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Family Members of SC Church Massacre Victims Upset With Donation Payout
The families of the nine people killed in the mass shooting inside a Charleston, S.C., church last year aren’t pleased with the distribution of donations the church has received since the June 17 shooting. The wife of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor who was…
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Cold War: Russian Company Makes ‘Little Obama’ Chocolate-Flavored Ice Cream Bars
A Russian ice cream company has started selling frozen chocolate ice cream bars called Obamka, or “Little Obama.” The outside packaging shows a little brown-skinned boy wearing a yellow shirt and a hoop earring and holding an ice cream, the Moscow Times reports. Despite obvious tension between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin,…
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Muslim Calif. High School Student Misidentified as ‘Isis Phillips’ in Yearbook
Bayan Zehlif is a Muslim high school student at Los Osos High School in California, and like most high school students, she was excited to get her yearbook. When she turned to the page that held her photo, she was shocked to see that she had been identified as “Isis Phillips.” “I am extremely saddened,…
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UAB Football Player Declared Brain-Dead After Being Shot
University of Alabama at Birmingham running back Gregory Bryant, found shot in South Florida, has been declared brain-dead, police say. According to the Associated Press, Bryant, 21, was driving on Interstate 95 when he was shot. He was found around 4:45 a.m. Saturday. Passenger Maurice Grover, 25, was hospitalized with minor injuries. West Palm Beach,…
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The Wire: The Ultimate ‘Where Are They Now?’
In June 2002, when HBO debuted The Wire, no one knew what was happening. No one knew that the show was a five-part story about not only the people but also the city of Baltimore, told through all of the channels that help make its history: season 1, the drug game and the police force;…
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Pittsburgh Kindergarten Teacher Arrested After Allegedly Pinning Student to Floor With Chair
A Pittsburgh kindergarten teacher is facing charges after allegedly pushing a student and then pulling a chair out from under the child and putting the chair on top of the student to keep her on the ground. The girl’s offense: reportedly throwing a piece of paper to the floor after arguing with another student about…
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Ind. Man Posed as Millionaire and Gave Girlfriend Stolen SUV and Home: Report
Gregory D. Harris of Indiana got his girlfriend a BMW SUV and the house of her dreams. Only problem, police say, is that the SUV was stolen and the house wasn’t his—it was a home listed for sale—but Harris and his unknowing girlfriend moved in anyway. According to court documents viewed by IndyStar, in mid-April,…
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Report: NYPD Chief Accused of Chasing and Sleeping With ‘Pregnant, Married’ Women
A recently retired New York City Police Department officer is accusing a police chief of “sleeping with married girls” and other subordinates, claims that a source close to the chief strongly denies, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, a bitter case of she said, he said broke out after former cop…
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