Beyond The Radio with MMR : 2016-01-10

Friday, January 15, 2016

MMR entertainment news update: Actress Tichina Arnold makes her husbands cheating sex tap public

Martin star Tichina Arnold reportedly exposed her husband Rico Hines by sending out a mass text containing incriminating video footage (pictured in 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky)

Martin star Tichina Arnold exposed her cheating husband by sending out a mass text containing incriminating video footage, according to a report.The '90s sitcom favourite revealed her intention to divorce husband of three years Rico Hines by sending her friends a mass text, a source told TMZ. Contained within her missive was a sex tape showing Rico with another woman, the insider claims.

According to the website, she sent the video along with a message declaring the end of her three year marriage.

'It's over between Rico and I,' she wrote. 'This is where I part ways and all bets are off.'

She went on to claim that her husband had slept with dozens of women outside of their marriage, and was not always careful to use protection.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

MMR on News in your area: Man accused of attempting rap to an 11 year old

An 11-year-old girl was allegedly grabbed by a man who attempted to sexually assault her while she walked home from school in the Bronx.

Police say the girl was leaving school on Fox Street when an unknown man grabbed her by the neck and tried to press up against her with his exposed private parts.

MMR ON POWERBALL: DID YOU WIN?

The winning tickets were sold in Chino Hills, California; Munford, Tennessee; and in Melbourne Beach, Florida, according to state lottery officials.The winning numbers were 08, 27, 34, 04 and 19, and the Powerball was 10.

The odds of winning the record jackpot were 1 in 292 million.

Balbir Atwal, owner of the 7-Eleven franchise in Chino Hills that sold one winning ticket, said it was "very exciting."

"I didn't expect this big crowd but my Chino Hills customers love me, and I love them," he said. Atwal, who has owned the store for 24 years, will receive a $1 million bonus for selling the winning ticket.

The winning ticket in Florida was sold at a Publix Supermarket.

Leading into Wednesday, there had been 19 consecutive Powerball drawings with no winner. As ticket sales soared, so did the jackpot's value. Two weeks ago the grand prize was a mere $400 million.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

MMR on News in your area

A man was rushed to the hospital after being stabbed in Crotona Park, according to police. (January 13, 2016 9:16 AM)

A man was rushed to the hospital after being stabbed in Crotona Park, according to police.

It happened on Bristow Street around 8 p.m. Tuesday.

They say he was taken to Lincoln Hospital and is expected to be OK....

MMR on news in your area

Officials say the fire started inside the Anny Deli and Grocery below a six-story apartment building on 2075 Grand Concourse around 5:45 a.m. They say the fire quickly spread to the top floors of the building as residents were rushed to stairwells and evacuated.

Dozens of people were evacuated after a three-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx Tuesday. Officials say the fire started inside the Anny Deli and Grocery below a six-story apartment building on 2075 Grand Concourse around 5:45 a.m. They say the fire quickly spread to the top floors of the building as residents were rushed to stairwells and evacuated.

Read More: http://bronx.news12.com/news/firefighters-battle-3-alarm-fire-on-grand-concourse-1.11316657

Monday, January 11, 2016

MMR on Entertainment News: Singer With The Whispers, Dies at Age 71

Nicholas Caldwell, Singer With The Whispers, Dies at Age 71

Nicholas Caldwell, co-founder and singer with the California R&B group The Whispers, has died. He was 71. Willette Ballard, a representative for the group, said Caldwell died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his San Francisco home. Formed in the San Francisco Bay area in 1963, Caldwell was an original member of the group that included brothers Walter and Wallace Scott, Marcus Hutson and Gordy Harmon. Their first top 10 R&B hit was in 1970 with “Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong.” Their first album to go platinum was “The Whispers” in 1980. It included the disco hit, “And The Beat Goes On.”Caldwell also penned some of their songs, including the fan favorite “Lady.”The group also had an R&B and pop hit “Rock Steady” with Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds

MMR ENT News Update on Bill Cosby

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday that Bill Cosby will not be charged in the two cases being investigated by the office. The announcement comes a week after Cosby was brought up on felony assault charges in Pennsylvania for a 2004 incident.

In Pennsylvania, the 12-year statute of limitations allowed for Cosby to be charged almost exactly 12 years later. But in California, the statute for non-aggravated rape (rape without the use of a weapon) is six years. Prosecutors reviewing the case believe the neither Jane Doe 1 nor Jane Doe 2's allegations transpired during that window of time, according to CNN.

Jane Doe 2, revealed by her lawyer to be model Chloe Goins, alleged Cosby drugged and assaulted her in the Playboy Mansion in August 2008. Jane Doe 1 remains anonymous, but her attorney, Gloria Allred, said her client is "very disappointed" by the decision not to charge Cosby, who she says raped her client in 1965 when the client was 17 years old. "It is very difficult for a person who alleges that she is a victim to understand that there are arbitrary time periods set by law and that if allegations are not reported within that time period that it will be too late for a prosecutor to pursue them," Allred told CNN.

But the battle isn't over. Cosby's preliminary hearing in Pennsylvania is on Jan. 14.

MMR on entertainment News: Janet Jackson says she denies cancer

Janet Jackson said she doesn’t have cancer, but she isn’t specifying the illness that interfered with a concert tour.

On her Twitter account Wednesday, Jackson posted a two-minute clip from her song “The Great Forever,” followed by a personal message in which she said she’s recovering but offered no further details. She said her doctors have approved her concerts as scheduled in Europe.

“The rumors are untrue. I do not have cancer. I’m recovering,” she posted, an apparent response to online reports that she was suffering from throat cancer.

Her announcement came less than two weeks after Jackson said she was postponing her “Unbreakable” tour to have an unspecified surgical procedure. Jackson had been next scheduled to perform Saturday in Denver. She’s scheduled to perform in Europe in March.

Her “Unbreakable” tour has been in the Top 20 global concert tour listing compiled by Pollstar.

Jackson is a member of one of pop music’s royal families, sister of the late Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five. Her 1986 album “Control” made her a music star in her own right, a disc that spawned hits like “What Have You Done For Me Lately” and “Nasty.”

The singer built a steadily successful career with hits like “If,” “All For You” and “That’s the Way Love Goes.” Last year she released the album “Unbreakable,” her first new disc since 2008.

She was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year for the first time, but she was not elected.

MMR on News in your area: 5 teens rape a woman in a NYC park

Two people have been taken into police custody in connection with an alleged group rape of an 18-year-old woman at a Brooklyn playground.

A police spokesman said Sunday night the two "voluntarily came into the precinct." He gave no other details.Authorities say the woman was accosted just after 9 p.m. Thursday as she and her father walked inside Osborn Playground.

Police say there were five men, and one pointed a gun at the father and told him to leave.

Authorities say each man raped the woman. The father returned with two police officers, but the attackers had fled.

The woman was treated at Kings County Hospital and released.

Police have released surveillance video that they say shows the men in a bodega before the rape.

MMR on Entertainment News: David Bowie dies at 69 of Cancer

Tributes have been paid from around the world to the "extraordinary artist" whose last album was released days ago.

His son, film director Duncan Jones, confirmed the news and a statement was issued on his social media accounts.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer," it said, asking for privacy for the family.His son, who directed Bafta-winning film Moon, wrote on Twitter: "Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all."

Bowie's hits include Let's Dance, Changes, Space Oddity, Starman, Modern Love, Heroes, Under Pressure, Rebel Rebel and Life on Mars.

He was also well known for creating his flamboyant alter ego Ziggy Stardust.

The singer, who had been living in New York in recent years, only released his latest album Blackstar on his birthday on Friday.

The album, which includes just seven songs, has been well received by critics and was intended as a "parting gift" to the world, according to long-time friend and producer Tony Visconti.

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