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  • This Genius Tried to Take His Driver's License Test With a Pound of Marijuana, a Gun in the Car

    Today’s contender for “America’s Most Smartest” (I said what I said) is 22-year-old Reginald D. Wooding Jr., who thought it would be a great idea to take his driver’s license test with a pound of marijuana, a loaded gun, a 30-round magazine and some $15,000 cash in the car he was using. According to WBALTV,…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 8, 2018
  • 'Plastered Peggy' Lists Reasons Why Cop Shouldn't Arrest Her, Claims She's a 'Very Clean, Thoroughbred, White Girl'

    A Bluffton, S.C., woman thought her whiteness would come in a clutch when she was stopped by police after plowing through a stop sign more than 30 miles an hour over the speed limit (allegedly while drunk to top it off) early Saturday morning. The woman, identified by the New York Post as Lauren Elizabeth…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 7, 2018
  • Even Scrubbing Trump's Star Off the Hollywood Walk of Fame Is More Complicated Than It Should Be

    Late Monday, the West Hollywood City Council unanimously passed a resolution to ask the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But as much as I’d love to sip on this delicious, cold brew of petty, apparently, nothing is ever easy and all our dreams are unlikely…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 7, 2018
  • Black Lives Matter Disrupts Wedding of Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Stephon Clark

    One of the officers who fired 10 shots each at Stephon Clark, ultimately killing the young father, was greeted by Black Lives Matter protesters on his wedding day. It may be easy for the unidentified officer to move on with his life, get married, start a family—opportunities that have now been robbed of Clark—but protesters…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 7, 2018
  • 'Black $$$ Matter': Protesters Gather Outside Brooklyn Nail Salon Following Fight Over Botched Eyebrow Wax 

    Dozens of protesters gathered outside of an East Flatbush nail salon in Brooklyn, N.Y., demanding that the business be closed after viral video spread of employees, who are Asian, attacking a black woman with the handle of a broomstick or a mop and even spraying what appears to be acetone nail polish remover The New…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 7, 2018
  • White Driver Who Called Black Motorist 'Monkey,' Swears He's 'Not Racial' Because He Has Biracial Grandkids

    Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, “I can’t be racist because I have mixed family members”… at least that’s what one Pennsylvania man would want you to believe after his life has gone to shit since video of him screaming “monkey” and “nigger” at a black motorist went viral. You know…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 6, 2018
  • Federal Judge Stops New Orleans From Jailing Those Who Fail to Pay Fines, Rules That They Must Have a Chance to Plead Poverty

    Instead of being immediately tossed into jail for failing to pay fines or fees related to whatever legal issues you may have, a federal judge has ruled that anyone who owes money from criminal convictions in New Orleans must have a chance to plead poverty in a “neutral forum,” before being put behind bars for…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 6, 2018
  • Youth Care Worker Accused of Sexually Molesting 8 Children at Government Immigrant Shelter in Mesa, Ariz. 

    A Southwest Key youth-care worker is facing multiple sex offense charges after being accused of molesting at least eight unaccompanied boys over the time span of a year at one of the government youth shelters in Mesa, Ariz. Levian D. Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, is accused of performing oral sex on two of the teens…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 3, 2018
  • How Much Do You Love Your Faves? You Still Can't Beat This 18-Year-Old Who Allegedly Tried to Steal a Plane to Go to Rap Concert

    Listen, I love Beyoncé as much as the next red-blooded person, but after sitting in traffic for a measly two to three hours trying to leave the FedEx Field in Landover, Md., after the On the Run II concert, I was pretty much convinced that I wouldn’t be attending another one of her shows. But…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 3, 2018
  • Alabama Subway Manager Fired After Being Caught on Camera Using Racial Slur; Tries to Frame It as a 'Slip Up'

    My friends, regardless of your race, gender, religion, etc., has the word “nigger” (or any variant thereof), ever just “slipped” out of your mouth even though you hate the word? Asking for myself, because that is exactly what a Birmingham, Ala., Subway manager is claiming after she was captured on video loudly berating a black…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 3, 2018
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