Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died earlier today at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, suffered a heart attack on November 26th. In 1958, Hubbard moved to NY from Indianapolis, Indiana and in 1961, he released his first of many [...]

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 From Eonline Jason Merritt/Getty Images Here’s one holiday engagement that we can promise happened. America’s Next Top Model winner Eva Marcille (formerly Eva Pigford) said yes when Tyler Perry’s House of Payne star Lance Gross popped the question Christmas Eve. The couple, who met at an audition two years ago, were surrounded by family and [...]

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From the NY Times Bernard B. Kerik (Photo: Louis Lanzano/Associated Press) | WHITE PLAINS – Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who at one point was President Bush’s top choice to lead the federal Department of Homeland Security, pleaded not guilty on Monday morning to new tax-fraud charges that were added [...]

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 From Ahmedabad Newsline, India Another diamond worker committed suicide on Monday. Around nine cases of deaths have already been registered in the last fifteen days from this labour intensive industry. So grave is the situation that the NGOs, which were earlier working for HIV/AIDS affected people, have now shifted their focus on counselling the diamond [...]

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