Curtis Jackson

Rochdale Village in South Queens was the place where the guy formerly known as Curtis Jackson started selling crack cocaine, when he was just 12 years old.  It's the place where he got busted as a teenager, before he was sent to a correctional "boot camp"...

NEW YORK (KTLA) -- Rapper and actor 50 Cent is out of the hospital after being hurt in a car accident early Tuesday, his rep said. The 36-year-old's SUV was rear-ended by a big rig on the Long Island Expressway, according to a website associated with...

Rapper 50 Cent suffered neck and back injuries early Tuesday after his vehicle was rear ended by a truck on the Long Island Expressway in Queens. The accident, which was first reported by his own website Thisis50.com, unraveled when a Mack truck...

As he continues honing his chops on the big screen, 50 Cent is adding an adaptation of a Dean Koontz classic to his resume. The rapper, born Curtis Jackson, announced Wednesday that he had signed on to join director Stephen......

Fake Filing in Casey Case," WKMG-Channel 6 headlined its noon story t0day on a bizarre twist in the Casey Anthony case. A Michigan inmate filed a hand-written "motion" suggesting that Anthony wants to drop defense attorney Jose Baez from the case....

For a nothing story, today's development in the Casey Anthony case sure gained a lot of airtime. The stations explored the bogus motion sent by a Michigan inmate suggesting that Anthony wants to drop defense attorney Jose Baez....

A modern day Less Than Zero that's somewhat less than Less Than Zero, Twelve is peek into the drug addled lives of New York's pretty young rich things.  It's like a stylish R-rated pilot for the CW Network, one rejected not just for the explicit sex,...

50 Cent is no longer the future. The commercial rap world that he owned from 2003 to 2007 has shifted from platinum-plated gangsta’ archetypes to sad sack skinny-jeaned emotionalism. Curtis Jackson was the swaggering villain with an impeccable pop...

A Florida woman featured in a homemade sex tape has filed a lawsuit against Queens rapper 50 Cent, claiming he unlawfully distributed the hardcore video on the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator. Lastonia Leviston filed...

In the summer of 1963, Orlando teetered on the edge of racial strife. The demands for integration from the black community were growing louder, more insistent, more impatient. Black teenagers were holding drugstore sit-ins and "wade-ins" at the city's...

*This story first appeared in the Sentinel on Feb. 22, 2009 Whenever Janice Daniels wanted to go out, she would tell her mother she was going to the library. That's where Daniels said she was headed March 9, 1962. But instead of going to the library,...

The self-deprecating tone from once-swaggering acts such as T-Pain and 50 Cent lightens the mood and the music at the annual rap and R & B showcase. Halfway through T-Pain's set at Wednesday's Power 106 Cali Christmas at the Gibson......