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• Firefighters Let House Burn Over $75 Unpaid Fire Fee October 5, 2010
  By: Nsenga BurtonFresh from our "What were they thinking?" file, firefighters in rural Tennessee allowed a house to burn down over an unpaid $75 fee. Gene Cranick and his family lost all of their possessions, along with three dogs and a cat, in a Sept. 29 fire. The fire started when the Cranicks' grandson was burning trash near the family home […]
• The Scandal Is About More Than Bishop Eddie Long October 5, 2010
  By: Josef SorettRoughly 20 years ago, Cornel West -- in his best-selling book Race Matters -- argued that "it is virtually impossible to talk candidly about race without talking about sex." So it remains today: When we chatter about sex, race is always already on the table. At the center of the Bishop Eddie Long story is a civil suit against a prea […]
• Oscar Grant Killer Wants New Trial October 5, 2010
  By: Nsenga BurtonA lawyer for Johannes Mehserle, the ex-BART cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, while he lay face-down on a train platform, has asked for a retrial. Mehserle’s defense attorney, Michael Rains, argued that the Alameda County district attorney's office misled jurors when prosecutor David Stein told jurors that there […]