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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS AROUND THE WORLD MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL .AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.HAVE A GREAT MOTHERS DAY AND ENJOY FROM BOYD AND LUCINDA

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 9, 2010 at 9:37am — No Comments

Getting inside the gang mentality

In a suburban high school cafeteria, a kid with an oversized white T-shirt and an easy smile is getting a lot of attention. It's readily apparent that the other students at the lunch table defer to him. As the school counselor, you ask around and find out this student is newly entrenched in gang life.

He was just talking to an honor roll student, attempting to recruit him and asking him to bring another friend along to meet after school. Near them is a girl who hangs out with the…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 5, 2010 at 9:56pm — No Comments

'Seeds Of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling The Taliban And Al Qaeda'

The Taliban may earn as much as $500 million every year from the drug trade. Yet the US does not classify the Taliban as a drug–trafficking organization. Should the US make a bigger effort to disrupt the opium trade in Afghanistan? Will destroying poppy fields only hurt small farmers but not the larger organization? Is it even possible to dismantle the opium trade without tearing apart Afghanistan's fragile economy? Journalist Gretchen Peters joins us to get to the bottom of the connection… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 4, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments

1 Detroit officer killed, 4 others wounded in shooting

Fallen Detroit officer ID'd in shooting that wounded 4 others

One officer was killed and four others were wounded while responding to a 911 call early this…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 3, 2010 at 6:59pm — No Comments

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Detroit -- One officer was killed and four others were wounded while responding to call early this morning at a vacant home in northeast Detroit occupied by a felon known for resisting arrest and carrying weapons.

Officer Brian Huff, 42, a…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 3, 2010 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Criminals use nurseries to launder cash

CRIME gangs are muscling in on children’s nurseries as a money-laundering front for their illegal activities, police chiefs have warned.

Detectives are investigating up to a dozen nurseries in the west of Scotland believed to be linked with gangsters, Scotland on Sunday has learned.

Sources said they believed the businesses were laundering funds from drugs and extortion rackets by creating “ghost children”, youngsters shown on their books to be in their care but…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on May 2, 2010 at 8:32pm — No Comments

MS-13 gang member sentenced to death in N.C.

April 29, 2010

- MS-13 gang member sentenced to death in N.C. -

A federal jury in North Carolina has handed down the first death sentence against a member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang, another milestone in the… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 30, 2010 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Jailed mobsters ’sent messages via DJ song requests’

Radio station among businesses closed as 30 arrested over involvement in Calabrian mafia

“I’m gonna write a little letter,” sang Chuck Berry. “Gonna mail it to my local DJ.”

Alleged mafia godfather Salvatore Pesce did the same but not just because he needed “a shot of rhythm and blues”.

Rather Pesce, jailed five years ago on suspicion of international narcotics trafficking, and his fellow mobsters are accused of using a local radio station to send…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 29, 2010 at 9:54pm — No Comments

Man gets 50-year term for rape and near-fatal beating

04/27/2010…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 27, 2010 at 10:24pm — No Comments

LETS PUT A LAW IN PLACE FOR REAL AGAINST THESE ABUSERS

IF THE LAW LOCK A MAN OR WOMAN UP FOR LIFE FOR SELLING DRUGS THEN WE NEED A LAW IN PLACE TO LOCK THESE WOMEN BEATERS AND WHO HURT OUR KIDS UP FOR LIFE ITS WRONG TO SELL DRUGS BUT WHY SHOULD THEY GET LIFE IN PRISON AND A PERSON WHO HURT OUR WOMEN AND KIDS GET A CLASS TO GO TO AND A SHORT TIME IN JAIL AND THEN COME OUT TO HURT OUR WOMEN AND KIDS AGAIN.....IM ON A MISSION TO GET THESE MONSTERS WHO HURT OUR WOMEN AND KIDS LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE.THEN YOU MONSTERS CAN FIGHT IN PRISON ALL DAY… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 27, 2010 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Malcolm X assassin Hagan freed on parole in NYC

NEW YORK — The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he assassinated the civil rights leader. Thomas Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program, state Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X as he began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 27, 2010 at 3:49pm — No Comments

LOS ANGELES BLACK BOOK EXPO AUG 21,2010

The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) will be held August 21, 2010 at the Sheraton Gateway LAX Hotel. We will host a full day of activity featuring authors, storytellers, spoken word and poetry performances, musicians, exhibitors, children's book authors, emerging writers, publishers, booksellers, panel discussions, editors, book reviewers, and others.

THINK..The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) will be held August 21, 2010 at the Sheraton Gateway LAX… Continue

Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 27, 2010 at 10:35am — No Comments

Community efforts can aid fight against crime

Police can catch armed robbers, but they can't prevent armed robberies.

To do that, it takes a community.

Residents need to work with police by reporting what they see and what they know, said Tod W. Burke, a criminal justice professor at Radford University in Virginia and a former police officer.

By being aware, such as noticing a vehicle circling a convenience store, someone can provide the clue an investigator needs, Burke said.

Everyone needs to reduce the…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 26, 2010 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Georgia inmates face long reality of sentence

At 15, Christopher Dent thought the worst that could happen to him and his buddies if they got caught for armed robbery would be a little time in juvenile detent…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 26, 2010 at 1:32pm — No Comments

ex- gang leader has insight to help save kids

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 25, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

A B.C. gangster — and witness to the Surrey Six murder case — comes clean

Anton Hooites-Meursing is a former gang member who helped police in the Surrey Six murder case April 25,…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 25, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

R.I.P. TO LEGENDARY..GURU..A TRUE PIONEER

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 24, 2010 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Cameron Douglas Gets 5 Years in Jail -- Michael Douglas Takes Full Blame

Cameron Douglas Gets 5 Years in Jail -- Michael Douglas Takes Full Blame (PICTURE)

April 20, 2010 08:12 PM EDT (Updated: April 21, 2010 11:26 AM EDT)

Cameron Douglas, the son of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas, has been sentenced to five years in jail on drug charges. The 31-year-old Master…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 23, 2010 at 11:45pm — No Comments

Michael Douglas’ Son Cameron Says Goodbye - Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

April 20, 2010 10:32 PM EDT (Updated: April 21, 2010 07:17 AM EDT)

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 23, 2010 at 11:40pm — No Comments

Michael Douglas' Son Cameron Douglas Gets 5 Years For Dealing Drugs?

(Updated: April 23, 2010 11:44 PM EDT)

Michael Douglas' Son Cameron Douglas Gets 5 Years in prison on a mandatory 10 year drug charge. How? Cameron Douglas is Michael Douglas' son that's how. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman took an hour of…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on April 23, 2010 at 10:42pm — No Comments