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New Details Emerge in Prince’s Death Investigation
While rumors continue to swirl around exactly how music legend Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, died, CNN is reporting that police investigators found opioid prescription drugs in his possession and inside his Minnesota home. CNN notes that the drugs found on the late singer are commonly used to treat pain, but the exact name of…
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Wannabe Tulsa, Okla., Cop, 73, Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Death of Eric Harris
A volunteer Tulsa County, Okla., sheriff’s officer who shot and killed an unarmed man as he ran away has been found guilty of second-degree manslaughter. Robert Bates, 73, was an insurance broker who wanted badly to be a cop. According to the New York Daily News, he purchased “new cars for the department’s violent crime…
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Mizzou Professor Fired Over Protest Incident: ‘This Is All About Racial Politics. I’m a White Lady; I’m an Easy Target’
Melissa Click, the former University of Missouri media professor who rose to infamy after her tirade against a reporter during a racial protest on the campus last fall, now believes that she was fired because she is white. “This is all about racial politics. I’m a white lady; I’m an easy target,” Click told the…
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Ga. Man Says He Was Beaten for Allegedly Stealing a Tomato He Says He Purchased
An Atlanta man claims that he was severely beaten by an off-duty police officer working as security for Wal-Mart and spent three days in jail after he was accused of stealing a tomato that he had purchased. Tyrone Carnegay told WSB-TV that the security guard confronted him during the October 2014 incident as he tried…
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Add Riding a Bike to Growing List of Things Black People Can’t Do
Add riding a bicycle in Tampa, Fla., to the growing list of everyday activities that black people can’t do. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, which released findings Tuesday from an investigation into the Tampa Police Department’s bike-ticketing practices, some 80 percent of all bicycling tickets issued were made out to African Americans, 10…
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Ga. State University Student Missing After Shared Uber Ride
The last time Georgia State University student Monique Priester spoke with her mother was Friday evening. ” ‘Mom, I saw you called,’ ” the 21-year-old told her mother, Jacqueline VanLoo-Al Kush, in their last conversation around 6:15 p.m. Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “‘Everything OK?’ I was like, ‘Yeah. Where are you?’ “ The 21-year-old…
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Mo. Boy, 9, Raises Over $7,000 Selling Lemonade to Pay for His Own Adoption
When Tristan Jacobson was just 5, his mother left him on the stoop of a Springfield, Mo., homeless shelter in 17-degree weather and went back to her addiction. A year later, Donnie Davis and her husband, Jimmy, onetime friends of the boy’s mother, took Tristan in, and he has stayed with them ever since. Now…
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Watch: Draymond Green Shuts Down Reporter Who Asked Stupid Question About the Floods in Houston
Draymond Green had just helped his Golden State Warriors beat the Houston Rockets to take a 3-1 lead without Stephen Curry, who was down with a knee injury. So Green really wasn’t having it when it came to stupid questions. A reporter wanted him to talk about the connection between Warriors wins and the floods…
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