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Baltimore Man Fatally Shoots Neighbors Over Parking Space, Police Say
A North Baltimore man is facing 17 charges after he allegedly shot and killed two of his neighbors over a parking-space dispute, police said, according to the Baltimore Sun. Charges against Dennis Padgett, 34, include first-degree murder, assault and possessing a firearm with a felony conviction. He is currently being held at the Baltimore City…
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Wrongfully Convicted Brothers Win $17,000,000 Settlement From NYC
A Brooklyn, N.Y., family has finally received compensation from New York City for the two decades three brothers spent in prison for murders they did not commit, receiving a total of $17 million from the city, the city comptroller confirmed Monday, the New York Post reports. Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Daryl Austin—half-brothers who share…
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Va. Family Killed in Crash With an 18-Wheeler
Five members of a Virginia family, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in a tragic accident Saturday morning after colliding with a tractor trailer en route to Maryland, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, Travis Straton, 25; his girlfriend, Regina Ayres, 24; and Ayres’ two children, 7-year-old Jordan Ayres and…
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2 Tuskegee Airmen Die in Los Angeles the Same Day at Age 91
Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the renowned all-black group of military pilots who fought bravely in World War II, passed away the same day, both at the age of 91, the Associated Press reports. Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey, longtime friends who had enlisted in the legendary group together, died Jan. 5 in their…
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Diversity Targeted in ‘White Genocide’ Billboard Near Birmingham, Ala.
Commuters driving along Interstate Highway 59, located near Birmingham, Ala., are once again being greeted by a billboard bearing a racially charged message steeped in segregationist belief, AL.com reports. It is the second time in less than a year that such a billboard has popped up in the area. This latest one reads, “Diversity means chasing…
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Wish You Could Get That Text Back? There’s an App for That
We’ve all been there. Staring down in horror at our phones at a text we did not mean to send but did anyway for reasons ranging from carelessness to extreme anger to intoxication. Or maybe a friend thought it was funny to prank us and sent the unsendable message as a joke. Regardless of the…
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Obama to Propose 2-Year Tuition-Free Community College Program
Forget about making education simply “affordable.” President Barack Obama is planning to announce a program to make the first two years of community college free “for those willing to work for it,” as he revealed in a recent video message made while he was aboard Air Force One, which was posted to the White House’s Facebook…
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Md. Dump Truck Driver Charged With Attempted Murder in Attack on Police
Police have charged a Maryland dump truck driver with attempted murder, saying that he purposely hit two Prince George’s County police cruisers with his dump truck Wednesday morning, WUSA9 reports. Gene Thomas Brandon Jr. is currently being held without bond on two counts of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault. According to the…
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Washington State Teen Pleads Guilty to Murder of WWII Vet
A Washington-state teen is pleading guilty to the murder of a World War II veteran whom he attacked in 2013 during what he claims was a drug deal, the New York Post reports. Kenan Adams-Kinard, 17, changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday in Spokane County Superior Court on his charge of first-degree murder in the…
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Watch: Cleveland Releases Footage of Police Tackling Tamir Rice’s Sister, 14
Cleveland authorities have released longer video footage showing the aftermath of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s shooting death, during which his 14-year-old sister can be seen running to his side, only to be tackled by one of the Cleveland officers, the Northeast Ohio Media Group reports. “This has to be the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen,” attorney…
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