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SHOWTIME SAYS… Enough is enough!!! First there were skinny jeans…then it was the jeggings…now THIS!! Lil Wayne was spotted court side at the Miami Heat game over the weekend with his  his weed and gun carrier right hand man Mack Maine wearing what appears to be UGGS! BUT…heres the gotcha gotcha…They’re not Uggs…they are actually […]

SHOWTIME SAYS… J. Cole was in New York celebrating his birthday over the weekend.  Jermaine brought in his born day with a performance at NYC’s Webster H all

Shkumbin Sherifi was arrested last weekend after FBI agents tracked him to a meeting in Wilmington with a government informant posing as a hit man. Agents say the 21-year-old paid the informant $4,250 in cash toward the first killing. Officials say the plot was masterminded by Sherifi’s imprisoned older brother Hysen Sherifi, who was sentenced […]

Nearly 60 volunteers hit the streets in Wake and Orange counties before dawn three days this week, carrying hot coffee, blankets and a meal for people sleeping on church stoops, under bridges and on cold concrete. The group is part of a national project called 100,000 Homes that works to combat homelessness in communities across […]

Perdue issued a statement at noon Thursday saying her focus is on improving the state’s education system and “my race for re-election will only further politicize the fight to adequately fund our schools.” “The thing I care about most right now is making sure that our schools and schoolchildren do not continue to be the […]

The Lakewood YMCA is back. Check out Brian Dawson speaking on all that he learned at the Y. Brian’s Story from Francis George on Vimeo.

SHOWTIME SAYS… Maino is prepping to release his latest mixtape “I Am Who I Am” and here is a video trailer promoting the tape. There is even some footage in here from Maino’s visit to club Bodi in Raleigh

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office charged a 27-year-old man with communicating threats Tuesday after a lockdown at Wake Technical Community College. Franklin Delano Rawls Jr., of Axum Road in Garner, is accused of threatening Latasha Stroud, also of Garner. He was being held on a $500 secured bond. “This incident appears to be domestic-related and […]

Congratulations to Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer for their Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the hit movie “The Help”. “The Help” was also nominated for Best Picture. Check out my favorite scene in the movie…..Minny’s Chocolate Pie…

Hundreds of people who live in the Friendly Avenue-Hobbs Road area in Greensboro are pooling their efforts to stop a proposed shopping center from coming to their neighborhood. About 300 of them showed up at a meeting Sunday night forming the Friendly Coalition against the shopping center that could include a Trader Joe’s grocery store. […]

Criminal justice professors are taking aim at drug and gang-related activity in North Carolina. A group from North Carolina Central University said it’s an issue that continues to drive violent crime in our communities. “I was involved in a gang because I was looking for a family. I was a part of a very abusive […]