New England Sun-Times

A Facebook feud got violent, putting a baby in the path of bullets. Six people, including a 10-month-old baby had to take cover inside a house while bullets were flying all around them. “All of a sudden he started shooting up in the air two times and then started shooting down,” grandmother Stephanie Howard said. “The bullets was flying across me. I was just stuck. I could not move.” “And the glass just scattered everywhere all over me,” she said. There is a hole in the frame of the window and a bullet in the wall inside the house. “The whole thing about a baby shower,” said Howard. Vaneesha Howard, the mother of the 10-month-old was also outside. She said the mother of the 18-year-old, Adarius Green, charged with the shooting, got angry because a baby shower was moved from her house. “Then she started talking about me on Facebook,” Howard said. Howard said Green’s mother then said her daughter and some other girls were coming over to her house. “They...

Rapper Young Vito was acquitted of the murder
 of Brick Squad member Slim Dunkin on Monday, but was sentenced to 25 years in prison on an aggravated assault charge. Vito (born Vinson Hardimon), dodged murder and felony murder charges in the killing of Dunkin (born Mario Hamilton, 24), who was slain in December 2011 during a fight with Hardimon at an east Atlanta studio. While a jury acquitted Hardimon of the murder charges, he was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a handgun during the commission of a felony for the altercation that ended in Dunkin’s death. In handing down the 25-year sentence on the gun charges, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall alluded to a gun incident involving Hardimon, 29, eight months before Dunkin’s death. In that case, Hardimon entered an “Alford” guilty plea — not admitting guilt, but saying that a prosecutor might find enough evidence to convince a jury to convict — over accusations ...

Numéro Magazine has found itself in the middle of a racially-charged firestorm after using a highly bronzed white model in one of its fashion editorials entitled "African Queen." In the spread, Ondria Hardin , a 16-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed model is seen with darkened skin, striking a pose for the glossy. The Huffington Post reached out to the magazine for comment and received the following statement Wednesday morning via email: Some people have declared that they have been offended by the publication in Numéro magazine n°141 of March 2013, of an editorial realized by the photographer Sebastian Kim called “African Queen”, featuring the A...

 Kanye West is definitely smoking something. It must be dope or dog food. Now there’s news that his already infamous on-stage rant included Presiden t Obama as a target! He had already went bananas on Jay-Z. “I don’t give a f**k what the president’s got to say,” the rapper said in his freestyle-like rant. This is the same guy who once referred to himself as “the abomination of Obama’s nation” in a song, which now seems pretty close to the truth. Kanye is almost certainly referring to the MULTIPLE times that President Obama has called him a “jackass.” Both times referring to Kanye’s infamous Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 VMAs, Obama dropped the insult first on an interview with CNBC, and then again in a story in The Atlantic. No one was safe in Kanye’s tirade. Going at his “big brother" Jay-Z and his new collaborator Justin Timberlake, Yeezy said, “I got love for Hov, but I ain’t f***kin’ with that ‘Suit & Tie.’” Adding to the profanity, Kanye r...

By Elwyn Lopez and P hil Gast , CNN Stanley Kirk Burrell, aka MC Hammer, was arrested February 21, 2013, in Dublin, California, for allegedly obstructing an officer. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 > >> STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Rapper argumentative, in vehicle with expired registration, police say MC Hammer arrested this week and released, police say Incident occurred at mall in Dublin, California Police have until his court date next month to decide on any charges Rapper MC Hammer launched a string of tweets Saturday with his side of the story two days after he was arrested in northern California for allegedly obstructing an officer. Among his tweets, Hammer said, apparently referring to the a...