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Baltimore Man Fatally Shoots Neighbors Over Parking Space, Police Say
A North Baltimore man is facing 17 charges after he allegedly shot and killed two of his neighbors over a parking-space dispute, police said, according to the Baltimore Sun. Charges against Dennis Padgett, 34, include first-degree murder, assault and possessing a firearm with a felony conviction. He is currently being held at the Baltimore City…
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Wrongfully Convicted Brothers Win $17,000,000 Settlement From NYC
A Brooklyn, N.Y., family has finally received compensation from New York City for the two decades three brothers spent in prison for murders they did not commit, receiving a total of $17 million from the city, the city comptroller confirmed Monday, the New York Post reports. Robert Hill, Alvena Jennette and Daryl Austin—half-brothers who share…
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Obama Regrets Not Attending Unity March in Paris
On Monday the White House revealed that President Barack Obama regrets that he did not send a more senior U.S. official to the march in Paris on Sunday to denounce terrorism. Heads of state from a number of countries gathered to commemorate the shooting attacks against journalists, police officers and hostages that occurred in France…
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Muslim Man Hailed as Hero for Hiding Hostages During Paris Attack
When Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the shooting attacks in France last week—threatened to kill hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris, a young Muslim man led people to a walk-in freezer below the supermarket to shield them from harm, CNN reports. Lassana Bathily, an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket, is being…
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Thousands of Black Lives Mattered in Nigeria, but the World Didn’t Pay Attention
From a bombed NAACP office in Colorado to the decimated town of Baga, Nigeria, acts of terrorism against black people and institutions have failed to generate much attention in the United States this past week. Most of the Western world and its political leaders have, instead, turned their eyes to No. 10 rue Nicolas-Appert, Paris,…
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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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Upcoming Ruling Reminds Us of the 1 Thing Hurting MLK’s Legacy: His Fighting Children
How do you solve a problem like the King kids? Since the deaths of their mother, Coretta Scott King, and eldest sibling, Yolanda King, the surviving children of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. have engaged in some publicly destructive and embarrassing behavior. Lawsuits abound in this King Lear-ish plot as brothers Dexter Scott…
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New Video Shows Montana Cop Sobbing After Shooting Unarmed Man
Grant Morrison, a Montana police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in April, sobbed several minutes after the shooting occurred once he realized that the man didn’t have a gun, a dash-cam video recently released to the public reveals. Morrison shot and killed Richard Ramirez, a 38-year-old man who was sitting in his car…
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French Assailant Appears in Video Justifying the Attack Against Charlie Hebdo
Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the wave of attacks that claimed the lives of journalists, police officers and hostages in France last week—appears in a video released to the public on Sunday in which he attempts to justify the attacks. “What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing,” Coulibaly,…
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Va. Family Killed in Crash With an 18-Wheeler
Five members of a Virginia family, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in a tragic accident Saturday morning after colliding with a tractor trailer en route to Maryland, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, Travis Straton, 25; his girlfriend, Regina Ayres, 24; and Ayres’ two children, 7-year-old Jordan Ayres and…