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Freddie Gray Died 1 Year Ago; Here Is What We Know About His Case
It’s been a year since Freddie Gray died. On April 12, 2015, Baltimore police dragged the 25-year-old into a police van like a broken tree branch. His legs weren’t working. They trailed behind him like kite tails. Inside the van, he would fall into a coma. He was taken to a trauma center, where he…
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Trump Watch: The Donald Confuses 9/11 With 7-Eleven on Eve of NY Primary
Maybe Donald Trump should have stopped by a 7-Eleven to grab a cup of coffee before his Buffalo, N.Y., rally Monday. That way he would have been alert enough not to confuse the convenience store with 9/11. CNN obtained video of the blunder in which the GOP front-runner accidentally refers to “9/11” as “7-Eleven” on…
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Texas Pastor Says Whole Foods Employee Wrote Homophobic Slur on Cake
An openly gay pastor says he ordered a cake from a Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, that was only to have the phrase “Love Wins” written on it. When he returned to pick up the dessert, he says, he didn’t notice that the words written on the cake were actually, “Love Wins [F—].” In…
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Mich. Police Arrest Cross-Dressing Bank Robber: Report
Police have arrested a 33-year-old Michigan man and charged him with bank robbery after he reportedly dressed up as a woman and robbed a bank. According to the Detroit Free Press, around 9:20 a.m. April 4, a man dressed as a woman entered a PNC Bank in Genoa Township, Mich., and announced the robbery. The…
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Washington Post Series on Police Shootings, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Win Pulitzers
The Washington Post series “Fatal Force,” which took a hard look at the number of deadly police shootings throughout the country last year, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton were two of the big winners when the 100th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday around 3 p.m. EDT. Wesley Lowery, national reporter for the Post, who…
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12-Year-Old Cousin of Slain Teen Obama Hailed as Hero Fatally Shot
In December, 15-year-old Zaevion Dobson died shielding three friends from gunshots. The Knoxville, Tenn., native and Fulton High School football player was hailed as a hero by President Barack Obama. On Saturday, Zaevion’s 12-year-old cousin, Jajuan Latham, died of a gunshot to the head shortly after he attended a basketball game held to honor his slain…
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Woman Pretending to Be Pregnant Caught Smuggling Cocaine: Report
A 41-year-old mother of three was arrested after she attempted to smuggle 1.72 kilograms of cocaine into Nigeria from Dubai, authorities say. According to the Daily Mail, Dorothy Onyekasi was on a flight from Dubai when a screening of passengers was conducted. Onyekasi was arrested at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, after authorities…
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Watch: Disturbing Video Shows NC Hospital Volunteer Turn Into Demon
A female volunteer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina went from 0 to 100 real quick. It is unclear what prompted the encounter between the enraged hospital volunteer and a father, Isaiah Baskins, who was at the facility with his two children and posted video of the incident to YouTube. According to…
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Ga. Mom Believed She Had 2 Choices: Let School Paddle Her 5-Year-Old Son or Go to Jail
A Georgia mother says she was faced with an impossible choice: Let her 5-year-old son get paddled by the school principal or the child would be suspended, which she says would have landed her in jail. Shana Marie Perez told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she had been arrested two weeks prior on truancy charges after…
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Escaped Texas Inmate Found in Girlfriend’s Dishwasher
He almost made a clean getaway. East Texas police say they found escaped inmate Wesley Evans, 20, inside his girlfriend’s dishwasher. Evans was wearing only his boxers and the handcuffs that had been placed on him shortly before he fled Christus Jasper Memorial Hospital around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, KTRE reports. Records obtained by the news…
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