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  • #WalterScott: Lone Juror Appears to Be Holdout in Guilty Verdict 

    Updated, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 2 p.m. EST: One juror in the Walter Scott murder trial apparently refuses to vote for a guilty verdict, thereby deadlocking the jury in the high-profile murder case. The juror, identified only as a 50-year-old male, told the judge Friday that he could not “with good conscience approve a guilty verdict” against…

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  • Suspected Pharmacy Burglars Nabbed for Stealing Cough Syrup With GPS Tracker

    Two men suspected of a series of pharmacy burglaries this year were recently caught by police after allegedly stealing a bottle of cough syrup that had a GPS tracker inside it. Police in Tustin, Calif., had been trying to figure out who was behind a half-dozen pharmacy burglaries this year. Lt. Robert Wright of the…

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  • City of Flint Joins State of Mich. in Fight Against Mandatory Water Delivery

    The city of Flint has joined the state of Michigan in the fight against a federal court order requiring door-to-door delivery of bottled water to residents. Lawyers for the city filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday saying the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson is “overbroad,”…

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  • Duke Fan Holds Sign Mocking Flint, Mich., Water Crisis at Basketball Game Against MSU

    Sports fans are notorious for making signs to mock their opponents during games, but a Duke fan took the tradition too far Tuesday night. The Blue Devils hosted the Michigan State Spartans in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., and a student sitting in the Cameron Crazies student section…

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  • Doctor Who Made Racist Comments About Michelle Obama to Lose Nonpaid Faculty Appointment

    The University of Colorado’s School of Medicine is cutting ties with a faculty member who made a racist remark about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook. Dr. Michelle Herren, who works at Denver Health Medical Center, holds a nonpaid faculty appointment at the CU School of Medicine and a medical-staff appointment at Children’s Hospital, where…

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  • Former NFL Running Back Joe McKnight Killed in Road Rage Incident Near New Orleans

    A shooting after an argument at an intersection in a New Orleans suburb Thursday has left a former NFL running back dead, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, NOLA.com reports. Joe McKnight, 28, who played for both the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs, was identified by family members at the scene.…

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  • For 1st Time Ever, a Black Santa Comes to Mall of America in Minn.

    For the first time in its 24-year history, Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., had a black Santa on hand to help spread holiday cheer Thursday. “This is a long time coming,” Landon Luther, co-owner of the Santa Experience, which has run an intimate photo studio at the mall for years, told the Star Tribune.…

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  • Kanye West Released From Hospital 1 Week After Being Admitted 

    Kanye West checked out of UCLA Medical Center Wednesday, one week after being admitted for exhaustion. As previously reported on The Root, during a show in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 19, Kanye performed just three songs before going on a 17-minute rant about Jay Z, Beyoncé, DJ Khaled, MTV and a host of other topics…

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  • #WalterScott: Michael Slager Takes the Stand in His Trial for Murder

    The white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, according to the Post and Courier. As previously reported on The Root, Michael Slager, 35, is on trial for the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old…

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  • #NoDAPL: Thousands of Veterans Head to Standing Rock to Protect Water Protectors

    A group of veterans will head to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota next week to serve as “human shields” for the water protectors who have been on the ground protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline for months. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock set a goal of getting 2,000 veterans to…

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