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‘Affluenza’ Teen to Serve 720 Days in Prison
Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who used the now infamous “affluenza” defense after a 2013 drunken driving crash killed four people and seriously injured two others, is set to serve nearly two years in prison. Couch was sentenced in April, but a judge allowed his legal team to prepare a defense against the order. On…
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George Zimmerman Is Auctioning the Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman is auctioning the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, the overzealous former neighborhood watchman, has listed the Kel-Tec PF-9 9 mm on a gun broker website, CNBC reports. Zimmerman contends that he used the gun to stop a “brutal attack” by unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, killing the teen. “The firearm…
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Mich. Teen Graduating From College With 2 Degrees, Still Hasn’t Finished High School
West Michigan teen Noel Ramos has two college degrees and hasn’t even graduated from high school. “I was just taking college classes the first semester. Like, I didn’t plan on graduating at all,” Noel, a sophomore at Gull Lake High School who began her college career at age 13, told WWMT. Noel, now 15, entered…
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Female West Point Cadets Who Raised Fists in Photo Won’t Be Punished
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has announced that the female cadets who were photographed with their fists raised will not face any punishment for their actions despite cries from those who believed the move showed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. “Based upon available evidence, none of the participants, through their actions,…
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Ga. Police Looking for 5 People Who Got Into an All-Out Brawl Inside Restaurant on Mother’s Day
Police are looking for four men and one woman in Atlanta believed to have caused a full-on brawl inside a Japanese restaurant on Mother’s Day. “This is the best Mother’s Day ever. Very entertaining. [We got] good food and good entertainment,” 14-year-old Sailyn Barlow, who was inside the Kiku Japanese restaurant when the brawl took…
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Report: Ray Lewis and Cris Carter Out at ESPN, Network Hires Randy Moss
If the rumors are true, ESPN is getting rid of two Hall of Fame football commentators in Ray Lewis and Cris Carter and adding Carter’s onetime teammate Randy Moss. According to the Big Lead, the network, which is already losing host Skip Bayless to Fox and Monday Night Football announcer Mike Tirico to NBC, is…
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Ferguson, Mo.’s New Police Chief Was Ready to Retire; Then Ferguson Exploded and He Knew the City Needed Him
Ferguson, Mo., swore in its first African-American police chief Monday, and although the new chief had been ready for retirement, after seeing the unrest caused in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, he said that he felt a calling to take this job and help restore order. “My plan was to retire in September and…
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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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