The race for Inglewood mayor has come down to a runoff between Inglewood councilman Danny Tabor and former Inglewood deputy police chief James Butts. The winner of the August 17th election will finish the last two months of previous Mayor Roosevelt Dorn’s term. Dorn resigned in January after being convicted on corruption charges.

Both candidates qualified for the runoff by finishing in the top two of last month’s mayoral primary. Tabor, who finished with 26.38 percent of the vote, and Butts, who finished with 23.71 percent of the vote, beat out a field of six other candidates.

It was an all too rare moment as life dealt a horrifying blow to a rising music superstar in a tragedy that horrified not only her fans but most everyone who read and saw the headlines that for three days captivated a nation.

It was on October 24, 2008 that the music stopped for Jennifer Hudson. It was also the day that Hudson’s life was forever changed.

The moment, Hudson described as surreal for VH1’s “Behind The Music” which aired July 29 and marked the first time the 28-year old Chicago native had publicly spoke of the tragedy.