ELECTION 08 :: OBAMA VS. MCCAIN PART TWO

"HE'S 72" - P. DIDDY

BECAUSE OF OBAMA I GOT SUSPENDED?

PALIN VS. BIDEN [VICE PRESIDENT DEBATE]

JUST IN CASE YOU HAVENT SEEN IT.
COURTESY OF WORLD STAR HIP-HOP

MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO STABBING FATHER

EARLIER THIS WEEK IN HOWARD COUNTY, TWENTY-TWO YEAR OLD TIMOTHY CAVENDER HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO ASSAULT AFTER ADMITTING TO POLICE THAT HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR STABBING HIS FATHER IN THE NECK.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THE MEN WERE ARGUING AND WHEN HIS FATHER TRIED TO PUNCH HIM, CAVENDER STABBED HIM. OFFICERS THAT RESPONDED TO THE SCENE REPORTED THAT CAVENDER ANSWERED THE APARTMENT DOOR COVERED IN BLOOD WITH A KNIFE STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET.

CAVENDER, A HOWARD COUNTY RESIDENT, COULD FACE 25 YEARS IN PRISON AT HIS SENTENCING IN DECEMBER. PROSECUTORS DROPPED THE ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CHARGE AS PART OF CAVENDER'S PLEA AGREEMENT. THEY ARE ALSO RECOMMENDING ONLY AN EIGHT YEAR SENTENCE. 

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

CHILDREN'S FROZEN REMAINS RECOVERD BY CALVERT COUNTY POLICE

ON SATURDAY, CALVERT COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES DISCOVERED THE BODIES OF TWO SMALL CHILDREN AT A HOME LOCATED IN LUSBY, MARYLAND, INSIDE A STANDALONE FREEZER.

THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN CALLED OUT TO THE HOME TO INVESTIGATE THE REPORT OF AN INJURED CHILD. INITIAL REPORTS INDICATE THAT THE POLICE ARRESTED A WOMAN WHO HAD TOLD THEM THE CHILDREN WERE HER ADOPTED DAUGHTERS AND THEIR REMAINS HAD BEEN FROZEN SINCE AT LEAST FEBRUARY.

THE ARRESTED WOMAN, 43- YEAR- OLD RENEE BOWMAN, HAS ALLEGEDLY ALSO TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT SHE HAD BEATEN THE THIRD ADOPTED CHILD. THAT CHILD WAS A 7 -YEAR OLD GIRL THAT CALVERT COUNTY POLICE HAD BEEN CALLED OUT TO HELP, AND FOUND SATURDAY AFTER SHE HAD ESCAPED FROM A LOCKED BEDROOM AND JUMPED OUT THE WINDOW.

ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITIES, THE TWO DEAD CHILDREN'S REMAINS WERE ENCLOSED IN A BLOCK OF ICE. AUTOPSIES WILL NOT BE PERFORMED UNTIL THE ICE MELTS.

AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THE CHILDREN DIED IN ROCKVILLE, DUE TO BOWMAN TELLING THEM SHE MOVED FROM ROCKVILLE TO CALVERT COUNTY IN FEBRUARY, AND BROUGHT THE GIRL'S REMAINS WITH HER. THE SEVEN YEAR OLD WAS WOUNDED WHEN DISCOVERED BY POLICE SATURDAY AND TAKEN TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. THE TWO CASES ARE STILL UNDERGOING INVESTIGATION.

BOWMAN HAS SO FAR BEEN CHARGED WITH CHILD ABUSE.

Source: The Washington Post

SHOTS FIRED IN ADAMS MORGAN RESTAURANT, ONE DIES

AROUND 11 P.M. LAST NIGHT, TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT INSIDE MESKEREM ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT, IN THE 2400 BLOCK OF 18TH STREET, N.W.

ACCORDING TO AUTORITIES THE INCIDENT WAS ALARMING BECAUSE THIS BLOCK IS AT THE HEART OF ONE OF THE CITY'S MAJOR DINING AND ENTERTAINMENT AREAS - ADAMS MORGAN. THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE AFTER AN ARGUMENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE RESTAURANT. INITIAL POLICE ACCOUNTS SAY THAT ONE OF THE TWO MEN INVOLVED SHOT THE OTHER, AND THEN TURNED THE GUN ON HIMSELF.

THE ALLEGED SHOOTER WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AROUND 11:38 P.M. AT WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER. THE OTHER MAN WAS ALSO TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL CENTER, BUT HIS CONDITION HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED. HOWEVER, AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT HE WAS STILL BREATHING.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

MD MEDEVAC HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS FOUR, INJURES ONE

EARLY THIS MORNING, FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN A MARYLAND STATE POLICE MEDICAL EVACUATION HELICOPTER CRASHED IN WALKER MILL PARK, LOCATED NEAR CAPITOL HEIGHTS.

PRIMARY INVESTIGATIONS INDICATE THAT THE CRASH OCCURED DUE TO THE HELICOPTER ENCOUNTERING BAD WEATHER, ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES. BEFORE THE CRASH, THE UNIT WAS IN THE PROCESS OF TRANSPORTING TWO FEMALE PATIENTS IN A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT TO PG HOSPITAL.

THE DECEASED HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS STEPHEN J. BUNKER, 59, THE PILOT; MICKEY C. LIPPY, 34, THE FLIGHT PARAMEDIC AND STATE TROOPER, TONYA MALLARD, 39, AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN FROM RESCUE SQUAD STATION 12 IN WALDORF; AND ASHLEY YOUNGER, 17, ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN THE VEHICLE CRASH.

THE OTHER VICTIM, JORDAN WELLS, 18, IS THE ONLY SURVIVOR WHO IS NOW IN CRITICAL CONDITION. AUTHORITIES ARE CALLING THE CRASH THE DEADLIEST IN THE 47- YEAR HISTORY OF THE MARYLAND STATE POLICE AVIATION UNIT.

THE TEENS WERE INVOLVED IN A CAR ACCIDENT THAT OCCURED AROUND 10:45 P.M. LAST NIGHT AT SMALLWOOD DRIVE NEAR NEW FOREST COURT IN WALDORF, MARYLAND.

AUTHORITIES REPORT THAT TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS LOST RADIO CONTACT WITH THE HELICOPTER AROUND 12:30 A.M. THE CRASH SITE WAS NOT SPOTTED UNTIL 2 A.M. BY AN OFFICER DEEP INSIDE THE 470-ACRE WALKER MILL REGIONAL PARK.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW VIDEO :: OBAMA VS. MCCAIN DEBATE

JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T CATCH THE DEBATE, WHICH I'M SURE A LOT OF YOU DID. CONSIDERING SOMEONE DECIDED TO TELEVISE A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON A FRIDAY NIGHT! PROBABLY CAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO CATCH IT...JUST A THOUGHT, DON'T QUOTE ME!

CHRIS ROCK :: WHY SHOULD WE VOTE OR OBAMA

MY DUDE CHRIS ROCK IS GOING OFF OVER THE AIRWAYS. GOING ON EVERYBODY FROM BILL CLINTON, TO TERRANCE, TO SARAH PALIN, BACK TO LARRY KING. BUT ALWAYS COMING WITH TRUTH OR REASONING. TERRANCE IS THE LIGHT SKIN TALKATIVE DUDE FROM 106 & PARK BY THE WAY.

CHRIS ALSO RETURNS TO HBO, TONIGHT AT 9PM. KILL THE MESSENGER!

FENTY OPENS OBAMA D.C. CAMPAIGN OFFICE

ON YESTERDAY, MAYOR ADRIAN FENTY, ALONG WITH OTHER CITY LEADERS, OPENED CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS FOR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA.

FENTY HELPED TO HYPE UP THE CROWD OF SEVERAL HUNDRED OBAMA SUPPORTERS BY ASKING "ARE WE FIRED UP?" AND LEADING CHANTS OF "OBAMA!" AT THE OPENING WAS ALSO COUNCIL MEMBERS, KWAME BROWN AND MURIEL BOWSER. THE NEW OFFICE IS LOCATED IN A ROW HOUSE ON FLORIDA AVENUE IN NW, WASHINGTON.

OBAMA IS EXPECTED TO OVERWHELMINGLY WIN D.C. IN NOVEMBER'S ELECTION. SUPPORTERS ALSO PLAN TO SPEND TIME CAMPAIGNING IN VIRGINIA. FENTY HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SUPPORTER OF OBAMA.



SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS