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Package Bomb, Believed to Be Destined for Austin, Detonates at Texas FedEx Facility
Updated Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 3:07 p.m. EDT: Apparently there is no second device after all. On Tuesday morning, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that there was a second, unexploded device found at the Schertz, Texas, FedEx location after a first bomb went off. A spokesperson for the department later backtracked, saying that…
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2 Students Injured, Gunman Dead After Shooting at Maryland High School
Updated Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 2:09 p.m. EDT: The gunman involved in the shooting that left two Maryland high schoolers injured early Tuesday morning has been identified as 17-year-old Austin Wyatt Rollins. Austin, a student at Great Mills High School, shot a 16-year-old female student before he was shot and killed while exchanging gunfire with…
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9-Year-Old Boy Shot and Killed 14-Year-Old Sister Over Video Game, Police Say
A teenage girl was shot and killed by her younger brother over what police believe to have been an argument over video games. According to the Clarion Ledger, 14-year-old Dijonae White, a student at Tupelo Middle School in Mississippi, was identified as the victim. Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said that Dijonae would not give her brother…
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5 Years After the Unmarked Graves of 1,000 Enslaved People Were Uncovered Near a Shell Refinery, Descendants Will Be Able to Pay Their Respects
Some five years ago, the unmarked graves of as many as 1,000 enslaved people who were forced to work in the fields of plantations in Ascension Parish, La., were uncovered by an archaeologist working for Shell Convent Refinery. The discovery was heralded by one expert as among the largest unknown burial grounds discovered in the…
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Black Panther Wraps Up 1st Month With $605 Million Domestic Total, Making It the 7th Film to Cross $600 Million Mark
Black Panther continues to be the best thing to ever grace the big screen, rounding out the end of the month by topping the weekend box office for the fifth-straight weekend. According to Forbes, that officially makes Black Panther the first movie since Avatar (2010) to top the weekend box office for five straight weekends.…
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4th Package Explodes in Austin, Texas, Leaving 2 Injured
Another package exploded in Austin, Texas, Sunday, leaving two men injured and putting the city further on edge. It marked the fourth time this month that a package left somewhere exploded, as Austin police continued to work with the public in investigating three previous deadly explosions. According to the Washington Post, the fourth package bomb…
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North Carolina Teen Pulled Off of School Bus, Left at School Alone for Showing Too Much Shoulder
A North Carolina mom is furious after her teenage daughter was pulled off of a school bus and left at school alone for wearing “inappropriate clothing” … that showed her clavicle. That’s right: A 16-year-old girl was forbidden from riding the school bus home, all because she was showing what the administrator deemed too much…
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America Is Not Completely Trash After All: DeAndre Harris Found Not Guilty of Assaulting White Supremacist at Charlottesville, Va., Rally
On Friday, the American criminal-justice system actually got something right; as it turns out, DeAndre Harris, the black man who was brutally beaten during the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right white supremacist rally, was found not guilty of assaulting a white nationalist. Last year, Harris, who was counterprotesting the infamous rally, was cornered and attacked…
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Tennessee Has Fined Residents Almost $100,000 for Braiding Hair Without a License … Seriously
Getting your hair braided is something I’ve always taken for granted. You grab your bundles (if you want added hair); you go to your favorite salon, family member, friend, friend of a friend or acquaintance; you may or may not drop some coin; and you walk away feeling like a million bucks. But apparently, in…
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Nike Investigating Inappropriate Workplace Behavior as Top Executive Resigns
Nike will be doing some rearranging of its management team after the company acknowledged that it had received complaints about inappropriate workplace behavior and that one of its top executives has resigned. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nike’s No. 2 executive, brand President Trevor Edwards, who was seen as the potential successor of CEO…
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