cbc sports – Floyd Mayweather Jr. was arrested by police in his hometown of Las Vegas on Friday and released on bail a few hours later.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal first reported the arrest, with police …

NEW ORLEANS – The Justice Department says it will not seek the death penalty against four current or former New Orleans police officers charged in deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
Prosecutors disclosed …

Rapper Foxy Brown, demure and without her customary posse, pleaded not guilty Friday to violating an order of protection against her neighbor – including an alleged mooning incident.
Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, faces …

Detroit — A federal appeals court today denied former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers‘ request to stay out of prison pending her appeal.
Conyers is scheduled to turn herself in to the Federal Bureau of Prisons by …

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ― When a student at New Jersey City University alerted school officials that a reimbursement check she’d been given for student government activities had bounced, they decided to take a closer …

NEW YORK (AP) – Police have arrested a Brooklyn landlord in the shooting death of a 55-year-old tenant.
The NYPD says Jacqueline Wesley-Rosa was arrested Wednesday on murder and criminal possession of a weapon charges.
Police say …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The fiance of Los Angeles Lakers player Matt Barnes says a domestic violence accusation against him is false, and he has never physically abused her or her family.
Gloria Govan made the comments …

LAS VEGAS — Police sought boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr for questioning Thursday about a domestic battery complaint lodged by an ex-girlfriend who recanted a similar claim in 2005, police and his lawyer said.
“She alleges he …

Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater‘s take-this-job-and-shove-it tale of telling off a rude passenger over the plane’s microphone then activating an emergency chute and sliding down it with a beer in each hand captured the public …

NEW YORK (AP) — Usher is getting ready to gas up the tour bus.
The long-awaited tour supports Usher’s platinum Raymond v. Raymond album.
Though it won’t feature Chris Brown as recently rumored, Usher is promising a …