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via Fox9: A judge has denied a request from Prince’s siblings to move the contents of his vault back to Paisley Park. The contents are currently in Hollywood, California, where wildfires have been burning for several days. Attorney William Skolnick, who represents Sharon and Norrie Nelson and their brother, John R. Nelson, filed an informal, emergency petition last […]

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GETTY IMAGES: Tuesday, August 30th.  On this date 50 years ago, the federal court system received its first African-American female judge. Constance Baker Motley was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and took her seat on the federal bench in the Southern District of New York. She served until her death in 1986, by which point […]

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Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas will join the judges panel for the Miss America 2017competition, the organization announced exclusively to USA TODAY Monday. Fresh from a winning performance with the Final Five women of the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team in Rio, Douglas will head to Atlantic City for the final round of competition, which will be […]

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A judge in Atlanta has granted a news media request to unseal the autopsy report for Bobbi Kristina Brown. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk on Thursday granted a motion filed by media organizations. Media lawyers argued the September sealing order violated the state and federal constitutions and court rules because there was no […]

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The City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association met for a second day in court amid concerns about whether police cadets should train in Columbus with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The question is whether Cleveland violated city code and city charter when entering into Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the OSHP to train the police department’s 135th cadet […]

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A 25-year-old Black woman is making history by becoming the youngest judge in the history of Easley, South Carolina. According to ForHarriet.com, Jasmine Twitty —…

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There is word tonight that some Cleveland community leaders will not wait for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office to make a decision in the Tamir Rice case. Instead, they will invoke a seldom-used Ohio law and take their case straight to a judge to request murder charges against the officers involved in the shooting death […]

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It’s official: Kierra Sheard has joined the judging panel of BET’s hit gospel music singing competition ‘Sunday Best’. With Season 7 of BET’s Sunday Best getting kicked off today with the audition process, the ‘You Don’t Know‘ singer was unveiled as the centerpiece of the BET show’s  judging line-up, which was announced via Instagram. According to our friends over at That Grape Juice, Miss Sheard, who […]

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  As finalist choirs from across the country prepare to perform for sold-out audiences and some of the biggest names in gospel music at Verizon’s How Sweet the Sound competition, they have an unlikely champion in GRAMMY®-nominated artist Tamela Mann. Mann, who joins the gospel music competition this year as a judge, recalls the first […]

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  (CNN) — A federal judge has dismissed the racial discrimination claims in a lawsuit filed by a former employee against Paula Deen, the celebrity…

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A Texas judge has ordered DNA testing on a man who claims to be the brother of the late “The Jeffersons” star Sherman Hemsley. Richard Thornton is challenging the validity of Hemsley’s will, which names the actor’s longtime manager, Flora Enchinton of El Paso, as sole beneficiary. Hemsley died of lung cancer July 24. Judge […]

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Kimberley Locke wants to fill that vacant judge’s chair on American Idol. The season 2 finalist feels having a former contestant on the show can bring renewed interest to the popular TV singing competition. “I would love to sit in that chair and, you know, give some advice from the contestant’s standpoint because I’ve been […]