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Teddy Pendergrass has died at the age of 59 following "a difficult
recovery" from colon cancer surgery.

Teddy Pendergrass II said his father had died at a hospital in Philadelphia.

He was paralysed from the waist down in a 1982 car accident. In 2001,
he went on his first tour since the accident.

Pendergrass enjoyed early success with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes,
whose hits included If You Don't Know Me By Now, before going solo in 1976.

He was the first black male singer to record five consecutive multi-platinum
albums in the US...

Wyclef Jean's Yéle Haiti charity where you can text YELE to 501501 to
give $5 to help with earthquake relief efforts.

The US State Department seems to favor the Red Cross, where you can
text "HAITI" to "90999" to donate $10 to the Red Cross.

In Canada, people can donate $5 to the Salvation Army by texting "Haiti"
to 45678 through a system set up by the Mobile Giving Foundation.

Digicel Relief Fund -text “Help” to 4442452 - cost JMD$25

The donations are added to your cellphone bill.

ReggaeMe - Jamaica (AP) — Authorities in Jamaica have arrested two
men and a woman they say helped smuggle 12 high-powered weapons
and 700 rounds of ammunition from New York.

Police Inspector Jubert Llewellyn says the items arrived inside an air
compressor tank. He says a telescopic lens and 28 magazines were also
among the items seized at a warehouse Monday.

The guns - A .44 Magnum pistol, two AK 47 assault rifles, two 9mm
Desert Eagle pistols, a Mack 11 submachine gun, a Glock 27 pistol, 9mm
Smith and Wesson pistol, a 9mm Taurus pistol, a Luger P95...

Haitians are lining bodies along the streets of Port-au-Prince, where
thousands are feared dead after a massive earthquake destroyed
much of the capital.

The 7.0 magnitude quake that struck Tuesday was the most powerful
to hit the Caribbean nation in 200 years.

The temblor collapsed the presidential palace, ministries, homes, schools,
monuments and the city's largest hospital.

The International Red Cross says up to 3 million people have been affected.


What caused the earthquake?

The Haiti earthquake occurred at a fault...

A powerful earthquake of 7.0 magnitude rocked Haiti just before
5 p.m. Eastern time, 10 miles southwest from the highly populated
capital of Port-au-Prince.

There were two aftershocks — of 5.5 and 5.9 magnitude — that
followed in the last hour, and more are expected to happen.

The city has about 2 million people, according to National Geographic.
According to several news reports, a large hospital in the capital had
collapsed, and people were screaming in streets full of rubble.

Haiti, by far the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, has been...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, January 11, 2010 - A Jamaican man
who created a bomb scare in New Zealand's capital last month is now
being accused of attempted robbery and threatening to kill a bank
employee and her family.

Paul Martin Williams was previously accused of threatening to do an act
likely to cause major property damage, "namely to blow up the bank" on
December 9th. Now he has been slapped with three additional counts - two
separate charges of threatening to kill a bank employee and her family by
letter, and a charge of using a threat to demand...

The real question of curiosity is why Reggae Superstar
Barrington Levy is being persecuted when there is a dangerous
pedophile on the loose! Samara Cunningham (34) aka ‘Russian’
an employee of Mr. Levy allegedly violated his daughter who is
a minor.

The legendary singer was called to the police station on January
7th to be questioned. It is said that the singer’s minor daughter
invited Cunningham to their residence while she was alone with
a younger relative.

According to an unnamed source, Mr. Levy’s fourteen year old
daughter sent her younger...

ReggaeMe, USA (AP) - Mariah Carey jokingly blames her loony
acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film
Festival awards on director Lee Daniels.

"The thing is me and Lee hadn't seen each other in a long time,
and then he was presenting my award, so he starts off immediately
with inside jokes," Carey said backstage at the People's Choice Awards
Wednesday night, where she was named favourite R&B artiste.

"We had splashes of champagne, and I love Lee but he's a bad influence,"
the singer said and laughed.

Carey gave a long, rambling...

ReggaeMe (AP) - A record number of people were killed in Jamaica
last year, solidifying the island's reputation as having one of the world's
highest murder rates.

Police said the majority of the 1,680 killings - six more than the
previous record set in 2005 - involved victims of drug and extortion
gangs and occurred far from the island's trendy tourist spots, and
most were shootings.

The announcement comes as Jamaica prepares for the arrival of a
radical Muslim cleric who served time in a British prison for urging the
killing of Americans, Hindus...

Buju Banton will be held without bail on drug charges while his
lawyer fights to remove a detainer placed on his client by immigration
officials.

Buju Banton who is 36 years old, pleaded not guilty this afternoon
to federal charges that he conspired to buy cocaine from an undercover
law enforcement officer in Sarasota last month.

U.S. Magistrate Anthony Porcelli ordered the singer held without bail
after defense attorney David Oscar Markus said he would not oppose
the government's request that Banton be detained.

David Markus Buju Banton defense...

On the golf course, Tiger Woods is right-handed. But off the course,
he swings both ways - at least according to one of his alleged mistresses.

RadarOnline.com reports that Italian model Loredana Jolie Ferriolo, who is
attempting to sell a tell-all book on her alleged trysts with the pro golf
star, claims to have witnessed Woods participating in gay encounters.

Ferriolo told the Web site that the book would dish details on the
golfer's "healthy appetite for arranged sex, threesomes, girls next door,
girl-girl, and an answer to all the rumors surrounding...

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a
Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer,
songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands
The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981).
Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae
music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the
Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

VH1 Behind The Music - Legend (pt. 1 of 6)
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ReggaeMe - What are the chances of a born and bred Midwestern
female from a midwestern family becoming a reggae dancehall deejay?
Pretty slim! But the story of Zerby is nothing short of sensational. With
a lot of guts, determination and talent, she defied the odds and has
proven that she can DJ just as well as a Jamaican yardie.

After nine months in the studio and as a follow up to her first CD, Zerby
shows off her musical wares with her latest CD release "Ready Now"
released on her own moniker Hotness Records January 12, 2010.
An eclectic...

ReggaeMe - Amsterdam - Dutch authorities have seized 24-hundred
pounds of cocaine from a Jamaican cargo ship. They say the drug,
which has a street value of more than 43-million dollars, was hidden
among containers of whiskey on the ship.

A special law enforcement team found the container last week in the
port of Rotterdam and arrested five men in Amsterdam where it was
delivered. The cocaine has been destroyed.

Jamaica is on a U.S. list of 20 countries identified as major production
or distribution centers for illegal drugs. The Justice Department...