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’70s Soul Singer Cuba Gooding Sr. Found Dead in Los Angeles
Cuba Gooding Sr., the singer who had popular hits in the 1970s with the group the Main Ingredient, was found dead in a car in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Gooding, who is the father of actors Cuba Gooding Jr. and Omar Gooding and who would have turned…
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Just How Did 420 Become Code for Marijuana Smoking Anyway?
Happy 420 to everyone who partakes and those who should partake so they can calm the hell down. As people across the globe prepare to smoke a bowl of their favorite kush or roll a blunt with their favorite sativa, let us take a moment to remember when 420 became the bat-weed signal for potheads…
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Fla. Sheriff’s Office Investigating Noose Sent to Black Prosecutor Who Refused to Pursue Death Penalty
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is investigating after a noose was mailed to the office of State Attorney Aramis Ayala, who announced last month that she won’t pursue the death penalty in any case she handles during her tenure. Orlando Weekly reports that Ayala’s chief investigator, Eric Edwards, contacted sheriff’s deputies with the…
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Creepy Serial Stalker Shows Up at Malia Obama’s NYC Internship to Ask Her to Marry Him
Because not even the daughter of a former beloved president is safe from male harassment, we now have this story: Secret Service agents detained a Brooklyn, N.Y., man last week after he showed up at a building where former first daughter Malia Obama is working as an intern and asked her to marry him. Sources…
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#Flint: Mayor Says Switching City Water Source ‘Too Risky’ After Lead-Contamination Crisis
April 25 marks three years since the city of Flint, Mich., switched its water source from the city of Detroit to the Flint River, causing a massive lead-contamination crisis that has not been resolved, and on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said that switching water sources again as previously planned would be too risky and expensive.…
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Los Angeles Police Commission Votes to Require Cops to Try De-Escalation Before Firing Guns
The Los Angeles Police Commission voted on a policy Tuesday that would require all LAPD officers to try to defuse situations whenever possible before firing their guns, with the specific aim of decreasing the number of officer-involved shootings. From the Los Angeles Times: The new rules formally incorporate a decades-old concept called “de-escalation” into the…
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Fresno, Calif., Shooting Rampage: Suspect in Custody, 3 People Killed
Police in Fresno, Calif., say a man went on a shooting rampage in the city Tuesday morning, randomly firing at four people, with authorities saying that he killed three of them before he was taken into custody. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, who is also suspected in the fatal shooting…
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Black Woman Comes Forward to Say Bill O’Reilly Called Her ‘Hot Chocolate’ While She Worked at Fox
Bill O’Reilly continues to put the “dirty old man” in dirty old man, according to a new claim. A black woman has come forward and told attorney Lisa Bloom that when she was a clerical worker at Fox News, O’Reilly leered at her and called her “hot chocolate.” Bloom helped the woman report the harassment…
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Morgan Freeman to Produce Rodney King Docuseries With New Home Video Footage
April 29 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, also known as the Rodney King riots, and the man whose beating by police was captured on film and brought the topic of race to the forefront of the national conversation may soon be the subject of a new docuseries. Variety reports that…
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Ark. Supreme Court Blocks Executions of 2 Inmates Scheduled to Die Monday Night
The fast-tracked Arkansas executions hit another snag Monday when the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled to halt the executions of two men who were scheduled to be put to death Monday night. The state was in a rush to execute eight inmates before the end of the month, when one of the drugs in its lethal…
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