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With too many students and too few classrooms, school officials in Calexico, Calif., have hired someone to photograph children and document any studying there illegally from across the border.

Uh-Oh, someone must have been high at the factory.
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The stars came out in Las Vegas to watch Jay-Z add yet another feather to his hat. Take a look at some photos from the 40/40 Grand Opening in Las Vegas, Nevada. (more…)

Declares candidacy for Def Jam President/CEO

DJ Premier lists his top 20 albums of 2007, and Brandy gets off the hook.

After all the rumors, Jay-Z's 40/40 Club opens without any problems and celebrates LeBron James' 23rd B-Day in style.

Windy City rapper Rhymefest and associate DJ Mark Ronson recently teamed up to release a Michael Jackson homage mixtape, "Man in the Mirror."

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SOHH.com has learned that West Coast crooner Nate Dogg was recently confined to a hospital bed.

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After it was reported that Jay-Z's Sin City 40/40 club failed to pass inspections, the hot spot opened last night (Dec. 30).

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Artists crank out their best of '07 and forecast the new year.

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Rapper, producer and hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs will take his celebrity to the next level when he is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January.

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*It is 1950, in Harmony, a hardscrabble Alabama town whose name gives no hint that its color-coded caste system relegates blacks to second-class status. But despite the limitations of living under oppressive Jim Crow segregation, Tyrone "Pinetop" Purvis (Danny Glover) has managed to eke out a decent living, at least till now.

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*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that a Web-based party promotions company may be behind the brutal beating of celebrity fitness trainer Darius Miller in Atlanta on Wednesday.

*The New York Times has announced that actress Ruby Dee has been added to the list of guests participating in The New York Times's 2008 Arts & Leisure Week, which will take place from Jan. 7 to 13 in TheTimesCenter.

*With a Grammy nomination and a sudden boost of exposure on urban radio via Kanye West's latest single "Flashing Lights," R&B singer Dwele has enjoyed a breakout 2007 - but he says much more is in store for 2008.

*After his appearance on the Fox Business Channel Friday, boxer Roy Jones Jr. headed over to the Madison Square Garden Training Center in Westchester to join the New York Knicks during their practice.

*Christmas Day became an unexpected surprise for Lil' Wayne fans. Without fanfarem the Cash Money/Universal artist slipped out a five-song digital EP on Dec. 25 dubbed "The Leak."

*Public Enemy rapper Chuck D is already throwing his hat into the ring at Def Jam to succeed Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter as president.

*Gossip blogger Perez Hilton cites a source who claims the planned New Year's Eve launch of Jay-Z's 40/40 club in Las Vegas is in jeopardy tonight because the venue has failed a health and safety inspection.

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*The red tape that has snarled James Brown's estate gets even thicker this week as five of the entertainer's children are challenging the will, which leaves most of the late singer's money to trusts set up to educate Brown's grandchildren and needy kids.

*In a recent interview about the 2008 Presidential race Chris Rock told the New York Times that a Hillary Clinton White House wouldn't be that much different than the administration currently occupying the Pennsylvania Ave. location.

*Big League Productions, the company that books Broadway musicals for touring throughout the world, is launching a traveling revival of the Tony-winning revue "Ain't Misbehavin" with headliners Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis, reports Playbill News.

*Rapper Yung Joc has released a statement addressing the fallout over his tardy court appearance on gun charges last week in Cleveland.