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Chris Lighty, shown here with Sean "Diddy" Combs, was found dead in his Bronx apartment Thursday . Lighty, 44, was a longtime manager of 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey Hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty died Thursday morning after apparently shooting himself in the head in his Bronx apartment, sources told the Daily News. Lighty, 44 — a longtime manager of 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey — was found dead inside his South Riverdale apartment about 11:30 a.m., police sources said. It appeared he died from a bullet to his head, sources said. A gun was recovered next to his body. Law enforcement sources said Lighty — who divorced his wife, Veronica, last year — may have been dealing with financial struggles, including owing about $5 million to the IRS. Musicians began Tweeting about Lighty soon after news of his death spread. “R.I.P. Chris Lighty,” posted Fat Joe on his Twitter account. “That man saved my life.”

By WBUR Newsroom August 29, 2012 Rashad "Rizzy Drogma" Barnes BOSTON — Boston Police announced Wednesday that they have made an arrest in connection with a daytime murder in Roxbury’s Dudley Square earlier this month. Police say Jahvon Goodwin, 21, of Boston, stabbed 24-year-old Rashad Lesley-Barnes on Aug. 15 after an argument on an MBTA bus. Lesley-Barnes was pronounced deceased later that day. Police arrested Goodwin Wednesday morning and have charged him with murder. Goodwin is expected to be arraigned at Roxbury District Court Wednesday afternoon.

We learned Tyler Perry’s studios were burning again! Atlanta Fire crews were on the scene of a fire at the Tyler Perry Studios in southwest Atlanta late Monday morning. Now we know construction materials on top of a building in the complex went up in flames. No injuries were reported. This marks the second time in recent months that a fire was reported at the movie studios. You may remember back in May a four alarm fire damaged the huge Tyler Perry studio complex in southwest Atlanta. It took over 100 firefighters and 20 trucks slightly over one hour to put out the blaze that started around 8:40 p.m., according to Atlanta fire officials. Several eyewitnesses said they heard explosions and could see the fire from afar. Some said that they thought it was a part of a film production until they saw the fire trucks move in. The studios hosted a fundraiser for President Barack Obama back in March. The financial cost of the ...

A Georgia man was arrested after a friend said the man stole his identity and used it to practice medicine illegally. Ernest Osei Addo, 48, is accused of treating as many as 500 patients in South Carolina without a license. He was hired by Agape Senior, which operates 23 nursing and assisted living facilities throughout the Midlands area, in February. Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said he presented the company with a medical license. But an Orangeburg, S.C., doctor told police that Addo had stolen his identity. In addition to practicing medicine under his name, the doctor said, Addo was running up his credit card bills. Addo was arrested at his Austell, Ga., home Friday – two days after he quit his job at Agape Senior. Police are looking into whether he had any medical training or has ever had a license to practice medicine. He has no criminal record. In a statement, Agape Senior said Addo “came highly recommended...

Two teenagers were arrested after cutting into the roof of a mall in Houston to steal Nike Air Jordan sneakers. A security guard at Greenspoint mall, on the north side of Houston, saw the thieves in the Foot Action store early Wednesday morning and called police. John Grant, 19, (seen below) and another male, 16, were arrested at the scene, but a third suspect believed to be around the same age fled. “We believe we know the identity of the third male who fled on foot and is still wanted,” Cannon said. John Cannon, Houston Police spokesman, said officers responded to a burglary call at 4:45 A.M. on Wednesday and found the suspects stole 16 pairs of Nike Air Jordan sneakers valued at $175 each.   Limited editions of specific Nike sneakers, such as the soon-to-be-released LeBron X Nike Plus basketball sneaker, are often bought and re-sold for costs as high as $1,000. Violence and long lines have plagued stores like F...

One student shot another in a Baltimore area high school Monday, giving students a lesson in terror on their first day back in school, police said. The shooting at Perry Hall High School was reported around 11 a.m. and within minutes SWAT teams had surrounded the suburban school and students could be seen evacuating the buildings. Police quickly apprehended a suspected gunman and local TV showed footage of a shirtless young man in handcuffs being marched to a police cruiser. The suspect’s name was not known, but students posting on Facebook hinted at the horror they had just endured. “First day of school, last day of my life,” wrote one. The 17 year old victim, who had reportedly been shot in the back, was flown by chopper to a nearby hospital. The condition and identity of the student was not known. Located in a suburb northeast of Baltimore, Perry Hall has 2,300 students and just last week was visited by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. SOURCE: NYD/C...

Gabby Douglas and Oprah Winfrey spoke about the horrors that Douglas faced on her way to Olympic gold. Gabby Douglas overcame several challenges to win two Olympic gold medals — none more shocking than cold shoulders and slurs from some racist fellow gymnasts. On her way to London and triumph as the first African-American gymnast to win individual all-around Olympic gold, 16 year old Gabby, nearly gave up her dream because she was tormented at a gym where she trained in Virginia Beach, Va.  “I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out,” she told Oprah Winfrey in a segment on “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” She recalled a specific example of racism. “One of my teammates was like, ‘Could you scrape the bar?’” she remembered. “And they were like, ‘Why doesn’t Gabby do it, she’s our slave?’” “I was the only African-American at that gym,” Ga...

4 American soldiers have been charged in a plot to overthrow the government and assassinate President Barack Obama, marking one of the most credible and high-profile plots on his life since his election in 2008. The soldiers, based in Georgia, allegedly planned to take over the state’s Fort Stewart and carry out bombings in Savannah and Washington state using $87,000 worth of “guns and bomb-making materials” they had allegedly amassed, according to the Atlantic Wire. Prosecutors said the group’s bombing targets included a famous fountain in one of Savannah’s gracious parks and a dam in Washington, and that they also planned to poison a Washington state apple crop. But the ambitious plans were uncovered during testimony Monday in the course of an investigation into the Dec. 4 killings of former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend Tiffany York after they became aware of the group’s plot, according to the AJC...

A Camden, N.J., mother decapitated her 2-year-old son she only recently regained custody of before stabbing herself to death early Wednesday morning. 33 year old Chevonne Thomas, and her son, Zahree Thomas, were found dead by police who stormed their home after responding to a 911 call after midnight from the woman saying someone had harmed her son. The headless child was found on the first floor, his mother in her second floor bedroom, according to multiple media reports. The boy’s head was found in the freezer. When police first arrived, Chevonne Thomas was still on the phone with emergency operators. Not knowing if she was armed or if anyone else was still in the home, police retreated and formed a perimeter. By the time cops broke a second floor window and entered the residence, the woman was found dead from a self-inflicted stab wound to her neck. The shocking crime stunned cops hardened from decades of experience in one of the country’s most violent citi...

WFTV talked with a Casselberry man who’s behind bars after investigators said a 15-year-old girl claims she was gang raped while on a Carnival cruise ship. Investigators said the girl was raped on the Carnival Sensation cruise ship by the man who then encouraged other attackers to do the same. WFTV’s Jeff Deal talked with the suspect, 31-year-old Casey Dickerson, in jail on Tuesday. Dickerson denied raping anyone. “The cruise was great itself,” said Dickerson. It was supposed to be a fun vacation with his wife to the Bahamas, leaving on the Carnival Sensation from Port Canaveral last Thursday. Instead, Dickerson is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl while on board. “What did you guys do in that room?” Deal asked. “I’d rather not say,” replied Dickerson. “Did you rape that girl?” Deal asked. “Not at all,” he replied. According to investigators, a group of underage people asked Dickerson to buy them alcohol. ...

Just when it seemed that Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson’s situation couldn’t get any worse, exclusive details allege he was cheating on wife Evelyn Lozada with a string of alleged mistresses right under her nose. The disgraced former NFL star has been carrying out a number of illicit affairs with several women for the past year, a source exclusively told Radar, including an aspiring model and stripper from Atlanta named Amber Priddy who he was allegedly paying the rent for until his own financial situation took a downward spiral. “Chad has been paying Amber $2000 a month for her apartment and flying her in and out of Miami so they could meet up,” said our insider, but now the former Black Men Magazine Model Of The Year has been evicted from her apartment on Atlanta’s famous Peachtree Street, according to court documents, and she posted a plea on Twitter this week asking for help moving. The raunchy revelations come after Chad’s bombshell week that started with his arre...

ThreeStripesMedia -- Denzel Washington took a stroll across the set of "Two Guns" on Tuesday, July 24 and the community of Amite, Louisiana stood by and watched the Oscar-Winner on the set of "Two Guns". The $90 million dollar movie is set to hit theaters next year and co-stars none other than Mark Wahlberg [formerly of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch]. "Two Guns" will be filmed in Amite and New Orleans, and also stars Mark Wahlberg. It's a big budget movie. At least $90 million. And it's set for release next year. As far as Oscar winners go, Denzel Washington isn't usually the type of actor to wear prosthetics or gain and lose a lot of weight in order to play a character. But as the 57-year-old star stepped onto the New Orleans set of the Universal Pictures action film 2 Guns, it was clear that he had decided to finally alter his movie star smile with some gold-capped teeth. Wearing a bushy goatee and a diamond crucifix, the...