CHICAGO — A Chicago woman has been arrested at least 396 times since 1978, including 92 times for theft and an alleged attack on a City Council member.

Over the years, Shermain Miles, 51, was arrested 65 times for disorderly conduct and 59 times for crimes related to prostitution, among other things, according to the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/17FfjyZ). She has used at least 83 different aliases and is well known among merchants and residents in several neighborhoods on Chicago’s North Side. One florist called police about her 25 times last summer.

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Miles, who is homeless, is imprisoned at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln. She was arrested last year after allegedly chasing down Chicago Alderman James Cappleman, which is a possible parole violation after a 2010 conviction for robbing a 75-year-old at knifepoint. She’s due before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board Tuesday. If it’s determined that she violated her parole, she will be behind bars until April 2014.

Her arrests have numbered so many that she is in the top 1 percent for all current Chicago Police Department arrestees. Within the last year all her cases have been assigned to a one community-based prosecutor.

Miles declined a jailhouse interview with the newspaper after initially agreeing to one. In a handwritten letter to the newspaper before the scheduled interview she described her faith and said she was looking forward to telling her story.

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Miles has spent time in area mental hospitals and participated in several community programs. Court-appointed psychologists said Miles believes people are trying to harm her.

One of her friends, Phelps Holmes, 59, described her as kind and generous. Holmes, who was once also homeless, said she didn’t talk much about her past.

“She’s always been a sweet young lady to me,” he said.

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However, Cappleman said Miles can’t be released from prison without a “highly structured” plan.

“For the sake of Ms. Miles and the community, it’s time to take the next step to ensure the community is no longer terrorized by her behavior,” the alderman wrote in a letter to the review board.

Mujo Cesic, who authorities said Miles held at knifepoint, said he wants to see her stay behind bars.

“She should never be released,” he said.

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office said Miles has at least 73 convictions, but often failed to appear in court.

Fabio Valentini, head of Cook County’s criminal prosecutions bureau, defended his office’s handling of Miles’ recent cases.

He said that when she’s been charged with a felony — 10 times — she has been convicted. He added that within the last year, her cases were assigned to a one prosecutor available to talk to the public and authorities about her activities.

Laying in his heavily guarded hospital bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, severely injured after suffering a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck and still largely unable to talk, Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was officially charged by federal prosecutors with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property. Due to his extreme injuries and the urgency of the situation, a federal judge went to his hospital bed to preside over the proceedings.

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As previously reported by NewsOne, several conservative politicians, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),  floated around the idea that Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant, but White House Press Secretary Jay Carney rejected that idea in the press room:

“We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice,’’ Carney said.

Watch news coverage of Tsarnaev being charged here:

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Monday, April 22, after a delay for a public safety exemption, and backlash from organizations as the ACLU, Tsarnaev was read his Miranda Rights.

Tsarnaev answered the judge’s questions by nodding his head, only forcing out “no” when asked could he afford an attorney. He could possibly face the death penalty.

Read the complete transcript of Tsarnaev’s hearing below:

First Hearing

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Could we be seeing the second coming of Tiger Woods?

In Ginger Howard‘s (pictured) young career, she’s won 78 trophies, ranking first in 41 out of 66 events, and the golf world has taken notice. Now, 18-year-old Howard has made history as the youngest member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), according to BlackNews.com.

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After enrolling at the IMG Golf Academy in Florida, Howard quickly advanced, petitioning the LPGA to allow her to play in its qualifying tournament last year, even though she wasn’t the mandatory 18 years old then.

What has separated her from other golfers her age? According to her swing coach at IMG, it is her toughness and love for the game.

“She loves and she thrives on the pressure and the tournament golf,” said Nathan Bertsch. “That’s the maturity in the game that is really special to me.”

Naturally, Howard’s ascent has been punctuated by its challenges: As she competed at the LGPA’s Q-School, Howard’s mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Fortunately, both of her mother’s thyroids were removed after Howard won the second stage of Q-School.

Afterward, her dad quit his job to be with her on the road. And while traveling with his daughter on her hectic schedule had made it challenging to find work, Robert Howard recently found work at the nonprofit Golf To End Cancer. Howard’s mother also recovered from her cancer and works as a nurse at IMG Academies, according to Golf Week.

While she’s still young, Howard has a bright future, which only seems to get brighter by the day.

You can learn more about Ginger on her website.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Mona Scott-Young used to wake up in cold sweat at night, wondering if she made the right decision to leave her list of high-profile hip-hop clients to branch off and create reality television shows.

That’s a dilemma the creator of the popular reality series “Love & Hip-Hop” on VH1 doesn’t have to worry about anymore.

“I was leaving something that I had built for nearly 20 years of my life,” recalled Scott-Young, who was the co-founder of Violator Management with the late Chris Lighty. Their company represented some of music’s top artists from LL Cool J to 50 Cent and Missy Elliot.

Feeling complacent and unfulfilled, Scott-Young left Violator and started her own film production company, Monami Entertainment.

The fear was strong, she said, “But it was exhilarating to start over because I had a new lease on life, venturing into territories unknown for me and just starting from scratch.”

“Love & Hip-Hop,” created with Jim Ackerman, is broken up into two different shows – one based in New York and another in Atlanta. Each show primarily focuses on six women and the supporting cast of men who are connected to the hip-hop industry, following their personal lives and careers.

The series doesn’t include any big names, but the over-the-top dramatic story lines make it compelling to watch – and also a target of criticism.

The second season of “L&HH: Atlanta” premieres Monday night on VH1, starring Stevie J, K. Michelle, Lil Scrappy and Rasheeda. It returns after pulling in strong ratings last season with an average of 3.3 million viewers and 4.4 million in the second part of the show’s reunion last year, according to Nielsen.

The New York version finished its third season last month, pulling in an average of nearly 2 million viewers. Some of the cast members include Yandy Smith, Tahiry Jose and Joe Budden.

“Mona allowed these women to tell their story, and guys like me to be known,” said Stevie J, a Grammy-winning producer who is a self-proclaimed womanizer caught in a love triangle between longtime girlfriend Mimi Faust and Joseline Hernandez. “Before, people heard of my name but didn’t know what I looked like. I relish the character that I am on television. People are amused by our stories.”

Even though “L&HH” has drawn millions of viewers, it has been under fire. Some petitioned for the show’s cancellation, saying it depicted African-American women in a negative light. Some also criticized the series for its frequent fights and focusing on the drama more than the music.

“I wish people would stop pointing the finger,” said Hernandez, who has taken the brunt of the criticism for her vulgar words exchanged and fights with others. She’s a former exotic dancer turned aspiring Latin rapper who was discovered by Stevie J.

“I know that I’m a good person, and I know where my heart is,” Hernandez continued. “I know that I’m talented and I’m a bad (expletive), so I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. We’re here to stay. People who criticize wish they were doing what we are doing.”

Scott-Young said she is taking the backlash to the show in stride, saying the positive responses from her music industry friends such as Diddy and LL Cool J gave her confidence to push forward. She said she welcomes the constructive criticism and is looking to minimize the violence in the series, but realizes the drama is what pulls in viewers.

Besides, the extra exposure is what Scott-Young and cast members are striving to capture. The show is a platform for established and up-and-coming artists to take their popularity to the next level.

The show has certainly benefited K. Michelle, a singer who didn’t have a record deal in the first season of “L&HH: Atlanta.” Now, she is signed to Warner Bros. Records and expects to release an album this summer.

“It gave people the awareness about my music,” said K. Michelle. “It gave people the opportunity to see me. Music that was out two years prior, they went back like it was brand new.”

Scott-Young hopes she can find more compelling stories like K. Michelle, Hernandez and Stevie J. She’s looking to expand the “Love & Hip-Hop” series to either Chicago, Houston, New Orleans or Miami.

“Hip-hop is global, it’s international,” said Scott-Young, who is also executive producing VH1′s “Gossip Game” and Bravo’s upcoming reality show “Taking Atlanta.” “I think the franchise is limitless. I’m here as long as they want me here.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic supporters of a new immigration bill accused opponents Monday of trying to “exploit” the Boston Marathon bombings to hold up the legislation, sparking a testy exchange at a Senate hearing.

“I never said that! I never said that!” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, interjected as Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a lead author of the bill, criticized “those who are pointing to what happened, the terrible tragedy in Boston, as a, I would say, excuse for not doing a bill or delaying it.”

Schumer said he wasn’t talking about Grassley, who said last week that the bombings, allegedly carried out by two immigrant brothers, raised question about gaps in the U.S. immigration system that should be examined in context of the new bill. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., banged his gavel to settle the proceedings.

The exchange came as the Judiciary Committee opened its second hearing on sweeping legislation to strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers’ legal status, and provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants now here illegally.

The obstacles to the legislation, released last week by a group of four Republican and four Democratic senators, were on stark display Monday. Polls show majority public backing for comprehensive legislation including a path to citizenship, and many Republicans also support such an approach. But in some corners, opposition has not wavered. That became clear as GOP senators took turns offering critiques.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called a path to citizenship “divisive,” and said that “any bill that insists upon that jeopardizes the likelihood of passing any immigration reform bill.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., contended that the new bill would drive down wages and eliminate jobs for American workers.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the border security piece of the bill “falls well short of the sponsors’ aspiration to protect the borders and maintain U.S. sovereignty.”

And Grassley said new requirements mandating employers to verify employees’ legal status are ineffective.

Republicans weren’t the only ones to find the legislation wanting. Several Democrats expressed concerns over the exclusion of provisions to recognize gay marriages for immigration purposes. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., promised to fight to get such a measure included – something Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has said could sink the bill.

Rows of spectators looked on wearing white T-shirts reading “Keep Families Together” as senators heard Monday from business and labor leaders, immigration advocates and opponents of reform, and others.

But as happened at the first hearing on the bill, on Friday, the Boston Marathon bombings colored the proceedings.

The attacks were allegedly carried out by two ethnic Chechen immigrant brothers who both arrived legally in the U.S. about a decade ago and sought asylum. One was a legal permanent resident and the other a naturalized U.S. citizen. On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined Grassley and others who’ve suggested that the bombings showed the need to examine national security and the U.S. immigration system.

“We should not proceed until we understand the specific failures of our immigration system,” Paul wrote in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Paul said that national security protections must be part of any immigration legislation to ensure the federal government does everything it can to keep immigrants “with malicious intent” from using the immigration system to enter the country to commit acts of terror.

Some Democrats suggest that the true motive behind at least some voicing such concerns is to oppose immigration legislation. Leahy used part of his opening statement Monday to assert that opponents of immigration reform had begun “to exploit the Boston Marathon bombing.”

“Let no one be so cruel as to try to use the heinous acts of these two young men last week to derail the dreams and futures of millions of hardworking people,” Leahy said.

He said the bill would strengthen national security by focusing on border security and enforcement.

Grassley bridled at Leahy’s comments, saying that when Leahy proposed gun legislation, “I didn’t accuse you of using the Newtown killings as an excuse.”

“I think we’re taking advantage of an opportunity where once in 25 years we deal with immigration to make sure that every base is covered,” Grassley said.

And Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., an author of the immigration bill who has strong ties to conservatives, disputed Leahy’s comments.

“I disagree with those who say that the terrorist attack in Boston has no bearing on the immigration debate. Any immigration reform we pursue should make our country safer and more secure,” Rubio said. “If there are flaws in our immigration system that were exposed by the attack in Boston, any immigration reform passed by Congress this year should address those flaws.”

At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney was asked about the issue and said the administration believes that “one of the reasons we need comprehensive immigration reform is because it will enhance, when implemented, our national security.”

Schumer noted that one of the Boston suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a firefight with police, apparently was able to travel to Russia in 2011 without the trip being detected by the FBI because his name was misspelled by an airline. The immigration bill would have prevented that because it requires passports to be swiped when people leave the country, Schumer said.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, also weighed in Monday, telling an interviewer on Fox News’ “American Newsroom”, “I’m in the camp of, if we fix our immigration system, it may actually help us understand who all is here, why they’re here, and what legal status they have.”

This undated photo provided by Frederick Reed shows Dejah Reed, an Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors to be published Monday, April 22, 2013, advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. (AP Photo/Frederick Reed)

CHICAGO — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.

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The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. But the spice is caustic, and trying to gulp it down can cause choking, throat irritation, breathing trouble and even collapsed lungs, the report said.

Published online Monday in Pediatrics, the report said at least 30 teens nationwide needed medical attention after taking the challenge last year.

The number of poison control center calls about teens doing the prank “has increased dramatically,” from 51 in 2011 to 222 last year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

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“People with asthma or other respiratory conditions are at greater risk of having this result in shortness of breath and trouble breathing,” according to an alert posted on the association’s website.

Thousands of YouTube videos depict kids attempting the challenge, resulting in an “orange burst of dragon breath” spewing out of their mouths and sometimes hysterical laughter from friends watching the stunt, said report co-author Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz, a pediatrics professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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Cinnamon is made from tree bark and contains cellulose fibers that don’t easily break down. Animal research suggests that when cinnamon gets into the lungs, it can cause scarring, Lipshultz said.

Dr. Stephen Pont, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and an Austin, Texas pediatrician, said the report is “a call to arms to parents and doctors to be aware of things like the cinnamon challenge” and to pay attention to what their kids are viewing online.

An Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge heartily supports the new advice and started her own website — http://nocinnamonchallenge.com — telling teens to “just say no” to the fad.

Dejah Reed, 16, said she took the challenge four times — the final time was in February last year with a friend who didn’t want to try it alone.

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“I was laughing very hard and I coughed it out and I inhaled it into my lungs,” she said. “I couldn’t breathe.”

Her father, Fred Reed, said he arrived home soon after to find Dejah “a pale bluish color. It was very terrifying. I threw her over my shoulder” and drove to a nearby emergency room.

Watch two kids play “Cinnamon Challenge” in YouTube video below:

Dejah was hospitalized for four days and went home with an inhaler and said she still has to use it when she gets short of breath from running or talking too fast. Her dad said she’d never had asthma or breathing problems before.

Dejah said she’d read about the challenge on Facebook and other social networking sites and “thought it would be cool” to try.

Now she knows “it’s not cool and it’s dangerous.”

FILE – In this April 22, 1998 file photo, singer-songwriter Richie Havens speaks during a news conference in New York, to announce the first annual Native American Music Awards. Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died at 72. His family says in a statement that Havens died Monday, April 22, 2013, of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

NEW YORK  – Richie Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died of a heart attack Monday, his family said in a statement. He was 72.

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Havens, a folk singer and guitarist, was the first performer at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival. He returned to the site during the 40th anniversary in 2009.

“Everything in my life, and so many others, is attached to that train,” he said in a 2009 interview with The Associated Press.

Havens was born in Brooklyn. He was known for his crafty guitar work and cover songs, including his well-received impersonation of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.”

The singer’s website said he had kidney surgery years ago and that he never recovered enough to perform concerts like he used to.

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Havens performed at Bill Clinton’s presidential Inauguration in 1993. He has released more than 25 albums. His last album was 2008′s “Nobody Left to Crown.”

“I really sing songs that move me,” he said in an interview with The Denver Post. “I’m not in show business; I’m in the communications business. That’s what it’s about for me.”

A public memorial will be planned for a later date.

First the IRS comes snipping at R&B songstress Lauryn Hill’s (pictured) heels, now she is reportedly being sued by her landlord for not paying her rent, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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The eight time Grammy Award-winning artist has been renting a South Orange, N.J., manse for over three years now. When the rent checks allegedly stopped, the landlord hightailed it to court. The owner of the property in question reportedly filed a legal ultimatum with an Essex County tenancy court for Hill to pay up or get out.

Since the 37-year-old mother of six children failed to pay up the delinquent rent, the unidentified landlord has now begun proceedings to oust the performer off his property.

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Hill also now faces possible jail time after being convicted on tax evasion charges. In June of last year, Hill pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to pay Uncle Sam a reported $1.8 million for three tax years from 2005 to 2007. The former Fugees member faces a maximum one year jail term on each of the three counts.

The reclusive hip-hop artist faces sentencing on April 22 and a fine of $100,000 on each offense.

Hill has mostly disappeared from the music scene over the last few years to raise her children, five of whom she had with Rohan Marley, the son of the late reggae star Bob Marley.

Regarding her most recent IRS case, Hill responded to the tax charges earlier this month in a lengthy statement, saying she had chosen to “defer” payments during a period of withdrawal from society to protect her family for “very real threats.”

Hill has only made a handful of rare appearances over the last few years and has not released an album since 2001.

Meet A.J. Clamente (pictured), the former anchor for NBC affiliate KFYR in Bismarck, North Dakota whose tenure was perhaps the shortest in the station’s history.

Just seconds into the 5 p.m. newscast, the rookie anchor uttered “f*cking sh*t”–twice–under his breath as his co-anchor, Van Tieu, greeted viewers and introduced him. Tieu was clearly fazed by Clamente’s sudden profanity but continued with her introduction anyway. Clamente, seemed to be caught off guard when he realized he was on live.  He never recovered.

Tieu: A.J, tell us a little about yourself.

Clamente: Umm. Thanks Van. I’m really excited. I graduated from West Virginia University and I’m used to, umm, you know, being from the east coast.”

Tieu: OK. Well, welcome aboard A.J.

Watch the video below:

Clamente went on to announce the news, but not for long. He sent out a tweet, acknowledging his first go in the anchor chair was a fail.

Nope, it couldn’t have!

Then the station’s news director took to Facebook and wrote this:

During the station’s 10 p.m. newscast, co-anchor Tieu has this to say:

And today, A.J. tweeting the inevitable:

and:

Too bad, A.J. But don’t be discouraged! Everyone makes mistakes and we’re sure you’ll find another gig. Just be sure to bit your tongue when you get nervous next time!

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Legendary jazz vocalist, songwriter, and civil rights activist Nina Simone has influenced dozens of celebrated artists with her unique and formidable abilities. Simone’s distinctive voice influenced many of today’s artists, including Aretha Franklin, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, and many others. After a long and fruitful career, Simone would pass away in France on this day at the age of 70.

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Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in the small town of Tyron in North Carolina, Simone was a musical prodigy: At age 4, she began piano lessons and singing in her church’s choir. With six other siblings, times were hard in her household, but a generous music teacher gave her special assistance. Winning a scholarship, Simone would head to New York to study at the Juilliard School of Music in the art of classical piano.

With money becoming scarce, Simone dropped out of Juilliard and traveled south to Philadelphia to restart her academic career. When she was rejected by a vaunted music program there, which she claims was racially motivated, she turned her back on classical music and began playing jazz standards.

Eventually, she would start singing along and amassed a following of admirers, such as writers Langston Hughes and James Baldwin in the 1950s. It was then she took the stage name Nina Simone, and her popularity grew.

In the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement was taking shape and it coincided heavily with the arc of Simone’s career at that point. Growing tired of doing pop music tunes, Simone and then-husband/manager Andrew Stroud shifted her sound to a more radical, message-based path. Simone had never been shy about her African-American roots in song, but in the mid- to- late-’60s, it was apparent she was ready to rise to a new challenge.

Her 1964 album, “Nina Simone In Concert,” featured the stirring “Mississippi Goddamn,” a song she wrote in response to the savage murder of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombings.

Watch Simone perform “Mississippi Goddamn” here:

On the same record, Simone touched upon the racist Jim Crow laws with the song “Old Jim Crow.” The songs catapulted her as a strong voice and fixture of the movement although she preached a far more fiery and violent message in contrast to Martin Luther King’s non-violent practices.

In the 1970s, Simone would embark on a journey that had her traipsing through several countries before settling in France. After returning to America from Barbados, Simone received a warrant for her arrest over unpaid taxes. She refused to pay the government in protest of the Vietnam War. Sensing that she would be detained, Simone lived abroad in Liberia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

Simone recorded heavily between 1974 and 1993 and maintained a busy touring schedule throughout Europe. She would record her final album, “A Single Woman,” in 1993.

Watch Simone perform “A Single Woman” here:

Simone struggled with her health and finances in her final years, but was performing recently as 1999 alongside her daughter, Lisa Stroud (pictured), who sings and acts under the stage name Simone.

Simone passed away in her home from still-unknown causes, although it was rumored to be cancer-related.

Watch Simone perform “The Other Woman” here:

Simone’s stirring and resonant vocals have yet to be re-enacted in current times, which is a testament to just how special her talents were. Although many of her songs possibly would not cut through the cookie-cutter din of today’s market, vocalists and musicians of high repute owe Simone a great deal of gratitude. A powerful woman with an even more powerful voice and message, Nina Simone lives on through song and spirit.

Rest In Powerful Peace, Nina Simone!

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Moctar Dembele (pictured right) and Gerard Niyondiko (pictured) have won the Global Science Venture (GSVC) competition for creating an anti-malaria repellent soap, reports CP-Africa.

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Burkina Faso native Dembele and Burundi native Niyondiko created Faso Soap from different herbs, including karate citronella. According to the product profile:

In many countries of tropical Africa, malaria is the leading cause of death for the population. It represents 30-40% of hospital admissions and up to 40% of public health expenditure.

Solution

Production and marketing of soap “mosquito,” based on shea butter and enriched with essential oils of lemongrass and concern, to protect its users from malaria.

Impact

Reduction massive number of people affected by malaria, especially among the poorest and basic hygiene.

According to Niyondiko, the soap will initially be available in African countries hit hardest by malaria. “The soap will be available first here, and then given to NGO.”

Watch the Faso Soap GSVC pitch here:

“We want a simple solution, because every one uses soaps, even in the very poor communities,” Dembélé added.

Dembele and Niyondiko have not only helped Africa with their creation, they’ve also made history.

They are also the first non-Americans to win the GSVC, which challenges students across the world to create their own business plans for social ventures. The grand prize is $25,000

According to the World Health Organization, the African continent accounts for 85 percent of malaria cases and 90 percent of malaria deaths worldwide. Eighty-five percent of those deaths occur in children under 5 years old.

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Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett (pictured) chatted with Esquire Magazine for their “What I’ve Learned” feature series, and her varied musings on her relationship with the President, why she doesn’t keep ice cream in her home, as well as why she switched paths along her professional journey provide a delightful lens in to an accomplished woman’s life.

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While many may know that Jarrett was tapped to become an advisor to President almost as soon as he became the President-Elect in 2008, some may not know exactly how far back Jarrett and the Obamas actually go.

Jarrett actually met the Obamas in 1991, after she interviewed and immediately offered Michelle, who was Barack‘s fiancee at the time, a position at the mayor’s office. Afterward, the young couple reportedly went to dinner with Jarrett, where Jarrett was introduced to Barack.

Their relationship would gel quickly, with Jarrett “introduc[ing] them to a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own.” And when Jarrett would leave then-Mayor Richard Daley‘s office to go to Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development, she would take Michelle with her.

And the rest is history.

In her interview with Esquire, the former CEO of the Habitat Company openly talks about the difference between Michelle and Barack, saying, “The President is the kind of person who, the day before the final exam, would open the book, read it, and get an A. The First Lady is the kind of person who, the first day of class when they were discussing dissertations, would plot out how to finish hers.”

Jarrett also talks about her comfort with going from boss to “employee”:

“I spent the first 18 years of our relationship being the older mentor. I liked our relationship like that. It worked for me. One of the reasons it was so easy to have my mentee become my boss is because I respect him.

And if you are wondering whether Jarrett always knew that Mr. Obama would be something special, she says about his Senate run, “I did question the President back when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate. I wasn’t sure it was the right time for him. That has generated periodic humor at my expense.”

….

“If you had asked me on the night when I first met him, could that be possible, I probably would’ve said yes, but it would’ve been a fantasy. But to then live it and share it with my daughter, who thinks it’s perfectly normal to have your mom’s friend become president of the United States….”

Jarrett also sheds some light on how her earlier path as a high-powered lawyer made her “miserable”:

“I was the first person in my family to become a lawyer. I was working on the seventy-ninth floor of the Sears Tower. I had a great office overlooking the sailboats on Lake Michigan. But I was miserable. A friend advised me to think about city government. I was hesitant—I was on my path and, miserable as I might be, it was my path.

“But Harold Washington had become the first black mayor of Chicago, and I made the move. I got a cubicle … with a window facing an alley. That was a little jarring. But as soon as I stepped in that cubicle, I felt This is where I belong. I was working with people who shared a common passion in their love for the city. I thought, Hey, I can get used to this cubicle.”

And about that ice cream, “I try not to keep any ice cream in the house because I can go through a pint pretty fast.”

Read the rest of Jarrett’s compelling thoughts here.

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Murray Bergtraum High School, which is located in Manhattan’s downtown financial district and has been plagued with a violent reputation, is now in the news yet again. This time, student fisticuffs involving two separate incidents was caught on tape last Thursday, reports the New York Daily News.

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Surrounded by fellow classmates egging them on with their smart phones, several female teens can be seen duking it out. As the violence spirals out of control, nearby students are seen jumping in to the fights as they wildly throw punches.

Watch the Murry Bergtraum High School fight here:

According to an unnamed Department of Education (DOE) representative who spoke to the New York Daily News, “There were two fights among girls in the hallway, and students left classrooms to see the fight.” While no arrests have been made or injuries reported, summonses were handed out.

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Murray Bergtraum High School (pictured at right) has had its fair share of bad press over the years due to numerous episodes of violence.

Bergtraum, which made the city’s list of “Impact” or violent schools in 2009, made negative headlines in December 2010 when New York City police placed a metal detector in the building because of a student riot, where a NYPD officer got hit over the head with a trash can and an individual was sent to the hospital.

Watch the riot here:

Bergtraum, which is ironically located behind the city’s police headquarters, offers business and marketing courses as well as hands-on experience in a school store. Despite the many efforts of educational administrators to correct the violent culture at Bergtraum, there is an array of problems that still plague it, such as overcrowding, below than average attendance, a high drop-out rate, and discipline problems.

Anyone keen on the Supreme Court’s on-going arguments over the legality of certain parts of the Voter Rights Act surely has not forgotten Justice Antonio Scalia‘s “racial entitlement” remarks from earlier this year–especially “The Crisis,” the NAACP’s flagship publication.

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“I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. It’s been written about, Scalia said of the Act during a hearing back in February. “Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.

The award-winning magazine pulled no punches with its response, using its cover to feature an illustration of Justice Scalia with a Confederate flag bandana wrapped around his mouth. The conservative’s eyes peer ominously through his thinly-framed eye glasses, evoking worst memories from the era in which the original Voter Right’s Act was born.

The cover is very hard-hitting, but The Crisis’ Editor-in-Chief, Jabari Asim, told NewsOne, “we thought his comments were hard-hitting and deserved that kind of response. I think that voting rights is one of those principles that the Crisis, African-Americans, and the NAACP all hold sacred. The memory of people who died for our right to vote remains fresh in many of our consciences and I think in that instance when you dare to be that irreverent and that disrespectful of the lessons of history that’s the kind of response you earn.”

While the final ruling on the Act is not expected until June, the Crisis decided to run the cover now because the editors wanted to keep the case fresh in readers’ minds. The magazine, which is now available, also has a number of stories focused on the case.

The disputed part of the Act–Section 5–requires 16 mostly southern states to clear any voting changes with the federal government before enacting them into law. The Section became particularly important, when states across the US tried passing Voter ID laws, redistricting plans and restrictions on early voting.

More than 30 states have been successful in passing legislation requiring citizens to show ID before voting in recent years, including nearly 10 last year. But they were forced to hold off on enacting it until after the 2012 Presidential Election. In the past, presenting a social security card or a utility bill sufficed. The legislation was widely considered a nationwide GOP tactic to suppress the Black and Latino vote.

Whether that was the intent of the legislation or not, it did not hurt minority voter turnout–especially among Latinos, whose turnout actually increased a percentage point from the 2008 election.

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Though, Mitt Romney’s focus on mostly White voter turnout and recent GOP debacles–see Rand Pauls’ speech a historically Black Howard University–have some wondering if the GOP will lean on the following  : If we can’t get em’, suppress em’.

As the High Court is expected to hand down its ruling over the Act this summer, Justice Scalia’s remarks should be at the top of our minds. And, with its recent cover, The Crisis has provided a visual to ensure we don’t forget the importance of the High Court’s upcoming ruling.

“(The Crisis) believes there is only one right decision to make in this case and that is to retain Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” Asim said. “We wanted to make that clear.”

Indeed, the cover is very clear.

Here are Justice Scalia’s full remarks below:

JUSTICE SCALIA: Well, maybe it was making that judgment, Mr. Verrilli. But that’s — that’s a problem that I have. This Court doesn’t like to get involved in — in racial questions such as this one. It’s something that can be left — left to Congress.

The problem here, however, is suggested by the comment I made earlier, that the initial enactment of this legislation in a — in a time when the need for it was so much more abundantly clear was — in the Senate, there — it was double-digits against it. And that was only a 5-year term.

Then, it is reenacted 5 years later, again for a 5-year term. Double-digits against it in the Senate. Then it was reenacted for 7 years. Single digits against it. Then enacted for 25 years, 8 Senate votes against it. And this last enactment, not a single vote in the Senate against it. And the House is pretty much the same. Now, I don’t think that’s attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. It’s been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.

I don’t think there is anything to be gained by any Senator to vote against continuation of this act. And I am fairly confident it will be reenacted in perpetuity unless — unless a court can say it does not comport with the Constitution. You have to show, when you are treating different States differently, that there’s a good reason for it.

That’s the — that’s the concern that those of us who — who have some questions about this statute have. It’s — it’s a concern that this is not the kind of a question you can leave to Congress. There are certain districts in the House that are black districts by law just about now. And even the Virginia Senators, they have no interest in voting against this. The State government is not their government, and they are going to lose — they are going to lose votes if they do not reenact the Voting Rights Act.

Even the name of it is wonderful: The Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?

Now in its third year, President Barack Obama (pictured left at last year’s Science Fair) will host the annual White House Science Fair that celebrates the achievements of young high school and college students who entered and won various science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions nationwide. The fair will feature ingenious creations, such as a manually operated water sanitation system, a mobile app that helps babysitters and nannies care for young ones, and more.

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Among the winners are 18-year-old Kiona Elliot (pictured at left) from Oakland Park, Fla., who worked alongside classmate Payton Karr, 16, to invent a bicycle pedal-powered water filtration system.

The Northeast High School students say their device is transportable and can be operational and ready to move under an hour. The system can clean contaminated water, hydrating up to 30 people in a 15-hour period.

Both Elliot and Karr will be the first from their families to attend college.

Chicago’s Shaquiesha Davis (pictured below right), 16, designed the innovative mobile app “Baby B 4 Me,” featuring a real-time chart that allows parents to record the feeding schedule of their babies in order to assist care providers.

The program also allows the care provider to update the chart and note when a task has been finished.

Ms. Davis created her app based on her experiences as a babysitter.

Anthony Halmon also hails from Chicago and is a young Father reared in the tough streets of the windy city. Instead of letting early fatherhood keep him from his dreams, Mr. Halmon became even more determined to use education as his pathway to success.

As the CEO/Founder of “Thermofier,” Halmon’s clever combination of a pacifier with a built-in thermometer and soothing gel will ease the concerns of parents trying to monitor the health of a fussy baby.

The 19-year-old will be entering Cornell University this fall.

Memphis teens Wesley Carter, 18, and Darius Hooker, 19 (both pictured below), were both part of an aviation program at Wooddale High School. While in the program, the “fly boys” studied for pilot licenses and learned about rocket science. The young men, with the help of community support, went to Washington to enter the Team America Rocketry Challenge.

Carter and Hooker had to propel an egg in to the air and have it descend back to the ground unbroken in 60 seconds time. Hooker is studying aircraft mechanics license ahead of taking college courses before taking a position with FedEx. Carter is currently enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University.

Watch the White House Science Fair live here today (April 22) at 11:30 a.m. ET.

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FEDERAL WAY, Wash.– Gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in a city south of Seattle and five people were shot to death, including a suspect who was shot by arriving officers, police said early Monday.

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Officers responding to an emergency call at 9:30 p.m. PDT Sunday at the apartments in Federal Way encountered a chaotic scene, with bullets flying.

“When officers arrived, there were still shots being fired,” said Federal Way police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock.

They found two wounded men on the ground in a parking lot. One of the men reached for a gun as police moved in to assist the two, she said.

At that point, officers opened fire. The suspect died but police said it wasn’t immediately clear if it was from their gunfire.

The other man on the ground and a third man in the parking lot were found dead.

In a search of the complex, police found a fourth man dead in one apartment and a slain woman in another unit. Schrock said police were trying to determine if the woman was hit by a stray bullet.

A total of eight officers fired their weapons, Schrock said. All have been placed on administrative leave, per standard policy, as the investigation continues.

There was no immediate word what set off the shooting. Police scheduled a briefing for late Monday morning.

“We still don’t have any idea what started this disturbance tonight,” Schrock said.

After police flooded the area and carried out searches, authorities said they were confident there were no more casualties from the shooting.

They said they did not think another shooter was on the loose or that there was an immediate threat to the public.

There were no reports of any officers being injured, and the names of the five people who were killed were not immediately available.

Federal Way is about 20 miles south of Seattle.

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Julius Campbell, 14, was reported missing on March 10, 2013, and on April 12, his body was pulled from the Marquette Park lagoon on Chicago’s Southwest Side with multiple stab wounds piercing his body, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago police have ruled the Gage Park High School freshman’s death a homicide.

See WGN news report below:

Campbell’s mother, Christina Campbell, who described her son as “kindhearted” and “hardworking,” said that knew something wrong because it was out of character for him to disappear:

“This was out of the norm for my child,” she said. “He’d never done this before. I was telling everybody that something was wrong, something was wrong. … He calls me when he’s gonna be late. He was just one of those kids who followed the rules of the house.”

Campbell’s missing person’s case was closed on April 18 and the homicide investigation into his death is ongoing.

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When President Barack Obama assured a nation in upheaval that one of the suspected terrorists behind the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, would be brought to justice, and several media reports vilified Islam and the Chechen people in desperate attempts to disassociate two Caucasian men who had lived in the United States most of their lives from White America at-large, the arguably hypocritical outrage did not go unnoticed by many, including one very brave McClatchy journalist, Amina Ismail.

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During a White House press briefing, Ismail directly asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney  a simple question:

I send my deepest condolence to the victims and families in Boston. But President Obama said that what happened in Boston was an act of terrorism.

I would like to ask, Do you consider the U.S. bombing on civilians in Afghanistan earlier this month that left 11 children and a woman killed a form of terrorism? Why or why not?

The children, ages 1 to 12, were killed along with a woman when a home allegedly thought to be holding a Taliban suspect was bombed. Five women were also wounded. Read about this latest known U.S. bombing of innocent children here and see them lovingly garbed for their funeral below:

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Carney tap-danced around the question and finally came up with this:

Well, I would have to know more about the incident and then obviously the Department of Defense would have answers to your questions on this matter. We have more than 60,000 U.S. troops involved in a war in Afghanistan, a war that began when the United States was attacked, in an attack that was organized on the soil of Afghanistan by al Qaeda, by Osama bin laden and others and more than 3,000 people were killed in that attack. And it has been the President’s objective once he took office to make clear what our goals are in Afghanistan and that is to disrupt, dismantle and ultimately defeat al Qaeda. And with that as our objective to provide enough assistance to Afghan National Security Forces and the Afghan government to allow them to take over security for themselves. And that process is underway and the United States has withdrawn a substantial number of troops and we are in the process of drowning down further as we hand over security lead to Afghan forces. And it is certainly the case that I refer you to the defense department for details that we take great care in the prosecution of this war and we are very mindful of what our objectives are.

Hear audio below:

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As previously reported by NewsOne, the United States has engaged in a one-sided drone war that has killed an estimated 216 innocent children.

Appearing on the radio with his comrade-in-arms, Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornel West criticized the Commander-in-Chief  (who did not start the drone war, but has expanded it) for a strategic decision which seeks to minimize the loss of American lives by utilizing drone warfare that is both indiscriminate and inhumane.

“I think, my dear brother, the chickens are coming home to roost,” West told Smiley. “We’ve been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It’s been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.”

Below is a list of children who have lost their lives because of drones authorized by President George W. Bush and President Obama. I purposely list them in the middle of this article so that while people more concerned with patriotism than humanity can pretend they don’t exist, they will have to scroll past their names to do so.

PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender
Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
Rahatullah |17 | male
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
Shahjehan | 15 | male
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
Numair | 14 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
Shabir | 15 | male
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
Shafiullah | 16 | male
Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male
Talha | 8 | male

YEMEN
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
Nasser Salim | 19

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So we can cheer the death of suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and the capture of Dzhokhar, and rightfully mourn the loss of 8-year-old Martin Richard, and the other innocent people killed and injured in the heinous attack on Boston, but let’s not wrap ourselves in the U.S. flag and pretend that we are morally above reproach.

Often times, the only difference between justice and terrorism is whose side you’re on.

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In an appearance on Fox’s “Good Day Philadelphia” Thursday morning, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s answers to simple questions so amused anchors Sheinelle Jones and Mike Jerrick that Jones began laughing until she cried, forcing the show to go to break, reports Raw Story.

There to promote his E! Reality Show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” Lochte brought new meaning to when the package is that pretty, people don’t care what’s inside. It swiftly became crystal clear that the Olympian thought his looks alone would help him skate through the interview and Jones — while continuing to say that he was cute — couldn’t keep a straight face.

When Jerrick wondered aloud how they would get enough material to film him and mocked the swimmer’s attire and life’s motto, Jones completely broke down on air and it was hilarious.

Watch below and prepare to LOL!

The family of Katherine Russell, 26, the wife of deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and mother of his young child, has released a statement condemning her husband’s alleged actions, reports ABC6.com.

“Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child. We can’t begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot’s Day horror, we know that we really never know Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.”

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Neighbors in the North Kingstown neighborhood voiced their disbelief that Russell was married to Tsarnaev

“It was always across the street,” said Paula Gillette. ” They were together. You know he had dark hair. That’s about as much as I can tell you… “To be so close to home is really surprising. I think everybody is a bit shaken up in the whole neighborhood.”

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ABC6 Investigative Reporter Mark Curtis said that the Russell family “asked the media and others to respect its privacy at this difficult time.”

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