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Texas Father Arrested in Connection With the Deaths of a Lesbian Couple
On Wednesday, authorities arrested a Texas man in connection with the deaths of two women, one of whom was his daughter. According to Lone Star Q, James Larry Cosby was charged with evidence tampering. Cosby was allegedly “not happy” about his daughter Britney Cosby’s relationship with girlfriend Crystal Jackson. Britney’s body, along with that of her…
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Frauds Try to Get Attorney General Eric Holder’s Tax Refund
Two Georgia men were caught trying to get U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s tax refund, the Wall Street Journal reports. Holder wasn’t the only person targeted by Yafait Tadesse and Eyaso Abebe, who somehow got a hold of Holder’s private information, including his Social Security number, and filed a tax return in his name. According to…
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Senate Makes Bipartisan Deal to Extend Long-Term Jobless Benefits
U.S. senators have reached a bipartisan deal that should allow them to extend federal benefits to the long-term unemployed for five months, CNN reports. Five Republicans have reportedly signed on to the bill, all but assuring that the $10 billion measure should pass the Democratic Senate with ease. The cost of the bill is expected…
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Texas Father Shoots 17-Year-Old Boy in Daughter’s Room
A Spring, Texas, father shot and killed a 17-year-old boy whom his daughter had apparently sneaked into her bedroom. The dad allegedly thought he was an intruder, KHOU-TV reports. According to investigators, the unidentified man’s 16-year-old daughter had brought Johran McCormick to her room in the middle of the night. Her younger brother, who had…
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Man Dies 2 Weeks After Being Pronounced Dead
The Mississippi man who was erroneously pronounced dead two weeks ago, but began kicking inside the body bag at the funeral home, passed away on Thursday, a coroner said, Reuters reports. “I think he’s gone this time,” nephew Eddie Hester told a local television station. Walter Williams, 78, had a brush with death a mere…
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Maryland Mall Shooter Was Obsessed With Columbine
The 19-year-old gunman who killed two people at Columbia Mall in Maryland in January was fascinated by the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado—to the point of dressing like one of those gunmen, the Associated Press reports. Investigators say they found thousands of searches on Darion Aguilar’s computer relating to mass murder, school shootings, guns…
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Tyson Beckford’s Nephew Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder in DUI Crash
Domonic Whilby, the 23-year-old nephew of model Tyson Beckford, now faces possible life imprisonment for a drunken February crash that resulted in the death of veteran New York City bus driver William Pena, the Daily News reports. Whilby’s charges were upgraded on Wednesday at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing. The indictment now includes murder, aggravated…
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Rep. Charlie Rangel Calls Building Explosion Harlem’s 9/11
It’s Harlem’s own 9/11. That’s how Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) would describe the Wednesday building explosion in his home district that stunned the public, Politico reports. “I’ve never had anything this horrific that’s happened in my community since I’ve been in Washington,” Rangel told an NBC affiliate in New York, as news continued to break…
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Oxford Tips a Hat to Harvard in ‘I, Too, Am Oxford’ Project
The black students at Harvard seem to be on to something. Students of color at Oxford University in the United Kingdom have launched their own social media campaign, “I, Too, Am Oxford,” highlighting things that have been said or suggested to them. Dozens of photos have already been added to the Tumblr page, showing students…
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Frank Ocean Cuts Chipotle a Big Check, Tells the Company to Shove Off
Chipotle may have won some big bucks … but the restaurant chain also garnered singer Frank Ocean’s irritation along with it. According to TMZ, Ocean coughed up $212,500 after the company sued him, but he didn’t exactly do it graciously, posting a photo of the check on Tumblr with the memo “F—k off” scrawled on…
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