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Waller County District Attorney: Sandra Bland’s Death Being Treated ‘Like a Murder Investigation’
Despite police reports that Sandra Bland committed suicide three days after being arrested during a routine traffic stop, the Waller County, Texas, district attorney told news reporters that he is treating the incident “like a murder investigation.” Bland, 28, was stopped July 10 in Prairie View, Texas, by a state trooper for reportedly failing to…
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Youngest Convicted Murderer in US to Be Released From Fla. Prison
In 1999, 12-year-old Curtis Fairchild Jones and his 13-year-old sister, Catherine, were the youngest children to be tried for and convicted of murder. Florida Today reports that Curtis Jones may be freed, barring any setbacks, by the end of July, and his sister by the end of August. According to the newspaper, the then-children, who claimed…
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Texas Mom Charged With Abandoning Kids at Food Court Says She Was Nearby on Job Interview
A single mother of two was arrested and charged with abandoning her children after police found them in a Houston mall eatery, but the children’s mother argues that she didn’t abandon them and that her children were never out of her line of sight. According to KHOU, Laura Browder had a job interview with a…
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Family of Sandra Bland Has Ordered Independent Autopsy
The family of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman whose body was found in a Texas jail three days after she was arrested, has ordered an independent autopsy as questions about how she died remain unanswered. “We want to understand how it is that this kind of played out and what will end up ultimately being…
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Detroit Mom Who Killed Children and Put Their Bodies in the Freezer Sentenced to Life
Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit woman who killed two of her four children and stuffed their bodies in the freezer, was sentenced to life in prison Friday and told the judge, “I don’t regret none of this. … I don’t feel no remorse for the death of them demons.” According to the New York Daily News,…
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Gunman Opens Fire in Tenn.: 4 Marines Dead, 3 Other People Injured
On Thursday a man driving a rented silver Ford Mustang convertible pulled up to a military recruitment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., and fired several shots. He then drove some seven miles to the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center and opened fire again, this time killing four Marines. Three people, including a…
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Obama Becomes 1st Sitting President to Visit Prison; Pushes Reform
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 46 people serving lengthy jail terms for nonviolent drug offenses. On Thursday, Obama continued his commitment to prison reform when he became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. According to the Associated Press, Obama visited with staff and inmates at the…
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Sandra Bland May Have Suffered From Depression, PTSD
Sandra Bland used Facebook as a diary of sorts. She would post stream of consciousness videos on a variety of topics, from going natural with her hair to the Black Lives Matter movement. She called the videos “Sandy Speaks.” She called her viewers “kings and queens.” Some five months before she would be found dead…
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Mayor in Wash. State Calls Michelle Obama ‘Gorilla Face,’ Refuses to Step Down: Report
The mayor of a city in Spokane County, Wash., reportedly took to his private Facebook account to make racist comments about both the president and first lady, and now county officials and residents are calling for him to step down. According to KXLY, Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing allegedly posted a comment on his Facebook…
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Sandra Bland Drove to Texas to Start a New Job, so How Did She End Up Dead in Jail?
On July 9, 28-year-old Sandra Bland of Naperville, Ill., drove to Texas to start a new job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M. On July 10, police stopped Bland just outside the campus for allegedly failing to signal while changing lanes. Police claim that during the stop she became combative, was thrown to the ground,…
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