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  • Watch: Allegedly Drunken Woman Passed Out in Stopped Car on Busy Highway

    A video showing a 25-year-old California woman passed out in her stopped car on a busy interstate has gone viral. According to UPI, “Paul Anderegg spotted the car stopped in the middle of Interstate 805 northbound in San Diego early Friday, and he pulled over to the side of the road.” Anderegg tried to wake…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2015
  • 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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2015
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