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Chicago Teen Charged With Mom’s Murder in Indonesia Can Use $1,560,000 Trust Fund to Pay Lawyers
Cook County Judge Neil Cohen ruled Friday that Heather Mack, 19, can access a $1.56 million trust fund to hire a defense attorney as she fights charges in Indonesia that she assisted in the premeditated murder of her mother, the Chicago Tribune reports. Three months before Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s violent death while vacationing on the…
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Video May Hold Clues to Death of NJ Man Found in Car Trunk
Police investigators are hoping to question an unidentified man last seen wearing a blue coat with a fur-lined hood who was caught on surveillance video leaving the luxury vehicle of a slain 24-year-old New Jersey man, according to the New York Daily News. Video shows the man leaving the car of the victim, Jordan Johnson,…
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Bill Cosby Has Jokes for Colorado
Despite protests planned over a spate of sexual assault allegations against him, beleaguered comedian Bill Cosby plans to perform Saturday on a Denver stage, one day after a successful turn at another Colorado venue, the Associated Press reports. Cosby, 77, has two shows scheduled in Denver, where protesters are expected outside the downtown venue, the…
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Oscars President Answers Hollywood Diversity Criticism
The first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday denied that Hollywood has a diversity problem, describing the dearth of color among nominees as happenstance, the Associated Press reports. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, responding for the first time to the controversy, told the news outlet that the all-white acting slate…
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Faith and Service Motivate Notre Dame’s 2010 Valedictorian
When Katie Washington-Cole was growing up in Gary, Ind., with its jagged industrial skyline, she dreamed of following in her parents’ footsteps and entering the medical field. Her father was a physician and her mother was a nurse. Both encouraged academic achievement and taught young Katie, among other things, the importance of giving back to…
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Black Hollywood Prepares to Shine at Golden Globe Awards 2015
Black Hollywood is prepared to shine at tonight’s 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Kevin Hart is scheduled to be among several presenters. Ava DuVernay, who directed the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma and is the first black woman to be nominated for a best director…
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Watch: Ind. Couple Arrested After Filming 1-Year-Old Playing With Gun
A 22-year-old Evansville, Ind., mother has been charged with child neglect after a video surfaced of her 1-year-old daughter playing with a handgun and shouting “pow” to emulate the sound of gunfire, the Daily Mail reports. The mother, Toni Wilson, a former cashier at McDonald’s, and her partner, Michael Barnes, 19, were arrested after police discovered…
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Chicago Man Accused of Killing Mom for Telling Him to ‘Find a Girlfriend’
A 26-year-old Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing his 54-year-old mother after she reportedly put him down and told him to find a girlfriend, the Chicago Tribune reports. Andre Brown was charged with first-degree murder last Sunday in the death of his mother, Damita Collins, who was found dead by her husband, Brown’s…
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Top Cop Says NYPD Work ‘Slowdown’ Is Over
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has declared that a work “slowdown” by officers that arose amid a rift with Mayor Bill de Blasio is over, New York magazine reports. “The slowdown is over in the sense that the numbers are starting to go back up again,” Bratton said, according to the magazine. “I…
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Watch: Anderson Cooper Corrects Colleague Who Called French Terrorist an African American
CNN’s Anderson Cooper corrected colleague Chris Cuomo’s incorrect description of a suspect as African American in one of two hostage situations that unfolded Friday in France, Mediaite reports, exhibiting an awareness that is rarely seen on television or cable news. Both men, who are white, were reporting on events from Paris about noon Eastern time,…
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