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Oyeah , who has posted quite a few rap videos on iReport ended up seeing a little ghost like this in a local drug store and was inspired.

Who else is absolutely sickened by the news continuing to come out of Richmond? And for me, as a parent of a high school student, it is not just the horrific nature of the crime, and the bystanders who did nothing.... it is the school that is worrying me too.

Below is video from CNN on a friend of the 15-year-old Richmond, California rape victim who spoke out at a public hearing on Wednesday, October 28.

The cuddly, sweater-clad sitcom king is releasing a hip-hop concept album with a social conscience.

" CNN: Why was blues not regarded as something of value in this country? MARSALIS: It came from who we didn't like.

Father Richard Heene: "This is a relief, we're going to watch him a lot closer" The father of a boy thought to have been carried away by a helium balloon before being found at home has repeated denials that the incident was a hoax.

Rock bands, including REM and Pearl Jam, want to know whether their music was played at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

There is a new saying "Don't cry lost in a helium balloon." A six year old boy who was thought to be in a homemade mylar spaceship has been found hiding in the attic because his Dad yelled at him.

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Andrew Ryan Last updated on Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 3:57AM EDT j aryan@globeandmail.com The funny thing about war, they say, is how quickly people forget about the big ones.

It started with a helium aircraftA hovering over Fort Collins, Colorado and the belief that aA 6-year-old boy climbed in and floated away Thursday, October 15, forcing officials to come up with a rescue plan to save him.

Home : Top Stories : Morning after: Balloon boy gets sick twice on TV Morning after: Balloon boy gets sick twice on TV Viewer CTV News Video Questions continue to grow about 'balloon boy' and whether the entire episode was a publicity stunt, given the Heene family's time in the spotlight.

While Twitter took off with stories of the fabled balloon boy , a six-year-old whom the world thought might have taken off up in the air, some other things were happening online, if not discernibly balloon-centric things.

In this image rendered from video and released by KMGH-TV in Denver, a balloon is seen moments after landing in Colorado, near Fort Collins Thursday, Oct.

Balloon Boy's 'flight' grips viewers across the globe Six-year-old Falcon Heene smiles as he is surrounded by reporters on the lawn of his house in Fort Collins, Colo., on Oct.

A few followup items on the fabricated Rush Limbaugh quotes story. * Erick looks at the unsavory rap sheet of CNN's Rick Sanchez, one of the network reporters pushing the made-up quotes .

Thirty years on from Rapper's Delight, by the Sugarhill Gang, becoming the first mainstream rap song to hit the US charts, how and why has hip-hop spread to different parts of the world? Public Enemy rapper Chuck D famously once said rap was "CNN for black people". In the years following its emergence in 1970s New York, hip-hop culture has ...

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