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Serena loses match, threatens to shove ball down official's throat
7:00 AM on 09/13/2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Serena Williams walked toward the line judge, screaming, cursing and shaking a ball in the official's direction, threatening to "shove it down" her throat...
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Track star's father outraged at hermaphrodite reports
2:55 PM on 09/11/2009
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Gender tests on running sensation Caster Semenya determined she has internal male sexual organs, Australian newspapers reported Friday, triggering new outrage from South Africa and her father...
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Michael Jordan is inducted into basketball's Hall of Fame
2:26 PM on 09/11/2009
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Michael Jordan, maybe the greatest of them all, is taking his place alongside basketball's other greats...
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World's oldest person dies at 115
1:53 PM on 09/11/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest known person, died Friday at a nursing home. She was 115. Baines likely suffered a heart attack but an autopsy...
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Jermaine Jackson moves MJ tribute to London
8:25 AM on 09/11/2009
VIENNA (AP) - The original plan had been to stage the tribute outside a 17th century palace in Vienna. Instead, it will be held at London's Wembley Stadium...
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- 11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging
- Heavy rains swamp camps holding Haiti's homeless
- Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
- Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
- Rangers manager: I used marijuana, amphetamines
- Obama skips Asia trip to push health care bill
- Presidential disrespect goes prime-time in Obama's Fox interview
- Baller-in-chief: Obama's 'March Madness' bracket scores well
- Conservatives use abortion issue to court African-Americans
- Will Michael Jackson's new music be a thriller for fans?
- Could 2010 be the year of the black Republican?
- Five reasons Tiger will come roaring back
- Robert Townsend turns serious with 'Diary of a Single Mom'
- DMX sentenced to six months in Phoenix jail
- Oprah to appear in sex-abuse, defamation trial
- Slideshow: TV's black child stars - where are they now?
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Jackson estate lands largest recording deal ever
- Maryland trying to secede from the South
- Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
- Paterson claims he made initial scandal leak
- Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
- House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
- Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
- Ex-porn star reveals purported Tiger texts
- The 15 most memorable 'March Madness' moments
- Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
- Arenas: 'I deserve to be punished' for gun prank
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
- Selma, a town rich with history, seeks new legacy
- 'Black Ski' gets a lift from the First Family
- Slideshow: A glimpse of Hawaii's gorgeous landscape
- How to celebrate Black History Month in the Big Apple
- Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
- Kucinich switches vote, will back health reform
- Late-innings hardball in health care push
- Michelle Obama talks to anti-obesity food giants
- It's 'do or die' week for health care reform - how did we get here?
- Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
- Made in America: Black-owned businesses blaze trails on our soil
- GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs' executive salaries
- Is the average single black woman really worth just $5?
- 'March Madness' isn't amateur, it's big league exploitation
- Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs
- Wealth gap greatest for black and Latino women
- Barbershop Buzz: Should 'No Child Left Behind' be left behind?
- Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
- Children help mother deliver fourth child
- Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
- Congressional Black Caucus calls current jobs bill 'inadequate'
- Paterson's press secretary resigns amid scandal
- 'Brooklyn's Finest' is flawed but fiercely entertaining
- Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
- Black music without borders: Five artists you need to hear
- 'Ameriville': Stories of Hurricane Katrina still alive onstage
- Sade's return is worth the wait
- Aid groups struggle to get food, water to Haitians
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