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Kool Herc Hospitalized: 5 Facts on a Hip-Hop Founding Father [VIDEO]

By Mary Phillips-SandyJan 31st 2011 – 1:10PM

Pioneering hip-hop artist Kool Herc has been hospitalized because of a serious illness, friends say, and lacks health insurance to cover his medical bills. The 55-year-old Herc (born Clive Campbell) is "very sick," according to Sirius XM's DJ Premier, though specifics about his condition have not been released. On his...

Civilian Deaths Put at 44 in Jamaica Battles

By Terence NeilanMay 26th 2010 – 12:20PM
The Jamaica Gleaner / AP

The Jamaica Gleaner / AP

(May 26) -- The official civilian death toll rose to at least 44 today as Jamaican security forces in Kingston battled gunmen protecting an alleged drug lord sought by the U.S. The Caribbean island's ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair, said the number had been confirmed through independent evaluations, according to various...

Dozens Injured After Plane Overshoots Runway

Dec 23rd 2009 – 6:24AM
Reuters

Reuters

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Dec. 23) -- An American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway in heavy rain, bouncing across the tarmac and injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea, officials and witnesses said. Panicked passengers screamed and baggage burst from...

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Kingston upon Hull ( ), usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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