L.A. - 911 Call Reveals Jackson's Final Moments Autopsy being conducted today. Cops looking for his personal doctor

By OLSEN EBRIGHT, JONATHAN LLOYD, SCOTT WEBER and HASANI GITTENS

"We have a gentlemen here who needs help and he's not breathing."

The King of Pop was dying, and those were the harried words of a man who called 911 to first reach out for help at 12:11 p.m. Pacific time..

Officials have released the chilling 911 call(.mp3) made before Michael Jackson was rushed to the hospital.

The caller from Michael Jackson's home says he wasn't breathing or responding to efforts to revive him. They reported that Jackson was on a bed, he wasn't breathing and wasn't responding to CPR.

It was unclear who made the call, but the man on the line said that the singer's personal doctor was in the room with him.

"He's pumping. He's pumping his chest, but he's not responding to anything, sir. Please."

An ambulance was sent, but it was ultimately too late. See Full Story!
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L.A. - Michael Jackson Suffers Cardiac Arrest: Michael Jackson is taken to the hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles Times reports.

UPDATE:

L.A . - Pop singer Michael Jackson has died at UCLA Medical Center after arriving to the hospital in a deep coma. Michael Jackson Suffers Cardiac Arrest: Michael Jackson is taken to the hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma," the Los Angeles Times reported, citing city and law enforcement.

"Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier (Thursday) afternoon at his Holmby Hill home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back," TMZ.com reported.

When the story first broke, his management company denied the story. They have yet to release a statement.

The Los Angeles City Fire Department confirmed to NBC News that the department responded to a 911 call from 100 North Carolwood, Jackson's home address, at 12:12 p.m. See Full Story!
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Warrant Service Attempt Leads to Officer Involved Shooting

HARTFORD: On June 23, 2009 at approximately 2:32 p.m., members of the Hartford Fugitive Task Force attempted to serve an arrest warrant at 34 Rose St. A family member of the suspect allowed officers into the apartment. Once inside the apartment, the officers encountered the suspect holding a rifle. One Hartford Police Officer fired one shot striking the suspect in his hand. Medical attention was immediately provided on scene. The injury appears to be nonlife threatening. The suspect was transported to an area hospital. The officer also went to an area hospital as a matter of routine. The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes Division and Crime Scene Division have responded to the scene to conduct an investigation
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Hartford Police and FBI serve warrants around 5:30 am Monday. As an on going investigation into child pornography. Police searched and seized boxes of evidence from 48 Baltic ST., and 181 Coventry ST. No arrest were made.

" We executed 3 search warrants today for an on going investigation. Because its an on going case, we cannot comment further. We cannot confirm the locations for these warrants. Because the case is continuing, said Hartford Police Sergeant Christene Mertes".

Residents were concerned as to what was going on, this early AM do to the massive police presents. Neighbors were told to stay inside their homes, until the area was safe. Not wanting to be ID, One neighbor said "that she has had enough of the crime in the area and wish people would show more respect for the area kids. I don't know those people that live in 48 Baltic. But I don't trust them and they are not very friendly."
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Hartford - (June 10, 2009) - The general consensus is that everything Oprah Winfrey touches turns to gold. So while she certainly lent her name to the musical version of The Color Purple, which opened Tuesday at The Bushnell, her touch may be missing.

To be sure the play, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Alice Walker novel turned Oscar-winning, Steven Spielberg film has major shoes to fill. The story of faith, love and perseverance spans four decades in the life of Celie, who was twice impregnated by her stepfather, beaten by her husband and isolated from her sister and one unconditional love. The depth of her pain and the strength of her resolve are hard to detail, particularly when the characters must break into song every 10 minutes. But it certainly isn’t for lack of trying. See Full Story!
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Manchester, CT - At 59, the Manchester Police Chief and former Hartford Assistant Police Chief will embark on a new chapter in his 35-year law enforcement career when he starts a new job in Kentucky next month. He started his 25-year career in Hartford by patrolled every North End beat while steadily rising through the ranks serving as, among other jobs, Officer Friendly, with the Vice and Narcotics Division, commander of the SWAT team and Bomb squad and an instructor with the Police Academy. After retiring as assistant chief in 2000 he took a job as the first black police chief in Trumbull and followed that job a few year later by becoming the first black police chief in Manchester. Born and raised in North Carolina, Berry was a teenager when he came to Hartford in the late 1960s, packing with him, a dream to someday become a city police chief.

Q. When you first became a Hartford beat patrol cop in the early 1970s there were only a handful of black police officers and no black police chiefs in Connecticut. (Of the half million law-enforcement officers nationwide, about 43,000 are black, more than triple the number in 1973. Berry was the 10th black police chief in Connecticut when he became head of the Manchester Police Department in 2004) How have opportunities improved for African-Americans through the years?

A. I believe the opportunities are better now than ever before. I think we’ve finally been given a chance to lead, almost like a quarterback. Once the door opened, we’ve been able to show them, but it’s like anything else. Someone had to break the barrier.

Q. You were in your early 20s living in the city’s North End with a negative view of police officers when you applied to become a cop. What was the reaction from your black friends and acquaintances? See Full Story!
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MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & FOREIGN TRADE URGES

WEST INDIAN GROUP TO CONTNUE SUPPORTING JAMAICA

Hartford - (April 24, 2009) - Ronald Robinson, a Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Jamaica spoke at the West Indian Social Club of Hartford looking for people to help build the nation while revealing plans to mobilize the Jamaican Diaspora.

“It was very informative. This is the kind of information that helps everyone,” said Andrew Lawrence, president and director of the Caribbean Trade Council, Inc., which invited Robinson along with Consul General to New York, Geneive Brown Metzger, to speak at the Hartford club last week.

More than 150 came out to hear Robinson who spoke on Jamaica’s struggling economy, the creation of programs and efforts to improve issues such as education, healthcare and crime and efforts to mobilize the Jamaican Diaspora, or the dispersion of Jamaican people from their homeland.

Robinson praised the Hartford club for its rich history in providing a haven and for years ago helping the many Caribbean immigrants who came here looking for farm work. The club was founded in 1950 and its charitable foundation was formed by club members in 1978.

Robinson said the Jamaican government officials are determined to combat its economic woes and improve life for its residents. The country recently took a positive step in improving its healthcare system by creating a program that waived partial hospital fees for patients, he said. See Full Story!
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NAACP APPLAUDS HISTORIC SUPREME COURT JUSTICE PICK

CONFIRM SOTOMAYOR BASED ON HER RECORD, NOT PARTISAN POLITICS, SAYS NAACP PRESIDENT

Reasoned and expeditious non-partisan hearings will serve nation best

After leaving the White House announcement Tuesday morning with President Barack Obama, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous applauded the historic nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who would be the first Hispanic, and third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court.

“The nomination of the first Latina to join the Supreme Court is a moment that our nation should celebrate,” Jealous said. “It brings us one step closer to the inclusive democracy that is the hallmark and promise of our great nation. Judge Sotomayor has the judicial track record, the intellectual fortitude, and the life experiences that will serve the Supreme Court and our nation well.”

Said Jealous: “It is our hope that the Senate will not politicize such a crucially important choice, but make its decision expeditiously based on her unimpeachable record as an outstanding prosecutor, litigator, and trial and appellate judge. This is a valuable opportunity to show a reasoned non-partisan dialogue around a decision that brings excellence to our highest Court and will only move our nation forward.” See Full Story!
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Hartford Police Make An Arrest in the Park Street Hit and Run

Hartford – On Friday May 30th, 2008 at approximately 5:45 p.m. Hartford Police officers were responding to an unrelated call for service when they came upon a pedestrian in the area of 33 Park St suffering from life-threatening injuries after being struck by one of two cars traveling west on Park Street in the eastbound lane. The pedestrian, later identified as Angel Torres (78) of Hartford was transported to Hartford Hospital where he was listed in critical condition. A witness reported that the two vehicles involved fled the scene.

Throughout the year, detectives from the Hartford Police Department’s Crime Scene Division with assistance from the Hartford Police Major Crimes Division and the Intelligence Division relentlessly investigated the incident. Mr. Torres remained on life support until his death at Hartford Hospital on Monday, May 11, 2009. The Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner conducted their investigation on Mr. Torres listing the manner of death as accidental and stating the cause of his death was bronchial pneumonia and a cervical spinal cord injury.See Full Story!
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OPRAH WINFREY-PRODUCED THE COLOR PURPLE MUSICAL COMES TO HARTFORD

Talk about a tough act to follow. Trying being actress Lynette DuPree, playing the role of The Color Purple’s, Sofia, a character made famous by Oprah Winfrey, who is now producing the national touring musical. “I don’t think there’s any pressure,” said DuPree, a L.A.-based veteran stage actress known for her work on and Off-Broadway. “Oprah never sang. I’ve been singing for a long, long time.”

DuPree is a cast member of the musical based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Oscar-nominated film by Stephen Spielberg. The musical tells the story of Celie, a poor black girl from Alabama, who survives a life of rape, incest and domestic abuse by persevering with dignity and a trust in God. Sofia has also suffered abuse from the men in her life, but unlike Celie, she is more of a fighter, loudly independent and sharply decisive.

Winfrey originally played the Sofia role in the 1985 film and in 2005 she, Quincy Jones and a group of others brought the musical to Broadway where it received 11 Tony Awards nominations. DuPree doesn’t feel anyone is comparing her acting with Winfrey’s especially since she never sang in the movie. DuPree has earned rave reviews for her singing from critics with one saying her voice brought out “rich emotions.” See Full Story!
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