Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder pen letters to judge on Lauryn Hill's behalf

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - Grammy Award winning singers Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder penned letters to a New Jersey judge on behalf of fellow Grammy winner Lauryn Hill, who plead guilty to tax evasion...

Lauryn Hill gets 3 months for failing to pay taxes

David Porter, Associated Press

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced Monday to three months in prison and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.

NY judge makes morning-after pill available to all

Larry Neu,eoster amd Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are 'arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable' and must end within 30 days...

Ex-Spice Girl Mel B named new 'America's Got Talent' judge

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC says former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is joining the judges' panel of 'America's Got Talent'...

Nick Minaj blasts Steven Tyler over 'racist' comment

Abdul Sada

theGRIO REPORT - Nicki Minaj has lashed out at former American Idol judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler over remarks he made, which the rapper deemed racially insensitive...

Nicki Minaj: 'I feel like a fish out of water' on 'American Idol'

Chris Witherspoon

theGRIO REPORT - During a recent interview with theGrio’s Nicki Minaj revealed that she does feel like a “fish out of water” as a judge on American Idol, but says that she...

Nevada judge sets May hearing in OJ freedom bid

Ken Ritter, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada judge set the stage Friday for former football star O.J. Simpson to testify for the first time in the Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping case...

Louisiana to have 1st black chief justice

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a racially tinged power struggle inside its own ranks, ruling Tuesday that Bernette Johnson should be the state's first black chief justice....

Montana judge who sent racist Obama email steps down

Matt Volz, Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The chief federal judge for Montana plans to step down from the post and take a reduced caseload next year after forwarding a racist joke involving President Barack Obama...

Mariah Carey: No feuding with Minaj on 'Idol' yet

Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Mariah Carey says there's no feud between her and fellow new "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj at the moment...

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