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23-Year-Old Homeless Man Stops Rape Attempt in DC
Ketrell Ferguson is homeless in Washington, D.C., and was looking for a place to sleep last week around 3:30 a.m. when he stumbled on what he thought was a robbery. Ferguson armed himself with half a brick and a stick, according to NBC News 4, and got close enough to the incident to realize that…
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Tiger Woods Drops Out of the Top 100 for the 1st Time in 18 Years
For 18 years the name Tiger Woods has been synonymous with golf’s elite. For 18 years the name Woods has been listed somewhere near the top of the 100 best golfers in the world. And now, for the first time in 18 years, Woods’ name won’t be there. According to Reuters, Woods in now ranked…
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NYC Cops Hand-Deliver Jaywalking Tickets to 2 Teens Hit by Car
The New York City teens thought the officers were there to check on their well-being, considering that they had both been hit by a car while trying to cross the street. But it turns out that while the teens were in the hospital being checked by doctors, the cops were there to give them jaywalking…
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Watch: Teen Couple Beaten by Skateboarders in Calif.
A teenage California couple was savagely attacked late last week by a group of skateboarders who had reportedly warned the teen girl not to come to the area of town after an alleged fight a month ago. According to KTLA, Brooklyn Smith, 16, and her boyfriend, Toyon Carlson, were walking near Venice Beach Skate Park Thursday…
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Woman Records Alleged Rape by Parole Officer so Cops Will Believe Her
A South Florida woman videotaped her parole officer sexually assaulting her so that she could prove to police that she was, in fact, raped and so that the officer couldn’t revoke her parole, a claim the victim says he made several times, according to WSVN. According to police who spoke with the news station, 50-year-old…
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Retired St. Louis Cardinals Player Punched, Told to ‘Go Back to Ferguson’
A former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder claims that a white man punched him and yelled, “Go back to Ferguson” in an unprovoked attack that now has the man rethinking whether he can even live in the city where he once played baseball. “I was sucker-punched, blindsided,” Curt Ford, 54, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I…
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Detroit Mom Forced Children to Put Sister’s Body in Freezer: Report
On Tuesday a Detroit mother was arrested shortly after authorities serving an eviction notice found the bodies of two of her four children in a freezer. On Thursday the Detroit Free Press reported that the mother tortured the children before killing them and reportedly had her surviving children place their 13-year-old sister’s body in the…
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UVA Student Martese Johnson Makes 1st Court Appearance Since Bloody Encounter With Authorities
Images of University of Virginia honor student Martese Johnson’s bloody face went viral shortly after his encounter with Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a Charlottesville, Va., bar March 18. Johnson’s arrest and disturbing images of him lying prone on the ground made national news, and on Thursday the 20-year-old Chicago native made his first court…
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Co-Pilot’s Intention in Germanwings Crash Was to Destroy Plane: Report
After listening to the final horrifying minutes of Flight 9525 on Tuesday, heard on its black-box voice recorder, French investigators have concluded that the Germanwings jet co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit and intentionally crashed the plane “full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door,” the Associated Press…
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SAE Frat Member Apologizes for Singing Racist Song
Surrounded by black leaders and clergy at an Oklahoma City church on Wednesday, Levi Pettit, the 20-year-old former University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member, apologized for his part in a racist sing-along that went viral after it was caught on video. “There are no excuses for my behavior. I never thought of myself…
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