New England Sun-Times

By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press  Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed landmark legislation Tuesday banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, making New York the first large city or state in the country to prohibit sales to young adults. During a brief ceremony at City Hall, Bloomberg said raising the legal purchase age from 18 to 21 will help prevent young people from experimenting with tobacco at the age when they are most likely to become addicted. City health officials say 80 percent of smokers start before age 21. The mayor, a former smoker, also signed legislation setting a minimum price for all cigarettes sold in the city: $10.50 per pack. The same new law bans retailers from offering coupons, 2-for-1 specials, or other discounts. In signing the bills, Bloomberg turned away criticism that the measures would be economically harmful to thousands of city convenience stores and possibly lead to job losses. "This is an is...

Footlocker is CRAZY for THIS one. Check out Mike Tyson handing Holyfield his ear back. Absolutely funny! Here's the video... click to play below

Paris Hilton was at the Storm Music Festival in China November 17th, and met with the Universal Zulu Nation's founder Afrika Bambaataa. Hilton is very serious about her new caraeer as a deejay and commands a pretty high fee for her services. The Universal Zulu Nation was formed in 1973 in the Bronx, New York when Bambaataa decided to end gang wars with the creation of a unified front. Zulu Nation promotes four spiritual principles: Peace, Unity, Love and Havin' Fun, through music and Culture.  On her Instagram page, Paris wrote: "Awesome meeting #AfrikaBambaataa last night at The Storm Music Festival. Such a cool guy, dope performance last night at the show. #OldSchool #HipHopLegend #ZuluNation #Killingit "  Check out Paris Hilton deejaying at Club Create

Njai Joszor   K. Michelle did not go on stage with a sheer pair of leggings and no undergarments. Nor did she  show a venue full of fans her "hot pocket." According to K. Michelle, the outfit she had on Saturday night, at The Shrine in Chicago, IL, was  photo-shopped to make it look like her "hot pocket" was visible (as pictured). "Y'all tweeting about a photo- shopped picture of my hot pocket. U broke bums should ask somebody  to photo shop your pockets 2make them fatter," the "Pay My Bills" singer wrote (via Twitter ) after she became a  trending topic late Saturday night. "We crave a different kind of buzz." I can't necessarily say the pictures were photo-shopped like K. Michelle claims. While the pictures above  look like her "hot pocket" was out for everyone to see, if you watch the video below you can see it  was just the fit of her outfit...

(Charlotte, North Carolina) - A Charlotte-area woman says her 11-year-old grandson confessed to dropping his sibling and has now been charged by police in the infant’s death. Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department charged the young boy with felony child abuse for his involvement in the death of 6-month-old Kamdyn Barnell Johnson. The juvenile’s name is not being released due to his age. Police say “the 11 year old is in the custody of his grandparents.” Earlier this week, CMPD announced Wendy Latwann Johnson, seen below, had been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child abuse causing serious bodily injury in the death of her child. The warrant says that the baby suffered a “subgaleal hemorrhage and hemorrhage to the right eye, injuries to both cheeks, forehead, nose, back of the head, lip, and has a torn frenulum.” The original incident was reported on Nov. 9th. Wendy Latwann Johnson According to a release from CMPD, officers arrived at the home a...

By Leonardo Blair November 13, 2013 | 10:34 am   Pastor Who Killed Self Battled Manic Depression, Struggled to Keep It Secret; Was Taking Medication, Had 'Physical Challenges'      His family knew and were trying to help, but everyone else was in the dark about Pastor Teddy Parker's mental health struggles until he shot himself in his truck in the driveway of his home in Warner Robins, Ga., on Sunday. "Everybody is just kind of stunned right now. I think a lot of people are just trying to understand why that happened. We're just praying to the Lord for guidance on this," Russell Rowland, one of Parker's disciples at Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., told The Christian Post Tuesday morning. By Tuesday evening, however, the painful truth behind Parker's death began slowly coming to light. "He was suffering with Bipolar (manic depression) and he had some emotional issues...

By  Daniel Burke and Livia Borghese , CNN ROME (CNN) - Pope Francis' crusade against corruption in the Catholic Church, including an overhaul of the scandal-scarred Vatican Bank, has put the new pontiff in the Italian mafia's crosshairs, according to two organized crime experts. "The strong will of Pope Francis, aiming to disrupt the gangrene power centers, puts him at risk. He disturbs the mafia very much," Nicola Gratteri, a top anti-mafia prosecutor in Italy, told CNN on Thursday. "I don't have precise information about a plan of the mafia against Pope Francis," Gratteri continued. "But if I did, I wouldn't say." Gratteri, a deputy prosecutor in Reggio Calabria, a city in southern Italy, is a well-known foe of Calabria's notorious mafia, known as 'Ndrangheta. The mob's anger with the Pope centers on the Vatican Bank, which the new pontiff has tried to reform, according to experts on...