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Brothers’ Fight Over Clothes Leads to Murder-Suicide
A fight between two brothers over sharing clothes turned deadly after Steven Odeus shot and killed his older brother Stanley Blanc and then took his own life. “Started off as a small petty argument over clothes that escalated into a fight,” Marc Blanc, a third brother told CBS4 News. “Right before my eyes my brother…
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Nigerian Official: Kidnapped Girls Located but Not Rescued
Nigerian officials believe that they have located the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last month by an Islamist militant group but are hesitant to implement a forceful rescue due to worries that doing so may endanger them, CNN reports. “We want our girls back. I can tell you that our military can and will do…
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What Were Tupac Shakur's Dying Words?
According to a police officer who was among the first on the scene of the fatal drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996, the poet and rapper’s last words were, “F—k you.” Officer Chris Carroll told the british newspaper The Independent that he was one of the first to respond to the shooting,…
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Half of Senate Demands Redskins Change Name
While the NBA is battling the backlash from LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racially charged comments to a friend, the commissioner of the National Football League has received letters from some 50 senators asking for the Washington Redskins team name to be changed, the New York Daily News reports. “The NFL can no longer ignore…
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Mark Cuban Says Sorry for ‘Black Kid’ Remark
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban found himself at the center of a social media beat-down Thursday after telling an interviewer at a conference a day earlier, “If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street.” Later Thursday, Cuban issued an…
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Quincy Jones Isn't Feeling the New Michael Jackson Album
Quincy Jones is not a fan of the new Michael Jackson Xscape album; in fact, he believes the album only came out because there’s still money left in the Michael Jackson brand. During an interview on the Canadian radio show Q with Jian Ghomeshi, the producer extraordinaire, who worked on several of Jackson’s biggest hits…
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Mark Cuban: If I See a Black Guy in a Hoodie I Cross the Street
While the NBA is still reeling from embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rant that was caught on tape, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban may have added some more fuel to the fire. Speaking at the annual GrowCo conference, a startup-meets-successful-company-representatives gathering on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., the outspoken Cuban warned the audience…
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How Mike Myers Felt Being the Guy Next to Kanye West
Mike Myers will forever be the guy next to Kanye West when the enigmatic rapper decided to make an impromptu change during a 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon. That is when West went off-script and called out President George W. Bush with the infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” comment. In the upcoming issue…
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Mom: Cop Slams Handcuffed Teen Through Plate-Glass Window
A 14-year-old Bronx, N.Y., boy underwent emergency surgery to remove shards of glass from his chest, lungs and heart after his mother says police handcuffed her son and then slammed his head through a plate-glass window for mouthing off. In a New York Daily News exclusive, Cherita Payne says her son Javier has no prior…
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Lawsuit: NFL Gave Former Players Risky Drugs to Mask Severe Injuries
A lawsuit filed on behalf of eight former NFL players alleges that that league was so profit driven that it illegally administered narcotics and painkillers to mask severe injuries, the Associated Press reports. Those players are now claiming that the risky treatments have resulted in pricey and painful medical complications. According to AP, which got…