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Student, 16, walked into class late and fired at two classmates with 12-gauge shotgun, critically wounding one and missing the other at Taft (California) Union High School on Thursday morning, police say Teacher was struck in head with pellet, but is OK, sheriff says Police: Suspect put gun down after teacher and "campus supervisor" talked to him; wounded student airlifted to hospital Below are the latest updates as they come to us. Also, you can read our full story . [Updated at 7:09 p.m. ET] An armed police officer is assigned to the school but he wasn't at the school at the time of the shooting because snowfall in the area prevented his arrival, authorities said. [Updated at 7:03 p.m. ET] A mother of a student witness recalls the moment that her daughter called her after the shooting: "She was telling me, 'Mom, get here, there’s blood everywhere," the woman CNN affiliate KERO.   [Updated at 5:55 p.m. ET] Here's more quotes

The Game might want to hold an emergency conference call with his stepfather because he just outted the West Coast rapper as an ex-stripper. WTH! This news comes just days after Game posted pics of his new & improved body! Hodari Sababu appears in the documentary Hood Life: A Hip Hop Guided Tour of Compton tour, which includes a story of his stepson’s (alleged) stripping past. In the film, put together by Pitchfork Media, Sababu gives a tour of areas in Compton, like the “stroll” on Long Beach Blvd. After explaining how to differentiate a prostitute who may have HIV/AIDS from a healthy specimen, he delves into the story of opening the strip joint with Game’s mom. “Me and Game’s mom, we started a male exotic club. What we used to do we used to come get guys fresh out of jail, you know they was buffed up and they needed money. A lot of these guys can’t go and fill out an application and get a job, but hey if they look good, they been working out, we put ‘em on.

Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx is a hit but folks are outraged that movie execs approved a slave doll. The eight-inch tall figurines, which include depictions of “house slave” Stephen (played by Samuel L Jackson in the film) and Jamie Foxx’s Django, have been produced by the National Entertainment Collectibles Association following consultation with the Weinstein Company, which produced Tarantino’s film. Najee Ali, director of the Los Angeles civil rights organization Project Islamic Hope, said the toys are “a slap in the face of our ancestors” and is calling for their removal from sale. “We were outraged,” Ali said. “We feel it trivializes the horrors of slavery and what African Americans experienced.” However, Ali is not opposed to the depiction of slavery in Django Unchained, nor its liberal use of the word “nigger”. Director Spike Lee, seen below, has spoken out against the film, promising not to see it and tweeting: “Amer

Target is NOT playing when it comes to deals! Tar-Jay says it will match Amazon’s prices 365 days a year! The discount chain said it would match prices of some online competitors all year, instead of just over the holidays. In addition to Amazon, Target will match prices from itself, Best Buy, Walmart and Toys R Us, Reuters reported. By matching Amazon’s prices, Target is ensuring that customers won’t check out a product in a retail store and then order it for cheaper from Amazon. The announcement comes after Target reported that sales in December were whack! It will also match the price if the customer finds the same item at a lower price within a week on Target’s website or the websites of Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy and Toys R Us. SOURCE: REUTERS

orry In Living Color fans but it looks like a newer version of the hit comedy show is DEAD! We should let you know the Wayans family is not amused. We toldya months ago Fox announced plans to reboot In Living Color. Well, it aint happening. An hour’s worth of footage was taped last spring, but Fox execs apparently hated it! In July, network chief Kevin Reilly told reporters the special wouldn’t be airing any time soon, leaving open just the slightest chance of an eventual burn-off broadcast. But now sources have confirmed that the ILC reboot will never see the light of day — at least on Fox. Maybe fans can still hope for a YouTube leak. SOURCE: VULTURE

Atlanta police have identified a female suspect in the shooting death of 23-year-old up-and-coming rapper, Justin “Yung Teddy” Mitchell. Yachari Kiyana Miller was charged for allegedly sending text message to Mitchell. Among the messages included “You a dead man walking,” and “This your year to die,” all of which Mitchell posted online. A day later he was dead. Mitchell’s body was found at a home in Austell, Ga. last week. Since there were witnesses to the fatal shooting , police are looking to apprehend two people believed to be involved but have yet to make any arrests. Both described as Black men, the first suspect is between 5-foot-4 and 5-foot-6 and covered his face with a navy blue bandana. The second suspect is described as being roughly 20 to 23 years old, has a thin build, and stands between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9. Authorities have charged Mitchell with one felony count of terroristic threats and acts. She is b

 This is heartbreaking and horrible at the same time! Pregnant South African women are deliberately drinking large quantities of alcohol to harm their unborn babies in a bid to get more welfare money! OMG! Expectant mothers living in the Eastern Cape, one of the poorest areas in South Africa, are bingeing on a ‘moonshine’ type drink which contains battery acid – with some drinking up to five and six bottles a day. It has been reported they do it to claim a disability benefit from the government – using their disabled children as a source of income. Families receive 250 South African rand ($28) per child, per month but a disabled child brings in 1200 rand a month ($134) – a “lucrative” income. SMDH! ‘If I don’t drink this, I’m like someone who is sick,’ one woman told Sky News. The addictive milky brown brew is made from yeast, water and battery acid. It is sold in illegal drinking spots called ‘shebeens’. Drinking whil

An alleged video model, accused in the death of another woman, following a concrete-filled butt injection procedure was apprehended in Memphis, last week. Natasha Stewart, who also goes by the name Pebbelz Da Model, is famed for her “48-inch backside” and was wanted for questioning in the demise of a female victim in Jackson, Miss. Stewart is believed to have referred 37-year-old Karima Gordon, seen below, to someone who was clearly not a law-abiding doctor—and perhaps not even a medical professional. The other culprit, Morris Garner, also known as Tracey Lynn Garner filled the woman’s backside with the dangerous substance in an attempt to give her a more curvaceous figure. Garner was previously charged with depraved-heart murder for her role in the fatality. The victim passed away when the concrete seeped into her bloodstream, and is one of many men and women who have died from similar injections. The 39-year

(BLACKSCOOP) 4-month-old Zoey Michelle Belcher is with her mother’s family in Texas. Jovan Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, of Long Island, has filed a petition to take custody of the girl. A custody battle has erupted over the 4-month-old daughter of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker and killer Jovan Belcher, who murdered her mother and then killed himself after fighting over the baby’s paternity. **(Jovan Belcher’s Mother Told Police There Was An Argument About The Baby’s Paternity Just Before The Murder-Suicide) The baby, Zoey Michelle Belcher, was left orphaned December 2012 when Belcher pumped 9 bullets into Kasandra Perkins and then drove to the Chief’s practice facility and pumped a bullet into his head as his coach watched. The fight pits Belcher’s mom(seen below) , Cheryl Shepherd of Babylon, Long Island against Perkins’ parents, who live in Texas. Belcher’s mom, who had temporary custody of Zoey after the tragedy, allow

A 22-year-old FOOL is accused of setting his girlfriend on fire following a stupid argument about clothes at a San Francisco laundromat. 25 year old Starr Lamare, is in critical condition, but is expected to recover, her family says. “Most of her face is burnt,” Precious Craig, the victim’s sister, told KGO in San Francisco. “Just a little bit of hair is still there, but most of her face is burned.” Authorities are looking for Dexter Oliver, who is facing attempted murder charges. Lamare’s relatives say Oliver became so pissed during the argument that he sprinted home to get gasoline and then ran back to the laundromat. “My sister wanted to leave her clothes at the laundromat so they could get washed but he didn’t want to leave them there, she said she does it all the time, but he got mad and threw the clothes down,” Craig says. Horrified witnesses who saw the victim on fire called on 911. “She took off her shi

Jason Lewis was at the counter of the Country House Diner in Clinton Hill, NY about 5 a.m. when a drunken Tyrone Gainer started grabbing Lewis’ girlfriend, witnesses said. She said something to Gainer and then Lewis, 34, intervened. Gainer, 27, smacked Lewis in the face. “Why’d you smack me?” Lewis demanded. “We don’t have to shed blood for this.” Gainer apparently disagreed, whipping out a .22-caliber handgun and ending the argument with senseless violence. Police responded but it was too late. “He just put the gun to his heart and pulled the trigger,” said Hakim Abdel, owner of the Fulton St. eatery. “Two seconds — it just took two seconds.” Lewis, who lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant less than a mile from the diner, was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center, but couldn’t be saved. Police collared Gainer and charged him with murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal use of a firearm. His prior arrests include one for

Diana Ross’ latest temper tantrum happened at a Beverly Hills restaurant last week. La Scala refused to seat the former Supreme when she arrived for lunch, since its policy is not to seat incomplete parties unless there is a reservation—and Ross’ daughter wasn’t there yet. Being the true diva she is…Ms. Ross stormed to a booth and sat down anyway, leading management to come over and reiterate the seating policy. Ross was also told that if she insisted on staying in the booth, she would not be served, but she stayed put. When her daughter arrived, there was of course a huge scene and both women ended up leaving angrily, sources say. “I’m sorry that Miss Ross had a problem with [our policy] and she feels that the rules didn’t apply to her,” the restaurant owner said. “We treat everyone the same whether you’re famous or not. We love having her as a customer. We’d be happy to have her back.” Gotta love her…lol! SOURCE : NYPOST

Long-time civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration, the Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC) announced Tuesday. As the widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was killed in his driveway in a racially charged murder in June 1963 in Jackson, Miss., her participation is significant in the second inauguration of the first black president. His murder was one of several events that year that contributed to the launch of the civil rights movement, which turns 50 this year. Evers-Williams said she is “humbled” to have been asked to participate. “It is indeed an exhilarating experience to have the distinct honor of representing that era,” she said in a statement released by the PIC. After the death of her husband (seen below), Evers-Williams became prominent in the civil rights movement and politics, including a three-year stint running the NAACP in the late 1990s. Additionally, Rev. Louie Giglio, pastor of

The University of Arizona has announced that it has created a “Hip-Hop Concentration” minor under the Africana Studies department, the first of its kind for any institution, according to the  school’s website . The course’s objectives are to “provide students with a solid introduction and broad understanding of the origins and developing of the forms of expression that make up hip-hop culture throughout the world: hip-hop dance, rap music, graffiti/tagging, fashion, business, and film. The minor introduces students to the main themes represented in hip-hop cultures: appropriation and defense of spaces, mixing of different cultures, migrations, multilingualism, race, class, gender, religions, sexuality, nationality, politics and the economy, and, the search for identity.” It’s evident that The University of Arizona is not afraid to try different things and be somewhat of a trendsetter. “The UA is more open to new, challenging, ambitious, creative and even contro

A former draft pick for the Minnesota Vikings and current Arena League player died Saturday during a flag football tournament in Florida. Wide receiver Chandler Williams apparently died of natural causes, Local10 first reported. He was only 27 years old. The wide receiver was a seventh-round draft pick of the Minnesota Vikings in 2007 out of Florida International. He got into NFL preseason games in four seasons but never played in a regular-season game, also spending time with the Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons and Kansas City Chiefs. Williams also played for the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts. He caught 83 passes for 996 yards and 17 touchdowns while leading the AFL with a 23-yard kickoff return average for the Tampa Bay Storm last season. The 5’11” player graduated from Miami High School. Storm President Derrick Brooks says ‘we are shocked and saddened.’ The CFL team said in a statement issued Sunday morning that they wer

For many, a funeral is a sad and solemn occasion. For others, while it’s still sad, it’s also a chance to throw a big party. And a new TLC series is spotlighting some of these extravagant, exuberant spectacles in a new series, “Best Funeral Ever.” Kerry Sanders reported on the phenomenon as spotlighted in the show on TODAY Friday, noting that these kind of bashes aren’t called funerals, but “homegoings,” and showed scenes from one particular celebration where mourners danced, ate ribs and wrangled pigs as a fountain flowed with barbecue sauce. (The decedent for that funeral, Willie “Wolf” McCoy, had been a singer on the famous Chili’s jingle about baby back ribs.) That’s the point of the funerals, which are based on a person’s life — a football fan might have items and activities related to the sport, a person who loved Christmas may have actual reindeer to show up at the party. Sanders noted the funerals can cost as upwards of $40,000, and in theory, the sky is

(BLACKSCOOP) A would-be burglar was looking to cash in, but instead found himself in a world of pain when a Georgia mother who refused to be victimized shot him multiple times in the face and neck. The Loganville woman, who was not identified, was in the home with her 9-year-old twins when someone began ringing the doorbell. Thinking it was just a door-to-door salesperson, she didn’t answer. But after he kept ringing the damn doorbell, he began prying the door open with a crowbar. She quickly retreated to an attic crawlspace with the children, but not before she also picked up her handgun. The burglar, whom police identified as Paul Ali Slater, did a room-by-room search of the home, and when he reached the attic, she was ready with her .38 revolver. She fired all six rounds, missing only once. The other shots hit Slater about the face and neck. “The guy was face down, crying. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.” Slater did eventually g

An Albuquerque mother is behind bars Friday, accused of beating her infant daughter to death. The girl, who was about to turn one, was found dead in her own home just days before Christmas. Police arrested 21-year-old June Ortega, who they say is the baby’s mother, Thursday night and charged her with child abuse resulting in death. On December 21st police responded to Ortega’s apartment in Northwest Albuquerque where they found the baby, who they say had blue lips and wasn’t breathing. Efforts to revive the girl failed and she was pronounced dead. An autopsy later revealed that the girl had four skull fractures and hemorrhages in her chest and stomach. Doctors say it appears as if she was hit with a hammer-like object. Investigators say this tragedy is a clear cut case of abuse. “The amount of trauma is overwhelming. OMI ruled that this is without a doubt, a homicide. The injuries could not have been accidentally in nature,” Officer Tasia Martinez with APD