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police continued to search Friday for the gunman who fired multiple shots into a Maybach on I-20 Thursday afternoon, killing a man inside luxury car. We’ve learned the driver was popular rapper/producer/music mogul Freeband Double D! Insiders are already saying it was a hit. Freeband was not only a talented artist, but also a very successful business man. He helped put together financing for many hip hop artists like Rocko, Future and Rick Ross. He was a giant in the music industry. The incident happened in the area of I-20 westbound at Glenwood Avenue around 5:15 p.m. Witnesses told police that shots were fired from a white SUV, which fled the scene, DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. An off-duty Atlanta police officer was the first person on the scene, stopping after noticing gunshot damage to a vehicle that was partially...

Another day, another Republican official uses a racist term “from their youth” that hasn’t been in use for decades. County Commissioner Jim Gile, 68, of Saline County, Kansas, was in a study session with his fellow commissioners when the subject of hiring an architect to design the repairs for the county’s Road and Bridge Department building came up. Gile, a first-term commissioner who started serving in January, told the county that he preferred to hire an architect over having someone “nigger-rigging it.” His comment brought laughter from others in the room. Ray Hruska, who attends most commission meetings and study sessions, asked Gile what he said. “Afro-Americanized,” Gile replied. “He’s like that congressman from Alaska,” Commission Chairman Randy Duncan can be heard to say of Gile’s comment. Duncan was referring to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who in a recent radio interview called Latino ranch workers at his father’s farm “wetbacks.” And just like Rep. Y...

The internet is blowing up with rumors there was a bloody fight on the set of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta last night. Apparently one of the cast members face was sliced during the drama! Insiders say Erica and Shay “Buckeey” Johnson were invited to the launch of Karli Redd’s new line of hair weave. Things got nasty when the two women spotted each other. You may know, these two are both competing for rapper Scrappy. “They ran towards each other and started fighting. Shay was winning then Erica pulled something out and hit Shay in the face.” Witnesses are saying Erica sliced Shay’s face with a damn razor blade. ------------------------ ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------ Cashawna Bonita Jewelry: Fine Jewelry for Fine Divas We’re told Shay’s face immediately opened up and blood was everywhere. “It was like a horror movie.” Shay was rushed to the hospital but we’re told her injuries aren’t life threatening.   We're is still waiting to hear if cops we...

I just can’t! The Phoenix woman accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. The vibrator had to be surgically removed. 21 year old Rickesha Burns, called police almost two weeks ago, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus but said she didn’t know exactly what happened. She said she was at a park with her son that day, March 24, and while she was “looking at a text message for about 10 seconds,” a boy she didn’t know at the park did “something” to her son. “She said she does not know what he did but is sure he did something,” a probable-cause statement says. The boy was taken to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and doctors discovered that he had numerous bruises around his anus, a “hanger-type” bruise on his hip, and yet another bruise on his neck. Doctors also found an object lodged in his rectum, which appears to be “a vibrator or some other sex toy.” Police interviewed Burns, who still...

Diddy’s twin daughters were surrounded by drugs and even covered in a mysterious white powder according to a new lawsuit filed against the baby mama. Nanny Dawn Drago says she worked for Diddy’s ex, Kim Porter, from 2011 to 2012. Drago claims Kim chain-smoked pot in the house while the young girls were home. She also says marijuana was not Kim’s only drug of choice. She allegedly found cocaine as well, and on one occasion she says she was driving the kids to school and noticed they were covered “in a white powdery substance.” Drago claims the kids got into “a bag containing the powder, along with clear capsules, filled with another powdery substance in a bag in the back seat.” Drago says she confronted Kim, who said the bag contained “medicine.” Oh, there’s more. Drago also claims Kim verbally and violently abused her before eventually firing her last year. As for why she was fired … Drago says the marijuana smell was choking and she dared to complain she co...

The daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s controversial former pastor, has been accused of laundering money in an alleged $1.25 million fraud led by an ex-police chief in Illinois. Jeri L. Wright, 47, (seen on the left) was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly accepting $28,000 from former police chief Regina Evans and her husband, ex-police officer Ronald Evans, for Wright’s supposed work related to the Evanses’ not-for-profit program called We Are Our Brother’s Keeper. Approximately $20,000 of that money, however, found its way back into bank accounts controlled by the Evanses, prosecutors said. According to a release from the Department of Justice, Wright was playing a part in a scheme by the Evanses to misuse a $1.25 million state grant that had been awarded to the not-for-profit program in 2009.     ------------------------ ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------ Fine Jewelry for Fine Women: www.cashawnabonita.com ...

A 24-year-old man acted a fool on a Miami-Dade County Circuit judge during his bond hearing Wednesday. Police arrested Jodel Leveille about 1 a.m. He was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, battery, and criminal mischief. Leveille punched his girlfriend repeatedly, then resisted arrest and spit on an officer, according to police. During his bond hearing later in the morning, Judge Ellen Sue Venzer said she found probable cause against him on the battery charge, setting Leville off. “F*ck you, judge! You b*tch! F*ck you!” he yelled. Leville walked away from the podium, then returned while flipping her off. “That b*tch stabbed me! F*cking b*tch! Your officers beat my ass so f*ck you!” he continued. “They beat my ass and stabbed my ass! I had a restraining order against that b*tch! F*ck you!” “I can’t imagine why, sir,” replied Venzer. “F*ck you and your court! F*ck you! Can’t nobody — you can’t judge me!” he answered. “You know what I am going to do, M...

A local “video vigilante” has furnished more than enough evidence to catch a 27-year old Oklahoman providing sexual services to her client using a drone that is equipped with a camera. The act was caught on camera, where it happened in the front seat of a car, and hence, this has left no room for Amanda Zolicoffer to do anything else other than to plead guilty to a public lewdness charge. As a result of her guilty plea, she was then sentenced to a year in state prison, and this is a term that will run concurrently alongside other lengthier sentences that she picked up in the previous month that concerns and unrelated felony prosecution. As for the case against Zolicoffer’s co-defendant, 76- year old Douglas Blansett, that case remains pending. Both Zolicoffer and Blansett were hit with a public lewdness charge after a self-described “video vigilante” shared with the Oklahoma City cops footage of the two of them coupling in the front seat of Blansett’s truck. The drone’s foot...

Authorities are deciding whether to charge anyone after police say a 6-year-old was shot in the head by a 4-year-old in New Jersey. The older boy is in serious condition. Authorities are still investigating how the younger child obtained the .22-caliber rifle from his family’s Toms River home Monday night. Police Chief Michael Mastronardy says the children were outside the 4-year-old’s home when the boy went inside, got the rifle and shot the 6-year-old about 15 yards away. It’s not clear if the 4-year-old pulled the trigger or if the rifle accidentally discharged. The parents of the 4-year-old were home at the time. No names have been released. The shooting comes amid debate over gun control laws in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News SOURCE: ABCNEWS

At least 15 people were injured and a suspect is in custody after a stabbing at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star College Tuesday morning. The stabbings happened about 11:20 a.m. at the campus at 9191 Barker Cypress, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Thomas Gilliland, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, said one suspect was detained after he was wrestled to the ground by a student. He is a 21-year-old student, seen below, Sheriff Adrian Garcia said in a statement. Video evidence indicates there are no other suspects for now, the sheriff said. “The entire campus is being searched for evidence,” the statement said. The incident happened near the campus Health Science Center, according to an alert on the college website. Capt. Robert Rasa of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department said 12 people were rushed to area hospitals afte...

  The 9-year-old Bronx girl who cops suspect strangled herself with a shower curtain in an apparent suicide has been identified as Justice Williams. Justice’s mother made the horrific discovery at the family’s home around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The girl was declared dead at Jacobi Hospital 12 minutes later. The mother, Tamiqua Torres, had written on her personal blog that her daughter was unhappy about becoming a big sister. “We were as happy as happy could be until one day my then 8 year old woke up and decided that she wasn’t exactly thrilled about being a Big Sister,” Torres wrote. The girl told family members she “wanted to die” when she learned her mom was pregnant — prompting her mother to get her professional help, according to sources. Torres, 31, decided to check on the 9-year-old girl Sunday because she was taking too long in the shower, according to police sources. She walked in and found her daughter motionless, with a white cloth ...

Authorities in South Carolina have identified the toddler who was found abandoned on a stranger’s doorstep with a note on her diaper that read “Call DFAC” or Division of Family and Child Services, and arrested her parents. After four days of investigating, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said that the child is 4-year-old Zoe Brown of Marietta, Ga. Brown’s parents — 31-year-old Alonzo Brown and 37-year-old Tongela Denise McBride — were arrested Friday night on charges of unlawful neglect of a child. Chad McBride, the public information office for the Anderson County Sherriff’s Office, said that having the girl’s story shared through social media and the news media helped lead to the discovery of the toddler’s identify and the arrest of her parents. According to Chad McBride, who is not related to Denise McBride, posts on the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page featuring Zoe Brown’s picture were shared more than 2 million times. “Just putting the ...

The victim of a bloody ambush Monday in Dorchester is now denying that she told detectives the father of her baby son held her down her while his new girlfriend stabbed her repeatedly with a butcher’s knife! WTH! Prosecutors say 21 year old Angeleek Barros, told detectives moments after the assault that her ex boyfriend, Daquan Sparks, seen above, restrained her while 17 year old Samia Jones, stabbed her six times with a blade that measured 10 to 12 inches long. But in an interview at Boston Medical Center with police a day after the attack, Barros changed her story, saying Sparks was there during the attack but did not restrain her, said Jennifer OKeeffe, Suffolk assistant district attorney, during Sparks’ arraignment Friday morning in Dorchester District Court. Barros is saying she never told detectives that Sparks held her. “I will say I spoke with detectives Doogan and Schroeder, who were very clear on what Miss Barros originally reported to them, that t...

Reggie Wade and Monique McMillian-Wade got engaged in a Walmart parking lot, wore gold-and-black T-shirts to their wedding and got married at a funeral. “I didn’t think you could do that at a funeral,” McMillian-Wade said. “I never even heard of that on TV.” Their March 9 nuptials took place during the funeral of Wade’s uncle, Gregory “Chops” Scott, who allegedly had been gunned down by his own cousin and another man Feb. 27 outside Scott’s West Philly home. Before his death, Scott had promised to walk McMillian-Wade, 29, down the aisle, since her own father died years ago. Wade, 39, said that in a family big on promises, he and his bride wanted to honor the promise Scott had made, so they decided to combine their wedding with his funeral. “This was the last time his presence was gonna be here with us, and he promised me,” Wade said. “It’s like I got to live up to my word. We never lie to each other.” Scott’s widow, Alfreda Johnson-Scott, 56, supported the out-o...