Kobe Bryant says Italy move 'very possible'

Kobe Bryant said it was "very possible" he will play in Italy during the NBA lockout, adding the country is like home because he spent part of his childhood there.

"It's very possible. It would be a dream for me," Bryant said, according to the Gazzetta. "There's an opportunity that we've been discussing over the last few days. It's very possible and that's good news for me."

U.S. to lower size of guaranteed mortgages

Change will result in higher costs and bigger down payments for many home buyers

Uncle Sam is about to take a first tentative step out of the mortgage business by lowering the size of home
loans that the federal government will guarantee, and it's already hitting California neighborhoods with higher costs and bigger down payments.

Listeria outbreak in cantaloupes is deadliest in a decade

Health officials say as many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that 72 illnesses, including 13 deaths, are linked to the tainted fruit. State and local officials say they are investigating three additional deaths that may be connected.

'Significant' pay gap for teachers in black schools

For U.S. schools with a large African-American and Latino population, the teachers are drastically short-changed, according to the latest Department of Education data. Nationwide, the department's Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) shows that these teachers are paid $2,500 less on average.
The analysis, the first of its kind to look at "fiscal equity at the school-to-school spending level" took data from 2,217 school districts that are racially diverse, out of nearly 7,000 U.S. school districts tapped for the survey.

N.J. among states that received shipments of contaminated cantaloupes

New Jersey is among several states that received shipments of whole cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria bacteria that have since caused one of the deadliest outbreaks in a decade, federal officials said.
Of the 72 people reportedly infected with four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monoctyogenes, 13 have died as of earlier this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. None of them were in New Jersey.

LA Church Encourages Black Women To Test For STDs

Gonorrhea and Chlamydia outbreaks have run rampant among the black female community in Los Angeles, reports YourBlackWorld.com

 

Mortgage-Relief Scams Target Blacks, Latinos

Mortgage-relief scams target blacks, Latinos: Since the housing crisis began, nearly half the victims of mortgage loan-modification scams have been of African-American, Latino or Asian descent, according to a May study released by the Homeownership Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit that works with distressed homeowners.

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