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Retired Marine Fatally Shot While Trying to Stop an Attempted Robbery, Family Says
A retired Marine lost his life in Philadelphia’s Olney section after his family says he tried to help during an attempted robbery. According to CBS Philadelphia, the victim is identified as 46-year-old Howard White, a disabled veteran. White’s cousin Michelle Gordon described him as a hero who had tried to stop a robbery at the…
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Calif. High Schooler Uses Blackface for ‘Promposal’ 1 Month After Another Student Used a Lynching Reference
It seems that the ghost of promposals is still haunting us, and while a lot of high school students are guilty of doing the utmost, two students at the same California high school went way too far by using blackface and lynching references in their own promposals. Fact: It’s never cute to be racist when…
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Talented High School Junior Has Already Collected 33 Full-Ride Academic and Athletic Scholarship Offers
Some people got it and some people don’t. Seventeen-year-old Jahmir Smith has got it: talented both in academics and on the football field. He is casually racking up full-ride academic and athletic scholarship offers from more than 30 universities across the nation, including all eight Ivy League schools and every major program in his hometown…
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FBI Offers $25,000 Reward for Information Leading to Arrest of Gunman Who Killed Chicago Judge
The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a gunman who shot and killed a Cook County judge outside his Chicago home early Monday morning. Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, was gunned down just before 5 a.m. in what has been described by authorities as a possible…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Police Commanders Reassigned in Probe of Leaked Arrest Video of Jacqueline Craig
Two Fort Worth, Texas, police commanders have been temporarily reassigned while investigators probe who leaked police video and other materials in the brutal arrest of Jacqueline Craig and her daughters by Officer William Martin. According to CBS News, the Fort Worth Police Department launched an internal investigation after Martin’s body-camera video was leaked and his…
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‘You’re Gonna Burn’: Notes With Swastikas Left at Homes, Jewish Center in Calif. Neighborhood
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California has created a task force to look into anti-Semitic notes found at homes and a Jewish center in an Oak Park, Calif., neighborhood over the weekend. The handwritten notes were discovered outside seven homes and the Chabad of Oak Park by residents in the Oak Park community, the…
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Mom of Miss. Infant Who Died in Hot Car Wants Charges Against Father Dropped
The mother of a Mississippi infant who authorities say died after being left in a hot car while in the care of her father has signed an affidavit asking for all charges to be dropped, the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger reports. Shanice Caradine, the mother of 8-month-old Shania Caradine, in the affidavit making her request called…
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Baltimore Rapper Lor Scoota Shot and Killed After Rallying to Stop City Violence
Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as rapper Lor Scoota, was working hard to try to stop violence in his hometown of Baltimore. Tragically, just a short while after leaving a charity basketball game he had hosted to promote such peace, Lor Scoota was shot and killed, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, police…
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Ga. 10th-Grader With Confederate Flag on Backpack Leads to School Lockdown Drill
Rockmart High School in Polk County, Ga., went into a lockdown drill after tensions broke out over a Confederate battle flag on campus, Fox 5 Atlanta reports. It reportedly began when a 10th-grade boy came to school with the infamous flag decorating his backpack. “He got dropped off out of his truck and came down…
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Report: Officer in Tamir Rice Shooting Death Ruled Unfit for Duty in 2012
Before Tim Loehmann—the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice—joined the Cleveland Police Department, he had a brief career with the Independence, Ohio, police, a suburban department that ruled him unfit for police work, Cleveland.com reports. According to the report, a Nov. 29, 2012, letter from the Independence Police Department, kept in Loehmann’s personnel…
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