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Next year, Georgia will become one of the first states in the country to offer electronic testing for the General Educational Development exam, also known as the GED.

CALIFORNIA- Mimi Ash, a California woman had her home broken into while she was gone for weekend. She found out it wasn’t a burglary but a wrongful foreclosure. The New York Times reports: When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her possessions were gone: furniture, her son’s ski medals, winter […]

Washington– Moving from the Arizona desert to the bright lights of New York has given the Knicks’ Amare Stoudemire a way to express himself as a true fashion (power) forward.

When homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments, or attempting to modify their home loan, or even on occasion fully paid up but lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, they are in danger of having their home broken into and their possessions removed by the banks.

A passerby made a grisly discovery on an East Harlem street Wednesday – a dead woman, stuffed inside a suitcase, police said.

No sir buddy, that honor belongs to Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, whose most recent feat was a 28-point fourth-quarter comeback against the New York Giants, as far as NY Times writer William C. Rhoden is concerned: “Brady is the familiar pocket passer, the most consistent we have ever seen. On the other hand, no […]

From NY Daily News: Hot 97 radio bosses indefinitely suspended DJ Cipha Sounds Tuesday as dozens of Haitian community leaders stepped up their calls for his resignation. Activists and elected officials gathered outside the radio station on Hudson St. to voice their anger at the DJ’s on-air claim he is HIV-negative because he does not “mess with […]

Los Angeles — The mother of Mitrice Richardson, whose remains were found in remote area of Malibu Canyon after she went missing for several months, has asked officials to exhume her daughter’s body for further testing. Latice Sutton believes her daughter may have been a victim of foul play. Sutton made the announcement Monday at […]

Minnesota — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, responded Monday to recent comments by a GOP colleague who promised to hold hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims next year. “I got so concerned that when I heard about it I actually approached Congressman King on the House floor and told […]

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But how did this Bedford-Stuyvesant native crack the code to success and rise above the competition? With an experimental approach