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Verdict a balm to Sparkle Rai’s grieving dad
Prosecutors said Chiman Rai had son’s wife killed because she was blackBy STEVE VISSER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/26/08

Bennet Reid dabbed his eyes when jurors announced Thursday they had convicted Chiman Rai of having Reid’s daughter murdered eight years ago because she had married Rai’s son.

The 68-year-old Rai couldn’t stomach having Sparkle Rai as a daughter-in-law because she was black, prosecutors contended.

have happened,” said Reid, who once thought the case would never be solved. “My daughter finally got her voice.”

The jury — which convicted Rai in six hours — will return Friday to decide whether to sentence him to death.

For years, Reid said, he had no idea who stabbed and strangled his daughter in her Union City apartment while her 7-month-old daughter cried in another room.

He never suspected her in-laws and he had no idea why she had been killed a month after marrying Rajeeve “Ricky” Rai.

The case broke in 2006 when Clinique Jackson was arrested on unrelated charges and offered to help police solve a killing she witnessed as a teenager. She said she and a friend watched Cleveland Clark, now 51, strangle Sparkle and then stab her. Investigators soon tied Clark to Willie Fred Evans and later Herbert Green in Mississippi, where the wealthy Chiman Rai ran a neighborhood grocery. Continue Reading »

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey is still the queen of all media, but her crown is beginning to look a bit tarnished.The average audience for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” has fallen nearly 7 percent this year, according to Nielsen Media Research — its third straight year of decline. “Oprah’s Big Give,” an ABC philanthropic reality show, beat every program on television except “American Idol” in its premiere week this winter, but steadily lost nearly one-third of its audience during the rest of its eight-week run, according to Nielsen.

The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and the magazine is now seeking a new editor in chief after the announced retirement of its longtime steward, Amy Gross. Continue Reading »

Cops seek suspects, woman clings to life after Orlando shooting…

 Mildred Beaubrun and two girlfriends had just ended a night of partying at Club Firestone early Monday when they stopped at a 7-Eleven on Colonial Drive for some gas and something to drink.

Three or four men in a silver or gray Chevrolet HHR also stopped at the store and followed the young women when they pulled away in a dark-blue Nissan Maxima about 3 a.m.

“Hey, baby, what’s your phone number?” they called out as the cars traveled west through Orlando.

Then the banter grew more aggressive. The men threw a T-shirt, then an AA battery, at the Nissan. One of the women threw a broken cell-phone charger back. At one point, the HHR swerved into the Nissan’s lane and tried to run the car off the road.

Suspects:

When the Nissan turned north on John Young Parkway, the HHR followed. Then, at Princeton Street, a shot rang out. Shrapnel flew as the bullet pierced the door and struck 18-year-old Beaubrun, who was sitting in the back seat.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When you call 911 you hope you’re talking to someone who cares about what happens to you, but an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation uncovered a shocking 911 emergency where the exact opposite happened.

What makes this investigation especially shocking is what one call taker said about the woman he was supposed to be helping.

NewsChannel 5’s chief investigative reporter Phil Williams said 911 workers across the Midstate do a heroic job every day under incredibly stressful conditions, but when a Nashville woman faced a violent domestic situation back in February the system failed.

“I’m like looking out the window for him, and I don’t see him,” Sheila Jones recalled.

Her call for help began when an angry ex-boyfriend barged into her house.

Sheila’s first call was recorded at Metro Nashville’s 911 Center at 2:08 p.m.

Sheila to 911: “Get the police here now. My life is threatened. Please God. Please God. Please God. Get me police over now. He’s got a knife on me. My life threatened.”

“I felt danger, I felt threatened, and I felt fear.  It was like I was seeing myself being dead that day,” Sheila recalled.

“And you wanted help?” Phil asked.

“I wanted help,” she answered.

For Sheila, hearing that call - obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates - resurrected the painful emotions of that day.

Sheila: “Get out of my house.”
911: “Is he a boyfriend?”
Sheila: “He’s ex. Get out of my house. He’s outside now. He just went outside.”

“You’re emotional, you’re desperate and you call for help. Then what happened?” asked Phil. Continue Reading »

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “ER” is adding star power for its final season. Angela Bassett will join the cast of the medical drama as a regular in the fall, the first full-time series gig for the Oscar-nominated star of “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”

Bassett will play a troubled physician who’s coming back to Chicago after a few years in Indonesia doing tsunami relief. Her arrival in the second episode promises to shake County General’s ER to the core. Continue Reading »

Katy Bachman
APRIL 21, 2008 -

Two Time Warner divisions, Time Inc.’s Essence Communications and Warner Bros. Television Group, are working together to turn Essence magazine into a multiplatform brand, the companies announced Monday, April 21. The venture’s first project will be the late summer-relaunch of Essence.com, which will serve as a launching pad for new TV and Internet programming reaching an under-served 18- to 49-year-old black female audience.

“Survey after survey has shown there isn’t enough content reaching African-American women,” said Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications. “African-American women say they are looking for more content reflecting their voice and lifestyle. This partnership gives us the opportunity.”

The expanded and multi-tiered Essence.com will contain a mix of exclusive and original daily content, more video, plus interactive social networking and interactive features targeting 18-49 year-old Black women. Continue Reading »