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Aaron Hernandez Involved in Alleged Gang-Related Prison Brawl
Aaron Hernandez seems to be adjusting to prison life, allegedly getting involved in an in-prison brawl in an apparent attempt to “show he’s down with the Bloods,” People magazine reports. The former New England Patriot is just about a month into his life sentence for the murder of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, who was a semipro…
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Mom Takes Deceased Son’s Place in Graduation After Deadly Post-Prom Car Crash
Aaron Dunigan died in a post-prom car crash before he got the chance to walk across the stage with his fellow graduates from Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, Ill., Wednesday. His grieving mother, Katherine Jackson, however, was determined to see her son’s academic accomplishments through, so she donned the late teen’s cap…
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Missing Clark Atlanta University Student Found Safe in Ill.
Updated Thursday, May 21, 4:20 p.m. EDT: Clark Atlanta University student Alexis Jones-Rhodes, who had been missing since Monday, has been found safe in Illinois, WBS-TV reports. Authorities say that there was no foul play involved in her sudden disapperance, which occurred while the 22-year-old was supposed to be on her way to her graduation. …
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Chicago Gunman to 7-Year-Old Before Shooting Him: ‘What You Be About?’
Seven-year-old Elijah Dace was walking home from school Wednesday with his brother and sister in the Morgan Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side when the trio were ambushed by two gunmen who came out of an alley, with one of them yelling, “What you be about?” before opening fire at the children, police say, according…
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NYC Motorman Suspended for Breaking Rule to Get Medical Help for Trainee Who Collapsed: Report
A New York City transit employee says he was only thinking about getting medical aid for a trainee who had collapsed and begun spitting up blood, when he apparently broke a rule while doing so. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority viewed the actions he took to help the trainee as dangerous and suspended the subway motorman…
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Female Inmates Raped and Abused by Rikers Island Guards, Lawsuit Claims
Female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City are accusing seven correction officers of repeated rape and sexual abuse over a two-year period in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society, NBC New York reports. Two of those inmates who were in pretrial custody claim that they were…
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Detroit Teacher Donates Kidney to 18-Year-Old Student
On Tuesday, one Detroit high school senior returned to classes with one special gift: a kidney, donated by one of her teachers, and thus a new lease on life, the Detroit News reports. A’Ja Booth was welcomed back to West Side Academy in style, walking down a red carpet into the school gym, where 10…
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Captain America: Off-Duty Army Captain Pulls Man From Burning Car
Call him Captain America. Of course, Steve Voglezon is not a comic superhero come to life. But he is a real-life captain in the U.S. Army, and he is also pretty heroic: He rescued two people from a burning vehicle in the aftermath of a car accident in Chatham County, N.C., ABC News reports. According…
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Ga. School Nurse to 11-Year-Old Student: ‘I’m Going to F–k You Up’
A Georgia school nurse is being accused of cursing and using a racial slur against an 11-year-old in the school cafeteria, 11 Alive reports. Witness statements given by six children and three adults described the explosive confrontation between Beverly Barnes, a nurse at Mundy’s Mill Middle School in Jonesboro, and 11-year-old Jason Ezzard, who had been…
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The Tamir Rice Case: What We Know
It’s been some 179 days since the Nov. 22, 2014, shooting of Tamir Rice by a Cleveland police officer. In less than two seconds, an officer gunned down Tamir after a toy gun he was playing with was mistaken for a real weapon. Samaria Rice has lived without her 12-year-old son for six months, and…
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