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Flex Alexander Net Worth

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From 2000 to 2001, Alexander appeared as Maya Wilkes' husband Darnell during the first season of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends. He left Girlfriends to star as single father Mark "Flex" Washington on the UPN sitcom One on One, a series he created and produced. For his role on the series, Alexander was nominated for three NAACP Image Awards and two BET Comedy Awards. In 2004, he portrayed Michael Jackson in the VH1 television biopic Man In The Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story, which garnered him another NAACP Image Award nomination. Read More...

Next to the Rose Bowl? A 36-hole parking lot.

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PASADENA, Calif. — On the night of Jan. 1, 2013, hours after the close of another daydreamy Rose Bowl, a visitor lumbered across the grass of the vast makeshift parking lot toward the car and encountered a sight so eccentric that you would have to say it helps make the Rose Bowl the Rose Bowl. There, in the dark darkness and near-emptiness, teetered a neighboring car, the left half of it still clinging to solid ground but the right half hovering as if the whole machine looked ripe to topple right on into … Read More...

Samantha Maldonado - 26-Year-Old Was Murdered By Alejandro

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Samantha Maldonado, a 26-Year-Old, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Alejandro Arellano on the Loop CTA platform.  Samantha Maldonado, a trained engineer who grew up in Ecuador, tragically lost her life at the Loop CTA platform. Her ex-boyfriend, Alejandro Arellano, was responsible for her murder. According to prosecutors, the two had met at Miller’s Pub on S. Wabash Ave. approximately an hour before the incident. Police reports suggest that Arellano had followed Maldonado after she left the pub. Read More...