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ST. LOUIS  – Singer David Peaston, who had a string of R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died, his family said Thursday.

Peaston, 54, died Wednesday of complications from diabetes, his niece, Neuka Mitchell said.

Peaston was born into a St. Louis family with deep musical roots. His mother, gospel singer Martha Bass, was one of the Clara Ward Singers. His older

The first time Bell junior Diana Castillo told her friends she was leaving class a little early for bowling practice, they responded with puzzled looks: What? There’s a bowling team?

“People question if it’s even a sport sometimes,” Castillo said.

For D.C. Public Schools this winter, however, bowling is a varsity sport for the first time — and only for girls. It’s part of an effort by the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association

Today he’s just a D.C. bureaucrat, but come Super Bowl Sunday, David Johnson will be Pizza Hut’s last, best hope to sling pies before kick-off.

The chain held a contest challenging customers to come up with a catchy new jingle. Johnson, 31, a switchboard operator for the Department of Defense, penned a 30-second tune praising the Hut’s delivery time over that of its rivals: “Take it from your boy / if you

A judge ordered that former NBA star Allen Iverson’s (watch his highlights) bank account be garnished in order to pay more than $850,000 to a jeweler (where?). The store initially sued Iverson in 2010 for not paying a $375,000 bill (why was he sued for $2.5M?). After he reportedly did not respond, an order was issued for the store to collect

There was no way Angelo Dundee was going to miss Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday party.

Muhammad Ali certainly was, but so too was the man who trained him. Journey through the career of Angelo Dundee in pictures.

The genial trainer got to see his old friend, and reminisce about good times. It was almost as if they were together in their prime again, and what a time that was.

Dundee died in his

Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show “Soul Train,” is dead at 75 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Sherman Oaks, Calif., home around 4 a.m. He was pronounced dead about an hour later at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to the coroner’s office.

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Top Gospel Albums — Congratulations to James Fortune & FIYA, whose new release Identity, debuts atop the Billboard Top Gospel Charts. The album also enters at #1 on the Independent Charts, #17 on the Digital Albums Charts, and #7 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts, marking the highest chart debut ever for the group. The Joyful Noise Soundtrack moves

MSN sheds some light on which sex is the better motorist — one of the most hotly debated arguments since ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg?’
Famed composer Irving Berlin captured the battle between the sexes quite succinctly in his legendary song “I Can Do Anything Better Than You” from the 1946 Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun.” Gunslingers Annie Oakley (Ethel Merman) and

If you think the price for Obamacare is too high, wait until you see what they want for the “Obamacar.”

A car that once belonged to Barack Obama — a 2005 Chrysler 300C — is now on the auction block, and the minimum bid is $1 million.

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Who knew the President would be a one-man stimulus package for the music industry?

A day after President Obama sang a bit of Al Green’s classic “Let’s Stay Together” from the podium at a January 19th fundraising event in Harlem, videos of the crooner-in-chief went viral on YouTube, racking up millions of views. But it wasn’t just Obama’s version of the song that the web’s music fans sought out: according

INDIANAPOLIS — Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African-American woman to appear with a major U.S. opera company, has died. She was 92.

Williams died Sunday at her home in Bloomington, her attorney, Eric Slotegraaf, said Monday. She died of complications from cancer, said Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where Williams was a professor emeritus of voice.

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Hundreds of D.C. cab owners and drivers packed into a hearing room at the John A. Wilson Building on Monday to show city lawmakers their displeasure with industry reform proposals that they fear would be financially burdensome.

A bill pending in the D.C. Council, introduced by Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) with the backing of Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), mandates numerous requirements aimed at improving the taxi industry, including mandatory

The missing Alexandria activist whose body was recovered from a well in Fort Washington Saturday had been shot to death, authorities said Monday.
Lenwood “Lenny” Harris (Courtesy of Jason Felder) Homicide detectives have not determined exactly when and where Lenwood “Lenny” Harris, 53, was slain, though they believe he was shot and killed soon after he went missing in September, Prince George’s County Police Chief Mark Magaw said at

The Internet can bring you a lot of joy, but it can also turn into a world of pain the moment you make one stupid mistake. Perhaps you’ve been feeding the trolls, using “password” as your password, or selling your soul for access to a “free” Web app. Your dumb mistakes can come back to bite you in the rear if you aren’t careful. Here’s how you can save yourself from

Durham, NC (January 25, 2012) — A group of about two dozen Duke University students urged administrators Tuesday to create a better climate and provide more financial support for black students, saying they’ve been disappointed so far in how top officials have reacted to their viewpoints.

The students, almost all of whom were black, unsuccessfully sought a meeting with university President Richard Brodhead at his campus office