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Recording artist Prince performs with singer Mary J. Blige onstage during the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 22, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Prince rocks with new band, turns out 'Screwdriver'

Kurt Schlosser, NBC News
NBC NEWS - Come in out of the 'Purple Rain,' Prince fans. It's time to listen to some new music from the famed rocker...
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Roommate: FAMU hazing victim's last words

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Florida A&M University (FAMU) student Robert Champion died last year on November 19 after a hazing ritual...
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In a Thursday, June 26, 2008 file photo, James Ammons, President of Florida A & M University, announces that the school has had it's accreditation restored by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, in Tallahassee, Fla. Ammons resigned Wednesday, July 11, 2012, the same day parents of a drum major who died after being hazed added the university to a wrongful death lawsuit. Robert Champion died in November 2011, after being beaten by fellow band members during a hazing ritual in Orlando. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)

FAMU still dealing with hazing death fallout

Gary Fineout, Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The fallout from the hazing death of a Florida A&M University drum major appears unlikely to end soon...
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National search for director of troubled FAMU band

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida A&M is looking for a new director of bands.
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Missouri State University chief sorry band played 'Dixie'

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed 'Dixie' at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906...
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Sade rejects offers from Jay-Z and other rappers for collaborations

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Singer Sade rejects offers from Jay-Z and other rappers for collaborations with the fear of them finding her out about...
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27 university band members suspended for violent hazing

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VIDEO - University police say freshman members of the band were assaulted with bats, paddles and wooden beams...
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