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Florida Cops Linked to KKK Are Off the Force
Two members of a Florida town’s police department are off the force after an FBI report allegedly linked them to the Ku Klux Klan, the Orlando Sentinel reports. According to the Sentinel, Fruitland Park Deputy Chief David Borst offered his immediate resignation once the FBI released the report to police Chief Terry Isaacs. Isaacs dismissed…
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Here’s the Atrocious Way George Zimmerman Spent the Last Year
It’s hard to imagine a George Zimmerman-less world. He burst into the American collective consciousness with the welcome and expectation of an acid-filled, busted fire hydrant after his brazen attack in February 2012 on an unsuspecting teenager whose trip to the store for Skittles and iced tea would be his last. On July 13, 2013,…
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Police Use Breast Implants’ Serial Numbers to ID Dead Woman
A Gary, Ind., woman who had been missing since July 3 was found dead in the trunk of an abandoned car, having suffered several stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head, the Lake County (Ind.) Coroner’s Office told the Chicago Sun-Times. The woman, whose body was found Monday, was identified Wednesday as Decarol…
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NC Man Sits in Hot Car to End Hot-Car Deaths
Terry Williams is tired of hearing that children have died after being left in a hot car, so he has taken his fight, and a challenge, to social media. “I’m sitting in the car with the windows rolled up ’cause I want to know how it feels to be left in the car,” the Greensboro,…
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Jerry Sandusky’s Son Tells Oprah His Story of Abuse: ‘At Bedtime, His Ritual Began’
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant coach and convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky, will appear in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey on July 17 in which he reportedly discusses his personal account of sexual abuse he suffered from Sandusky. According to Philly.com, this will be the first television interview…
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Husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Gets 8 Years in Prison
Apollo Nida, husband of Phaedra Parks, the Southern-fried lawyer who stars on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Nida, 35, was also ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution to victims of the stolen-check-and-tax-return scheme in which Nida was…
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NY Mother in Custody After Baby Abandoned on Subway Platform
On Monday around 11:50 a.m., a young mother riding the New York City subway with her 7-month-old baby waited for the subway car to come to a stop at Manhattan’s Columbus Circle station. Once the doors opened, the mother pushed the red-and-white polka-dot stroller that the baby was seated in onto the subway platform. The…
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NJ Girl, 12, Left ‘Brain Dead’ After Shooting, Police Say
Three friends—two girls and one boy—had taken a walk Saturday to their Paterson, N.J., neighborhood store around 8:40 p.m. When they got to the store and realized it was closed, they started their walk home, sharing rides on a scooter. A gunman who was reportedly aiming for someone else opened fire. Genesis Rincon, a 12-year-old…
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Memphis, Tenn., Police Find 8-Year-Old Boy Chained to Backyard Shed
Police in Memphis, Tenn., are investigating a bizarre incident after a child called to report that an 8-year-old sibling was chained up to a backyard shed. When police arrived, they found the boy unharmed but, indeed, chained up. WMC-TV reports that police also found six children ranging in age from 2 to 14 in the…
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Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Leads to More Than $5,400,000 in Donations
The pot of gold at the end of Reading Rainbow is somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.4 million. At the end of May, executive producer and host LeVar Burton launched the Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a Web version of the popular PBS show. He saw its initial goal of $1 million reached just…
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