Mar 21, 2014 Anita Baker was horrified to find out there was a warrant for her arrest last week. Apparently, in July of 2013, a contractor filed a $15,000 lawsuit against her and slapped a notice on her door. She was on tour and never got it. Since s ...
Posted Thursday, April 3rd 2014 at 2:26PM
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There is nothing more frightening for a parent than to hear that their child has a life-threatening illness. At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, there is hope for these parents and their kids. The hospital has been a place ...
Posted Thursday, April 3rd 2014 at 2:22PM
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KILLEEN, Tex. — A soldier who was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 16 before killing himself, the authorities said. The shooting set off a huge police response ...
Posted Thursday, April 3rd 2014 at 10:22AM
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It is a knock to the door that a parent never wants to receive. Standing in the door is a representative, a social worker, from your state's social services agency and perhaps even one or two uniformed police officers.
Such a visit may come as a s ...
Posted Thursday, April 3rd 2014 at 10:15AM
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Beverly Brignoni traveled to the Dominican Republic to get a tummy tuck and liposuction. Her actions were not out of the ordinary. Many young people seeking a less expensive way to enhance her their physical appearance go under the knife overseas. Ho ...
Posted Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 at 5:06PM
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A lot of women have misconceptions about cardiovascular health. Do you? Find out what’s fact or fiction when it comes to heart disease in women... Do you believe heart disease is something only guys need to worry about? Think again. Heart disease i ...
Posted Sunday, March 30th 2014 at 9:58PM
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Kenya Moore pissed off the wrong chick this time! According to reports, Porsha Williams lost her temper and attacked the former beauty queen while filming “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion special on Thurs. “There was a major physical alterca ...
Posted Sunday, March 30th 2014 at 9:51PM
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Shanesha Taylor, a 35-year-old Arizona mother of two was arrested on two felony charges of child abuse after she left her young children in a car for two hours, with the windows slightly open so that she could go to a job interview. When Taylor left ...
Posted Sunday, March 30th 2014 at 9:22PM
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Feb 2014 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Healthcare Employment Statistics: For the third consecutive month overall healthcare employment had little change, increasing by 10,000 in February. Hospital employment declined by 1,000 in February, and ha ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 1:31PM
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WASHINGTON -- More than 6 million people have signed up for private health plans under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration said Thursday.
But health insurers are still waiting to see if the check is in the mail.
The Department of ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 1:16PM
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An arrest warrant has been issued for “Scandal” star Columbus Short for felony aggravated battery stemming from his bar fight earlier this month, reports TMZ. The actor allegedly sucker-punched a man after he made a crack about Short’s wife. The vic ...
Posted Friday, March 28th 2014 at 6:36AM
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Charlotte, NC — A man was arrested and charged with assault after he allegedly tried to suck a woman’s toes in a local Walmart in Charlotte area North Carolina. The man, whose name is Michael A. Brown reportedly approached a woman in the shoe departm ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:54PM
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Sharp differences over abortion and birth control surfaced as President Barack Obama held his first meeting Thursday with Pope Francis, even as the president sought to emphasize common ground issues like economic inequality during a much-anticipated ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:48PM
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Laz Alonso is ready and willing to reprise his starring role in another Jumping the Broom movie, but he’s still waiting to find out if the rumors of a sequel are true. “Sony has been very, very tight-lipped about this,” he told Sister 2 Sister. “The ...
Posted Thursday, March 27th 2014 at 2:37PM
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What is health? A check-up with your doctor often focuses on making sure we are not sick – checking our blood pressures, mammograms, pap smears and colonoscopies. These are all excellent things we must keep on top of, but do not always necessarily fo ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 5:37PM
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Hoping to give Democrats' minimum wage legislation a boost in Congress, the White House released a report on Wednesday making the case that raising the wage floor would benefit women in particular and help close the gender wage gap. The report, prod ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 5:34PM
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Dedicated mother and church member, Mary Virginia Jones (she’s affectionately called, “Mother Mary”) was sentenced to life in prison in 1982, without the possibility of parole for murder, kidnapping and robbery involving her abusive then-boyfriend, ...
Posted Wednesday, March 26th 2014 at 11:43AM
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(March 3, 2014) OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Legislation that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and set a penalty for such sales is available for a vote on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. House Bill 2904, by state Rep. Pat Ownb ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 2:44PM
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(March 24, 2014). CNN (CNN) -- Amid the void of information on their fates, it seems at times that the passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been reduced to a number. Two hundred and thirty-nine. Yet, as their families and others ...
Posted Tuesday, March 25th 2014 at 2:34PM
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Michelle Obama is using her time in China to promote the power of technology and freedom of information.
During a speech at Peking University in Beijing Saturday, our First Lady told students that the free flow of information is crucial “because tha ...
Posted Monday, March 24th 2014 at 2:21PM
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Mental health at work is an issue for all businesses, of all sizes, from self-employed singletons to corporations that employ thousands. Speaking in Parliament in January this year, Norman Lamb, the UK Minister for Care and Support, noted that at lea ...
Posted Monday, March 24th 2014 at 1:19PM
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(MedPage Today). What's the biggest barrier to practicing medicine today? Hospitals employing physicians and limiting their ability to refer, says Inell Rosario, MD, an otolaryngologist in St. Paul, Minn., in response to one of 10 questions MedPage T ...
Posted Monday, March 24th 2014 at 12:52PM
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The word ‘empathy’ is an abused word. We all like to think we understand it and use it effectively in our nursing care, but do we? Even if we’re aware of the potential of listening closely with empathy, how often do we go beneath the surface convers ...
Posted Monday, March 24th 2014 at 11:28AM
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(Mar 21, 2014) Knowledge of the signs of stroke appears to be low among U.S. women, particularly Hispanics, a survey showed.
Slightly more than half of the participants (51%) identified sudden one-sided weakness or numbness of the face or a limb a ...
Posted Saturday, March 22nd 2014 at 11:01AM
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We have launched the "Becoming A Beautiful Woman Inside And Out" program for girls ages 12-17! We have designed an agenda that will be engaging and empowering to these young ladies and WILL change their lives! Our workshops offer special age appropri ...
Posted Friday, March 21st 2014 at 1:53PM
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