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Former Marine Attacked and Taunted With Racial Remarks in Wyo.
A former Marine from Montana suffered a concussion and a broken facial bone and had his eye swollen shut after, he says, two men made racial remarks and attacked him outside a bar in northern Wyoming May 7. Twenty-five-year-old Clayton Denny, who is half African American and half Chippewa Cree, said that he had just…
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Watch: Houston Police Looking for Drivers in Road Rage Brawl
A driving incident in Houston quickly turned into road rage as a woman confronted two men in a car and then things got physical. Police investigators told KHOU that the incident began after one vehicle cut off another. When the vehicles were stopped at a light, a passenger inside a black truck got out and…
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Missing Ivy League Student Found Safe; Rented Apartment in Brooklyn, NY: Report
Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who’d been missing since May 5, was found Monday after she reactivated her bank card with her new address. According to the New York Daily News, Kidd had changed her cellphone and bank account numbers and pulled down her Facebook page before disappearing earlier this month. Kidd, a…
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Calif. 2-Year-Old to Be Given 1 More Week on Life Support, Judge Rules
A California family has been given a one-week extension by a judge to keep their son, 2-year-old Israel Stinson, on life support. Israel was declared brain-dead after an asthma attack left him without oxygen for 40 minutes April 1, CBS News reports. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento, Calif., ruled that the family could…
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NJ Girl, 3, Mauled by Pit Bulls
The two pit bull mixes were supposed to be in the basement, but somehow they escaped and began attacking 3-year-old Janaya Everett. “The baby was laying on the floor bloody with her scalp all messed up, and just a mess … horrible, horrible thing,” Dwyane Harper told ABC 7. Harper said that he was outside…
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Report: Missing Ivy League Sophomore Nayla Kidd Changed Bank Account and Cellphone Numbers Before She Disappeared
Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who has been missing since leaving a May 5 dorm party, is now believed to have taken her Facebook page down and changed her cellphone and bank account numbers before her disappearance, police sources tiold the New York Daily News. “This is not Nayla,” her mother, La Creis…
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Photo of NC Cop and Autistic Teen Talking Goes Viral
This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without permission. School officials immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which dispatched Officer Tim Purdy. When the officer arrived, he found the teen sitting by…
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‘Racist McShootFace’ Pushes Bidding for Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin to $65,000,000
A user with the screen name “Racist McShootFace” has pushed the bidding for the firearm owned by George Zimmerman and used to kill unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., to $65 million, the Daily Mail reports. As news of the auction spread, several people hijacked the auction site posting bids under phony screen names…
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Atlanta Woman Who Fought Off 2 Armed Carjackers: ‘I Forgive You’
Jasmine Warren wasn’t going to let two armed men steal her car. As she walked out of an Atlanta Exxon gas station around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, two men wearing hoodies jumped out and attempted to take he car, but Warren fought back. At one point, one of the men pointed a gun at Warren and…
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Susannah Mushatt Jones, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died Thursday at the age of 116. Jones, who had been ill for 10 days, died at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she had lived for the last 30 years, the Associated Press reports. Her death leaves Emma Morano, a few months younger…
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