7-20-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- CLEVELAND (AP) — Cementing an extraordinary political takeover, Republicans nominated Donald Trump Tuesday night as their presidential standard-bearer, hitching their hopes of keeping Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House on an unorthodox candidate who has sown divisions within the party and across the nation. While it was Trump’s night, Clinton…… MORE
7-19-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- CLEVELAND (AP) — The Trump campaign on Tuesday dismissed criticism that Melania Trump directly lifted two passages nearly word-for-word from the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention, calling the complaints “just absurd.” “There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech,” Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign…… MORE
7-18-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- CLEVELAND (AP) — The fatal shooting of three police officers in Louisiana added new concerns Sunday about security at the Republican National Convention as huge crowds were expected to protest and the city police chief prepared officers to deal with the open carrying of weapons as allowed by state law. Republican Ohio…… MORE
7-15-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- NICE, France (AP) — A truck loaded with weapons and hand grenades drove onto a sidewalk for more than a mile, plowing through Bastille Day revelers who’d gathered to watch fireworks in the French resort city of Nice late Thursday. At least 80 people were killed before police killed the driver,…… MORE
7-14-16-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- WASHINGTON (AP) — America is “not even close” to where it needs to be in terms of resolving issues between police and the communities they serve, President Barack Obama said after concluding a more than three-hour meeting Wednesday with community activists, politicians and law enforcement officials. Obama expressed optimism, however, and said…… MORE
7-13-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- DALLAS (AP) — At a memorial for slain police officers, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that a week of deeply troubling violence has appeared to expose “the deepest fault lines of our democracy.” But he insisted the nation is not as divided as it seems and called on Americans to search for…… MORE
7-12-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. People scrambled for cover inside the Berrien County Courthouse…… MORE
7-11-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY= DALLAS (AP) — The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the police chief said Sunday. The chief and the county’s most senior elected official also said Micah…… MORE
7-1-2016-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Thursday that transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. Saying it’s the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out a yearlong implementation plan declaring that…… MORE
6-30-2015-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) — Joint Base Andrews tweeted Thursday that the base was on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter and that first responders are now on scene to secure the base. The base has instructed all personnel at the base in Washington’s Maryland suburbs to continue…… MORE
Singer Coco Jones and NBA star Donovan Mitchell are engaged. Jones posted an Instagram photo of herself and Mitchell, where she showed off her ring. The couple had been dating for about a year, but both of them kept things quiet. Jones revealed that she and Mitchell were dating on Club Shay Shay in March.
Akon’s futuristic city in Senegal is not happening. The country has taken back the land for the multi-billion-dollar project, which was going to be called Akon City.Senegal will use the land for a resort built with private funding.Last year, Akon was given two weeks to start construction. After there was no movement, and Akon missed…
Craig Robinson is leaving comedy.In a recent post on Instagram, The Office actor shared that he’s giving up comedy to focus on “something bigger.”“Life update: I’m officially quitting comedy to focus on my true calling. Stay tuned. I’m working on something huge,” he wrote in the video caption.He teased what his next venture might be in a follow-up…
Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour brought in some serious cash. Billboard reports that Grand National is the highest-grossing co-headlining tour ever. The outing has grossed $254.6 million with 1.1 million tickets sold from 23 shows. By comparison, JAY-Z and Beyoncé‘s On the Run II Tour is the only other joint tour to hit…