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I remember hearing about this case not too long ago. I have been trying to follow it, but as far as I know she is still out and about. The following is from Wikipedia: On December 30, 2006, at 10:30 a.m., Brandy struck another vehicle from behind on a Los Angeles freeway while driving her 2007 Land Rover at 65 mph, causing a chain reaction involving a total of four vehicles, ...More

(voanews.com) There is an old saying that "it takes a village to raise a child." In the midwestern American state of Illinois there is a special place that takes that message to heart. Hope Meadows is a community built around the special needs of children who, until they moved there, had no families of their own. Now they have much more. The winding street lined with mailboxes and houses with manicured ...More

(pittsburghlive.com) "My family has miners going back five generations, back to our slave ancestors," said Gina Jones, Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus instructor. "There is not too much out there about this part of African-American history. It's up to us to do that." Penn State Fayette and the state Historical and Museum Commission took a major step in that direction with a recent two-day conference, "Living Together, Working Together: African-American ...More

(news.enquirer.com) Vincent Terry is ready to take the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky office of Moody-Nolan Inc. - the nation's largest African-American-owned architectural firm - to new heights. Terry, 42, has been named the director of operations of the Columbus-based company's office in Blue Ash for this region. Terry will have his hands full in his new post at Moody-Nolan, which is the lead designer for the new $64 million Cincinnati School for Creative ...More

Surprising new study finds that autistic children can interpret mental state of others by looking at their eyes (awares.org) NOTTINGHAM, UK: Autistic children are able to interpret the mental state of others by looking at their eyes, contrary to previous research, a new University of Nottingham study has found. In findings that contradict previous studies, psychologists found that autistic children could "read" a stranger's mental state based on that person's eyes. Autistic ...More

Minority businesses leery of label Designation opens doors to work but can imply limitations (chicagotribune.com) When Valarie King-Bailey launched her information technology business in 2004, she played up her 24 years of industry experience as she went calling on customers. Less important, she said, was her company's status as a minority-owned business. "I'm selling IT solutions," said King-Bailey, owner and chief executive of OnShore Technology Group. "If companies don't need that, it doesn't ...More

(wacotrib.com) The city of Waco is continuing to withhold funds from the Cen-Tex African American Chamber of Commerce as the organization staggers under declining membership, financial reporting problems and power struggles. Formed in 2004 as an alternative to the scandal-ridden Heart of Texas Black Chamber of Commerce, the Cen-Tex group won a city economic development contract for $54,000 a year. But the city has not released funding since November 2005 because the ...More