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Tune in to Fox50 this Saturday at 10:35PM for episode 7 of The BSpot starring Brian Dawson.
We want to know who you’re rolling with for the Superbowl. Will it be the Giants or the Patriots? What do you think the score will be? Who’s going to be the MVP?
Ludbin Garcia, 32, and Marcelo Renato Mesa-Villela, 37, were accused Thursday of conspiring to traffic between 200 and 400 grams of cocaine, according to the warrants. Garcia, a Raleigh resident, is from Honduras. Apparently he worked as a dump truck driver in North Carolina, according to police reports. In December 2011 he was charged with […]
SHOWTIME SAYS… Rozay celebrated his birthday at Club Amnesia in Miami last weekend. The party attendees included the usual Miami suspects like DJ Khaled, Diddy, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose along with Meek Mill and more. Of course the special guest of the night was Dr. Dre. Dre and Ross have been down in Miami […]
Leon Stanback, who was a judge from 1989 until his retirement in 2009, was appointed today by Gov. Bev Perdue to serve as the interim DA in Durham. Stanback also is a former member of the state’s parole board, and was an assistant district attorney in Guilford County in the 1970s. He has also been […]
Kurtis Blow was the first Hip Hop artist to appear on Soultrain performing “The Breaks”…….
Cash Out signs to L.A. Reid’s Epic Records. He talked with J. Nicks of the Durrty Boyz about his deal that he inked the night before. He goes on to say that the process took nearly 9 hours to complete the deal. Check out the exclusive HotSpotAtl.com interview below.
A newly discovered letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master is creating a buzz. Letters of Note explains that in August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote to his former slave Jourdan Anderson, requesting that Jourdan return to work on his farm. In the time since escaping […]
Don Cornelius — who famously created “Soul Train” was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, CA home this morning … and law enforcement sources tell us it appears he committed suicide. We’re told cops discovered the body at around 4 AM PT. Law enforcement sources tell us … Cornelius died from a gunshot wound to […]
Judge Charles Anderson awarded four deferred prosecution verdicts and three prayers for judgment Monday for charges filed in the Nov. 13 occupation of the vacant car dealership building on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. One defendant – Kassandra Ofray, 21, of Pittsboro – did not appear in court to answer a breaking and entering charge. […]
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx won’t run for governor, ending several days of speculation as to whether he would seek the Democratic nomination in the wake of Gov. Bev Perdue’s surprise decision not to seek reelection, the Charlotte Observer is reporting. “Over the past few days I have given serious consideration to a run for governor […]
KINGSTON-Reggae star, Elephant Man, real name Oneil Bryan has been charged with rape and sexual assault in Jamaica. Jamaican police claim that the charges stem from an incident that happened at his home in St. Andrew earlier this month. The Jamaica Gleaner reports: The police said detectives assigned to the Centre for the Investigation of […]