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Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After She Poisoned Easter Collards
A Fayetteville, N.C., teen was upset that her grandmother had taken her cellphone as punishment, so she spiked the Easter Sunday collard greens with insecticide, Breaking 911 reports. Tyt’ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, is now charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after her grandmother Gaylon Moody and a friend of Moody’s ate the collards. According…
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NBA Superstar Joakim Noah Sues Le Coq Sportif for Making Crappy Shoes
NBA superstar Joakim Noah is suing French shoe company Le Coq Sportif for making crappy shoes that the Chicago Bulls center believes damaged his feet, TMZ Sports reports. According to the sports gossip site, Noah filed a lawsuit against the shoe company in a Washington, D.C., court in November claiming that LCS reneged on his…
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Ex-Soldier, Guilty of Murdering 5-Year–Old Daughter, Could Face Death Penalty
A former soldier who brutally murdered his 5-year-old daughter on military property in Hawaii may face the death penalty even though Hawaii abolished capital punishment decades ago, the New York Daily News reports. A federal jury on Thursday found Naeem Williams guilty of beating to death his daughter Talia in July 2005. Beginning Tuesday, jurors…
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10-Year-Old Girl Gives Michelle Obama Unemployed Dad’s Résumé
A 10-year-old girl took her chance to try to help her father out during the White House’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. During a question-and-answer session Thursday with children of Executive Office employees, Charlotte Bell told Michelle Obama that her dad has been unemployed for three years. Then she handed the first…
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Shaquille O’Neal Has a LinkedIn Page … and It’s Great
With unemployment rates on a too-slow decline, one can never be too content with one’s current job situation—not even a future NBA Hall of Famer who is the “CEO, President at Alot of different companies. Inc.” That’s right: Shaquille O’Neal has a LinkedIn profile, which New York’s Daily News has confirmed is the former NBA center’s…
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5 NY Hasidic Men Arrested in the Beating of a Black Gay Man
Police arrested five Hasidic men Wednesday in a mob attack against a gay black man in a case that was initially investigated as a bias attack, the New York Daily News reports. After a night of partying last December, fashion student Taj Patterson, 22, told authorities that he was headed to his home in Fort…
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Richard Sherman, NFL Players School Harvard Students on Race
Richard Sherman wants to make a couple of things clear: First, he was fully aware of the impact that his NFC championship game rant would cause and second, and maybe more importantly, he liked it that way. On Wednesday, the outspoken Seattle Seahawks cornerback told a standing-room-only crowd at the Harvard Business School that the…
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Chris Brown’s Bodyguard Denied Immunity; Trial Delayed
Looks as if Chris Brown will have to wait to learn his fate regarding the alleged beating of a Maryland man. His trial, which was set to begin in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, has been put on hold for months and could be delayed as long as a year, the Associated Press reports. Brown’s bodyguard, Christopher…
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The Man Police Forgot to Lock Up for 13 Years Now Wants to Be Set Free
A St. Louis, Mo., man was convicted in May 2000 of robbing a Burger King and told that he would receive instructions about when and where to report to prison. He waited. The instructions never arrived. While waiting, he got married … twice, raised four children, trained as a carpenter, and started a home-improvement company.…
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You Won’t Believe What Oprah’s Ex-Stepmom Has to Say About Her
Oprah Winfrey called her stepmother on her birthday and told her she had only a few days to get out of the house she had shared with Oprah’s father for over a dozen years. That is just one of the scandalous claims that Barbara Winfrey made about the media mogul in an explosive interview with…