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Chicago’s Urban Prep Does It Again: 100 Percent College Acceptance
From the time they enter Chicago’s Urban Prep Academies, the young men are asked to wear red ties. They may change these ties only once: after they have been admitted into college. During this year’s graduation ceremony, students who had achieved the honor were given new yellow ties with red stripes, a gesture to symbolize…
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Lolo Jones Slams Drake and Rihanna on Twitter
She isn’t that good at bobsledding, but Lolo Jones is always good for a laugh or a cringe. The Olympian and controversial tweeter is back at it again, this time setting her crosshairs on rapper Drake and singer Rihanna. After ESPN announced that Drake would be the host of this year’s ESPYs, the awards show…
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Shoe Thrown at Hillary Clinton During Speech
Hillary Clinton and former President George W. Bush have had little in common until Thursday. That’s when a woman allegedly threw a shoe at Clinton during a speech at a Las Vegas hotel, an experience that Bush encountered in 2008 during a Baghdad news conference with the Iraqi prime minister. Clinton was able to dodge…
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Kaepernick Being Investigated Over ‘Incident’ in Miami
Two members of the San Francisco 49ers, including star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and a Seattle Seahawks player have been named in a “suspicious incident” report by a woman who told police that she woke up in a hospital with no idea how she got there, CSN Bay Area News reports. “There’s no evidence of a…
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Detroit Teen Charged With Hate Crime in Brutal Mob Beating of Motorist
A 16-year-old Detroit boy was charged Thursday with assault and a hate crime in the brutal group beating of a 54-year-old man, Steve Utash, who stopped to check on a 10-year-old boy whom he had just struck with his pickup truck, the Associated Press reports. Yesterday Detroit police announced that they had arrested a fifth…
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MSU Fan Lacey Holsworth Dies of Cancer at Age 8
Lacey Holsworth met Michigan State player Adreian Payne while she was in the hospital, and the two became fast friends. Lacey Holsworth would attend all the games, cheering on Payne and the other members of the team. All would come to “adopt” her as their sister. On senior night, the 6-foot-10-inch center found the 8-year-old,…
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Mother, 2 Others Arrested in Boy’s Beating Posted as Facebook Video
An 11-year-old whose family was upset with his alleged thuggish behavior and possible gang involvement decided to teach him a lesson that included a videotaped whipping that was posted on Facebook. That lesson has led to three people being charged with assault, CBS Detroit reports. Demitria Latrion Powell, the child’s 28-year-old mother, Uteas Michelle Taylor,…
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Petition Wants Michael Vick Banned From Jets Practice Site
The New York Jets are realizing that their newly acquired quarterback comes with more baggage than they may have bargained for. With training camps not even under way, students at SUNY Cortland’s campus, where the Jets hold practice, don’t want Michael Vick there and have started a petition to get him banned. The petition, which…
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UMass Basketball Player Becomes 1st Openly Gay NCAA Division I Athlete
Derrick Gordon, a sophomore guard for the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball team, decided that he had carried his secret too long, so after speaking with his family, coaches and teammates privately, he told ESPN on Wednesday that he is gay. “I just didn’t want to hide anymore, in any way,” Gordon told ESPN. “I didn’t want…
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Rapper 50 Cent Ordered to Pay $16 Million in Headphone Settlement
Looks like 50 Cent is going to have to fork over $16 million. That’s because the rapper turned mogul was supposed to produce a line of headphones with Sleek Audio but reportedly snagged design secrets from the Florida company and used them to create his own headphones, the Miami Herald reports. According to a recently…
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