Lacey Holsworth met Michigan State player Adreian Payne while she was in the hospital, and the two became fast friends. Lacey Holsworth would attend all the games, cheering on Payne and the other members of the team. All would come to “adopt” her as their sister. On senior night, the 6-foot-10-inch center found the 8-year-old,…

An 11-year-old whose family was upset with his alleged thuggish behavior and possible gang involvement decided to teach him a lesson that included a videotaped whipping that was posted on Facebook. That lesson has led to three people being charged with assault, CBS Detroit reports.  Demitria Latrion Powell, the child’s 28-year-old mother, Uteas Michelle Taylor,…

The New York Jets are realizing that their newly acquired quarterback comes with more baggage than they may have bargained for. With training camps not even under way, students at SUNY Cortland’s campus, where the Jets hold practice, don’t want Michael Vick there and have started a petition to get him banned. The petition, which…

Derrick Gordon, a sophomore guard for the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball team, decided that he had carried his secret too long, so after speaking with his family, coaches and teammates privately, he told ESPN on Wednesday that he is gay. “I just didn’t want to hide anymore, in any way,” Gordon told ESPN. “I didn’t want…

Looks like 50 Cent is going to have to fork over $16 million. That’s because the rapper turned mogul was supposed to produce a line of headphones with Sleek Audio but reportedly snagged design secrets from the Florida company and used them to create his own headphones, the Miami Herald reports. According to a recently…

General Motors is investing $449 million in two Detroit-area factories that will build the next generation of the Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric car, the Associated Press reports. GM would not say how many jobs would be added, but the cash infusion will eventually create a second shift at the Detroit assembly plant that makes the…

Al Sharpton has been called many names. Add CI-7 to that list. According to a lengthy report published by the Smoking Gun news website, Sharpton was a confidential FBI informant—code named CI-7—for several years in the mid-1980s. On Monday, the Smoking Gun published documents that purport to show that the current host of PoliticsNation on…

Thanks to Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, looks like selfies with the president may be shut down for good. During the Red Sox’s official visit to the White House the designated hitter took what appeared to be an impromptu photo with the POTUS holding up an Obama baseball jersey. Turns out that Big Papi…