Month: September 2010

Students, faculty and the community were shocked after learning a star high school football player died Monday morning after using a home exercise machine. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

Leaders of two G7 nations have pledged higher aid for Africa to cut malaria deaths and other major causes of mortality in the continent. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

BET Networks is partnering with “Black Girls Rock!” at the Paradise Theater in New York City next month. The star-studded affair will honor some of the most exceptional women of color in the country on October 16. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

General Mills, the company that makes Cheerios and Pillsbury on Wednesday said first quarter profits rose 12 percent, fueled by continued growth in its established brands. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

For its current newsletter subscribers only, newegg.com offers the Belkin Pivot-Plug Surge Protector, model no. BP112230-08, for $34.99. Apply coupon code “EMCYTZT155″ to cut it to $14.99. With free shipping, that’s $11 under our mention from June and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also a current price low by $16.) It features 8-rotating…

It is television premiere season and Nickelodeon is no exception. The next few weeks will see two new hour-long specials of preschool faves ?Go Diego, Go!? and ?Ni Hao, Kai-Lan? premiering on the top kids network. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Greg Laswell’s Take A Bow MP3 Album and video for $2.99. That’s the lowest price we could find for this 14-track, DRM-free album, released in May. (iTunes charges $9.99.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required. Read the original post by dealmac.com

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion could unveil its new tablet computer, as well as the operating system that will power it, as early as next week at a developers’ conference in San Francisco, people familiar with RIM’s plans said Tuesday. Read the original post by MyFoxAtlanta

A South Carolina school was scheduled to reopen Wednesday, one day after a student shot at a school police officer and bomb units dismantled numerous devices. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of an Atlanta megachurch who has preached against homosexuality, was accused Tuesday by two men from his church of coercing them into masturbation and “oral sexual contact.” Long, who heads the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, is denying the allegations in the lawsuit. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC…

MTV?s ?The Buried Life? will celebrate its second season with a premiere party Wednesday, September 22 at Drai?s in Hollywood. From 7 to 10 pm, ?The Buried Life? cast, as well as other cast members from other MTV shows, will be there. – (AHN) Read the original post by NBC Chicago

Consumers are responding positively to Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, and thus their satisfaction of their PCs has also increased, the most recent edition of the American Customer Satisfaction Index . Read the original post by BetaNews.Com

A Florida man who allegedly attacked another man learned the hard way not that once your victim gets in his car, the tables have turned. – (AHN) Read the original post by The Boston Globe

The iconoclastic pop star appeared in Portland, Maine , on September 20 at a rally held by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in an effort to pressure the state’s two Republican senators to vote to allow for the controversial policy to be repealed, reports the Huffington Post. Read the original post by NBC Miami

A compact LCD TV with local dimming picture enhancements, enchanting Ambilight projections, and plenty more functions. Read the original post by Reg Hardware