Ute Nothlings said, adding it's more likely that preparation techniques are the culprit rather ...More

Accounts of the March 9 attack at Mifflin High School in Columbus sound like something out of Abu Ghraib. A group of boys took the girl behind a curtain on the auditorium stage, where one punched her in the face and threatened to have his friends beat her further if she cried out. Then at least two boys forced her to perform oral sex on them while others watched. More than ...More

Site name: Tiffany & Co. Web address: http://proactiff.typepad.com About: Let's see. So many opportunities to talk write about myself, I never know where to begin...and end. Almost 32-years-old, I am a petite five-foot-two-and-a-half-inches, lover of high heels and an occasional pair of comfy flip-flops. I'm not a fan of the great outdoors or sports, except of course, on my way into shopping malls and centers, then I say, "Let the games begin!" I ...More

In an effort to further expand the views expressed on this website, I have asked black militant leader Tupac Fo' Sho' to report on the efforts of white people to take away the freedoms of black Americans. ====== Once again, racism has shown its ugly face---white face--to the masses this week.This week the Catholic church selected a white pope over a black one. If anyone out there was holding there ...More

Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg cannot understand why she has become the target of such animosity. "This was somewhat of a shock to me that someone would turn this into a racial or religious issue," she says. ...But she was dragged into a political brawl in Newark this week, and suddenly, her religion and race were on center stage. It began when Weinberg questioned the award of a $10,000 grant to an organization run by ...More

The murder rate for black juveniles has declined far more sharply than for Latino youths over the past decade -- possibly highlighting racial differences in the behavior of street gang members, experts said Thursday. The Chicago Police Department studied the killings of juveniles between 1991 and 2004, finding the murder rate steadily fell for African Americans under age 20. For black youths between ages 17 and 19, for instance, the rate was ...More