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  • Fla. Teen, 15, Fatally Shot After Shooting Armed Guard With BB Gun

    A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot by a Florida security guard after the teen reportedly shot the armed guard in the face with a BB gun. According to WFTV, security guard Shawn Plain, 19, was charging his cellphone around 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the laundry room of the Willow Glen apartment complex, where he works.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 29, 2016
  • White House, US Capitol on Lockdown After Officer Shot in Visitors Area 

    The Associated Press is reporting that shots have been fired inside the U.S. Capitol, leaving one officer wounded. Workers inside the Capitol have been ushered to safe places inside the Capitol. Both the Capitol and the White House, which was hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll, are on lockdown. According to AP, the officer’s injuries…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 28, 2016
  • Hero: Ala. 10-Year-Old Grabs Wheel, Brings Truck to Stop After Driver Suffers Diabetic Seizure

    Christopher Wheeler, 10, of Montgomery, Ala., was headed to an area scrapyard Thursday with an elderly neighbor, who goes by the name “Mr. Mitch,” when the 70-year-old driver began having a diabetic seizure and lost control of the wheel. “He got sick and he was swerving across the road,” Christopher told WSFA. “He started getting…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 28, 2016
  • Pakistan Bombing: At Least 69 Dead, 341 Injured in Suicide Blast Targeting Christians on Easter Sunday

    At least 69 people were killed and 341 were injured after a suicide blast tore through a Lahore, Pakistan, neighborhood amusement park where Christians and Muslims were out enjoying the weather on Easter Sunday. According to CNN, an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban, Jamat-ul-Ahrar, has claimed responsibility for the attack and also said that it…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 28, 2016
  • Texas College Student, 24, Surprises Grandparents by Paying Off Their Mortgage

    Stefun Darts, 24, of Houston, is a full-time college student who holds down a full-time job and runs a small nonprofit. In the second grade, he made a promise to God that he would pay off his grandparents’ Texas home and help them retire. “A promise I would never break,” Darts, 24, wrote on Facebook. “The…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 28, 2016
  • Duke’s Grayson Allen and Coach K Appear to Be Really Sore Losers

    After Duke suffered an embarrassing loss to Oregon, 82-68, Thursday evening, star Blue Devils player Grayson Allen refused to shake hands with Oregon’s Dillon Brooks, and it appears that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski lectured Brooks about a last-second shot once the game was over. Brooks, a sophomore guard, had 22 points, six assists and five…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2016
  • How Social Media Turned Microsoft’s Teen Chatbot, ‘Tay,’ Into a Nazi-Loving Racist in Less Than a Day

    Well, that went bad fast. On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled Tay, an artificial intelligence “chatbot,” or “chat robot,” that would learn, through social media sites like Twitter, Kik and GroupMe, how to have “normal” conversations. “The more you talk the smarter Tay gets,” Tay’s Twitter profile reads. She was supposed to sound like a typical teenage…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2016
  • Ga. Police Arrest 9 People After Brawl Leaves Teen Dead

    A brawl among a group of Georgia teens left an 18-year-old dead and nine people arrested on murder charges. A fight that began between two teenage girls quickly spiraled into an all-out brawl as several young men wielding bats and pipes began attacking each other. Demajhay Bell, 18, who was believed to have been an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2016
  • Boxer Adrien Broner Accused of Violent Robbery; Warrant Issued for His Arrest

    Junior welterweight world-titleholder Adrien Broner faces felony assault and robbery charges after he allegedly pistol-whipped a man to whom he’d lost a large sum of money while gambling at a Cincinnati bowling alley. Broner, 26, who is scheduled to defend his title April 1, has two active warrants for his arrest related to the Jan.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2016
  • Photo of Coffee Shop Workers Praying With Recent Widow Goes Viral

    A recently widowed woman was in a drive-thru coffee line at Dutch Bros. Coffee in Vancouver, Wash., when she began to fall apart. Workers at the coffee shop gave her coffee for free and then offered to pray for her. A driver witnessed the scene and posted a photo to Facebook that has now gone…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 24, 2016
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