8-23-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) â Storm victims spill out of the waiting rooms, some clutching water-stained documents, others with the long stare of those stricken by disaster, each with a story of personal tragedy about the Louisiana flood’s devastation to their homes and their lives. The line for the makeshift Federal…… MORE
8-22-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama returned from vacation Sunday, ready for a busy fall season and more battles with Congress over Zika funding, the federal budget and $400 million the administration paid Iran this year for the never-completed sale of military equipment. Obama is also expected to campaign doggedly throughout…… MORE
8-19-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- A tearful Timothy Batts prayed that God forgives his sins. More than 500 mourners gathered on Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Whites Creek, Tennessee, to say their final farewells to 11-year-old Timea Lashay Batts, The Tennessean reports. All eyes were on her father – who claimed he accidentally killed her on…… MORE
8-17-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities went door to door and car to car to check for bodies Tuesday, and homeowners began the heartbreaking task of gathering up soaked family photos and mucking out houses dank with bayou mud, as the floodwaters started to recede across parts of southern Louisiana. Even…… MORE
8-15-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and rush the person to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following the police shooting of a black man. Some two…… MORE
8-12-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman who tried to join the Islamic State group sought to apologize at sentencing Thursday, tearful as a federal judge ordered her to spend 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge. Vicksburg native Jaelyn Young, who once sought to disguise a planned journey to…… MORE
8-10-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent De’Greaun Frazier was shot to death Tuesday afternoon in Jackson, marking the first line-of-duty death for the agency. Frazier, 35, joined the TBI in February after working as an officer with the Millington Police Department. TBI Director Mark Gywn said Frazier was shot while working with…… MORE
8-9-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- ATLANTA (AP) — The historic home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born is closed for repairs. Officials with the National Park Service released a statement Sunday saying a structural issue was found in the home’s floor and repairs must be made before public tours can resume. It’s unclear…… MORE
8-9-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The young son of a Kansas state lawmaker died on a water slide that is billed as the world’s largest, according to officials and the boy’s family. Authorities did not immediately identify the child who died Sunday at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, but state…… MORE
8-5-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in Virginia won a rare conviction of a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teen suspected of shoplifting. But the guilty verdict Thursday was for voluntary manslaughter, a lesser charge than the original first-degree murder count. And the jury recommended a 2…… MORE
SZA is feeling speechless after her album SOS managed to tie Michael Jackson’s classic Thriller. The two artists are officially tied at 79 total non-consecutive weeks spent in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200. According to Luminate, that’s the most for a Black artist. TMZ Hip-Hop caught up with SZA after her appearance on…
Angie Stone’s catalog received a hefty boost following her recent death. Billboard reports that Stone’s streams have increased by 1,300 percent to 8.4 million. Stone’s sales have risen by 10,700 percent. Her 1999 hit “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” got the biggest bump in listens. Stone died in a car accident in Alabama on…
Amber Rose has a big question about Diddy’s infamous “freak off” parties — where’s her invite? In a new Club Shay Shay interview, the taboo topic came up, when she told Shannon Sharpe, “I’ve been to every Puff party. I’ve been to every White Party since 2009. I’ve been to every party… If these freak…
The man accused of killing Tupac Shakur in 1996 is maintaining his innocence. Duane “Keffe D” Davis is currently in a Las Vegas jail awaiting trial for his alleged crime. He spoke to a local television station about his case. Davis said, “I did not do it. They don’t have nothing. And they know they…