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Jury Selection Begins in Aaron Hernandez’s Double-Murder Trial
Aaron Hernandez will again be facing the music in court, this time for a 2012 Boston double homicide. Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday, with prosecutors and defense lawyers picking from a pool of some 600 candidates. Hernandez, a former NFL star who played with the New England Patriots, was already convicted of first-degree…
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Chicago Activist Jedidiah Brown Doing ‘OK’ After Apparent Suicide Attempt: Report
Chicago activist Jedidiah Brown is reportedly doing well after an apparent suicide attempt in the city’s downtown late Sunday. Brown was transported to the University of Chicago Hospital Sunday night after police were able to talk him down after he posted a live video to Facebook, saying that he planned to kill himself, DNAinfo Chicago…
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Wrongfully Convicted Ind. Man Says Pence ‘Abandoned Me’
Keith Cooper is still getting used to being an officially pardoned man. It’s only been a day, after all, since new Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb removed the wrongfully placed stain from his record, a stain put there because of a violent armed robbery Cooper did not commit, but for which he spent nearly a decade…
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4 Suspects Plead Not Guilty in Chicago Facebook Live Torture Case
The four people accused of torturing a white, mentally disabled man in an attack that was streamed to Facebook Live, drawing outrage across the nation, pleaded not guilty at their arraignment before a Cook County, Ill., judge, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Tanishia Covington, 24; Brittany Covington, 18; Jordan Hill, 18; and Tesfaye Cooper, 18,…
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Ga. Mom: Son Expelled After She Questioned ‘American History’ Display During Black History Month
It seems as if #PenceBlackHistory is catching on in the schools. On a serious note, a Georgia mother says that her son was kicked out of school after she questioned an “American history” display that featured white historical figures, along with black history icons, during Black History Month, WSBTV reports. Kendra Molden, of Lithia Springs,…
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Mich. University Under Scrutiny for Anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day Card Handed Out on Campus
It’s almost as if these racists think it’s impossible to be “funny” or “cute” or “original” without being … racist. And there was nothing funny, cute or original about an anti-Semitic Valentine’s Day card that was produced during a Republican-group meeting on the campus of Central Michigan University and then given to a pair of…
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Ky. Deputy Sheriff Suspended After Racist, Islamophobic Facebook Post
Racists never learn, do they? A Boyd County, Ky., deputy sheriff was given the “maximum disciplinary action” after posting a racist, Islamophobic message to Facebook. Boyd County Sheriff Bobby Woods confirmed that the problematic post came from a deputy but declined to name the deputy involved, the Associated Press reports. The deputy was suspended for…
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Miss. Considers Firing Squad, Electrocution and Gas Chamber as Execution Methods
Mississippi lawmakers are pushing forth a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and the gas chamber as methods of execution in case a court blocks the use of the drugs that are used in lethal injections, the Associated Press reports. The bill, Mississippi House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson said, is a response to…
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Emmett Till’s Family Calls for New Investigation Into 1955 Murder
Relatives of Emmett Till—the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, triggering the civil rights movement—are asking for the teen’s case to be reinvestigated after a key witness admitted to lying about the teen’s alleged words and actions before his brutal murder. Two of Emmett’s cousins, Wheeler Parker and Deborah Watts, said…
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Parents Plan to File Lawsuit Against School After Daughter Comes Home With ‘Loser’ Written on Forehead
An Iowa family is outraged and dissatisfied with the response from their 10-year-old daughter’s school after she came home last week with “loser” scrawled across her forehead and a mustache and other markings drawn on her face. The child, identified as Raeann Long, reportedly cried to her parents as she explained that one girl held…
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