Flooding on a scale rarely seen in New England forced hundreds of residents from their homes Wednesday, overwhelmed sewage systems and snarled traffic as major East Coast routes washed out or transformed into a soaked labyrinth of detours and closures.



As three days of record-breaking rains tapered to a drizzle, forecasters warned the worst of widespread flooding from Maine to Connecticut was still ahead…

(AP) D.C. police say a fourth person has died after a drive-by shooting in southeast Washington.

Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said early Wednesday the person was among the nine hit Tuesday when a gunman sprayed bullets into a crowd of people.



Officials say three people were arrested and a weapon was recovered after six men and three women were shot around the 4000 block of South Capitol Street southeast.…

My vegan soul dinner with Erykah Badu

The United Nations has put the rebuilding price tag of Haiti at some $11.5 billion, just $2.5 billion less than the Rene Preval administration.

Speaking ahead of tomorrow`s global donor conference for Haiti at the U.N., Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the `smart` rebuilding of Haiti after January`s earthquake will require some $11.5 billion of spending over the next 10 years.

`That is our challenge…

Congratulations to Miss Dominica Marcia Baptiste who was Crowned Miss …

At schools across the island, the videos are causing a stir. The wireless internet is abuzz with footage of school children, some of them under 14 years of age, committing sex acts with multiple partners. Children from two different schools were involved. In one video, a fifth form girl in school uniform is exposed on camera as the hands of unseen persons play with her vagina. In another two videos, one underage girl from a Castries school performs fellatio on a younger…

After years of keeping quiet about his personal life, pop star Ricky Martin has announced that he is gay.

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Ricky said in a message posted on his…

Erykah Badu went for a stripped-down approach for her new “Window Seat” video. Literally: As the standout tune from New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (out tomorrow) plays, Ms. Badu walks through downtown Dallas gradually removing all of her clothing until she is 100 percent nude. If that sounds familiar, Badu credits…

He is known as the "Caribbean's Pablo Escobar" although his nickname in the criminal world is "Junior Capsula". Nevertheless, he is the most wanted man in the Dominican Republic and he is Puerto Rican.



For the past ten years he has managed to evade the police in such incredible ways that his movie-like escapades make him almost legendary.

The hunt for alleged narc boss José Figueroa Agosto has intensified, after a police intervention located a laptop full of…

Check out this article that appeared in today’s Observer. It maad!! Just had to bring it to your attention. After reading it tell us which of the titles you would give Kartel, DJ, porn star, or gangsta!



Kartel: Deejay, gangsta, or porn star?



Deejay Vybz Kartel surely knows how to grab head lines (no pun intended.) He has positioned himself as the top deejay locally and last year released a slew of songs which ensured that he claimed the coveted DJ of the…

The Mavado, Vybz Kartel unity concert scheduled for this weekend in Barbados has been officially cancelled. Prime Minister David Thompson made the announcement at a press conference held yesterday, exactly two days before the event.



Thompson is quoted in the Barbados Advocate as saying: “That quest to do the right thing by Barbadians prompted my request for the meeting with the organisers of the proposed show and I am happy to announce that in deference to the…

The Jamaican government has a hit list of 50 prominent tax evaders, and somehwere on that list is flambouyant, colour-colour hair deejay, Oneil ‘Elephant Man’ Bryan.



The dancehall artiste was scheduled to leave the island on Wednesday but was turned back at the airport by oficials who picked up his name on the Top 50.



Since then, the artiste has resolved his outstanding tax obligations and left the island on Thursday to join the rest of his entourage for a…

Dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel is claiming that he lost his mobile phone, leading to the unauthorised release of pictures with two women performing oral sex on him.

"I lost my BlackBerry, the rest is history," the Portmore Empire-boss told THE WEEKEND STAR…

Gilbert Arenas won't have to serve jail time, a judge ruled Friday.



The Washington Wizards three-time All-Star point guard was sentenced Friday in D.C. Superior Court by Judge Robert E. Morin on one felony count of violating the District of Columbia's strict gun laws

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Arenas must serve 30 days in a halfway house and register as a gun offender.



He was sentenced to two years probation and must donate $5,000 to…

THE tax office says that it has a list of 50 well-known Jamaicans, including entertainers, who are being served with travel bans due to non-payment of taxes.

As part of increased action against delinquent taxpayers beginning April 1, at the start of the new financial year, the office is using the 'stop orders' to to prevent them from travelling outside of Jamaica amongst other measures intended to increase compliance.

"Other…

Jamaican authorities have identified three of the 62 Haitians who reached local shores on Monday as prisoners who escaped when the National Penitentiary in which they were incarcerated collapsed on January 12.

A government source told The Gleaner that the…

The beautiful and talented actress Gabrielle Union was a guest last night (March 24) on Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel.



They talked about her television show "Flash Forward", her relationship with boyfriend Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat and her family life.…