Rickey Smiley Morning Show
HOUSTON – A charter school teacher is accused of secretly videotaping students while they were using the bathroom. Craig McDonald, a 59-year-old instructor at Raul Yzaguirre School for Success in southwest Houston, was scheduled to be in court Wednesday, according to the Houston Chronicle. Investigators say he put a miniature camera inside a fake smoke […]
DENTON – A Denton woman said a “free massage” left her feeling uncomfortable and ended with her calling the police. The 21-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified, said she regrets opening her door Monday afternoon and allowing a stranger posing as a massage school student inside her home. “I played it in […]
An initiative to encourage healthy teen relationships says songs by Jamie Foxx and Lady Gaga are the musical equivalent of junk food. A teen panel working with the Boston Public Health Commission has determined that their songs are among the top 10 with “unhealthy relationship ingredients.” The commission on Tuesday released its list based on […]
DALLAS – A former Dallas-area priest who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison. Mathew Bagert was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in federal prison without parole by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in Dallas. U.S. Attorney James Jacks of Dallas said in a statement […]
HOUSTON – The Salvation Army defended its practice on Tuesday of requiring at least one social security number for each family registering their children to receive Christmas gifts. Some had seen the practice as a way to check immigration status but the charity said it’s a way to cut down on fraud. “Our work is […]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Two parents face charges after a delivery driver in Brownsville allegedly saw smoke and smelled marijuana as children paid for some pizza. Twenty-nine-year-old Baltazar De La Garza and 25-year-old Desiree Izaguirre were jailed Tuesday on six counts of child endangerment and one count of possession of marijuana. Bail was $330,000 apiece. Electronic […]
Shaquille O’Neal wants to teach his estranged wife Shaunie Nelson a thing or two about getting thrown out. We’ve learned Shaq is trying to boot Shaunie from the entire court system in California. Shaunie filed legal papers in California earlier this month for legal separation, having moved to L.A. just days earlier. We’ve learned Shaq’s […]
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Attorneys for Willis Willis are waiting to sue the Texas Lottery Commission but hope they won’t have to if it gives Willis his million dollars. Willis says his winning ticket was stolen by a clerk at the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie where he bought it. Willis’ lawyers filed papers […]
WEATHERFORD, Texas – A Weatherford couple has been arrested in what investigators are calling a horrible case of child abuse. Police said Leanne Donovan took her 4-month-old daughter to the hospital over the weekend for a rash. Hospital workers called police. The baby reportedly had injuries on her stomach, face, head, back and legs including […]
*In an interview with the Times of London, Janet Jackson is defending President Barack Obama against detractors who believe he hasn’t accomplished anything during his time in office so far. “I think people are giving him really such a hard time,” she said. “Everyone wants everything to turn around immediately. It took us how many […]
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 29-year-old woman told police her boyfriend stabbed her during an argument over where to have Thanksgiving dinner. The woman said she argued with the 41-year-old man at a Corpus Christi apartment on Thursday afternoon. The man stabbed her in the left hand with a steak knife. The couple argued again […]
MURPHY, Texas – One person was found dead inside a house that caught fire Sunday morning in Murphy. The fire was discovered just before 10:30 a.m. in the 200 block of Seleta Drive. When crews arrived they found the house fully involved. Firefighters from Murphy, Plano, Wylie and Sachse worked for nearly an hour to […]
