culture
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New Black Panther Party Calls Axman Who Attacked Police a ‘Crusader’
The New Black Panther Party’s Queens chapter in New York City is calling the axman who attacked four New York City Police Department rookies a “crusader seeking justice,” the New York Post reports. The chapter leader, Frank Sha Francois, told the Post that while he did not condone the methods the man, identified as Zale…
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Report: 5-Year-Old Boy Being Observed for Ebola in NYC Hospital
A 5-year-old boy is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and is being observed for Ebola, ABC News reports. According to ABC News, the boy arrived in New York on Saturday from Guinea. It is unclear when the boy’s temperature spiked, but according to media reports he posted a fever of 103…
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Detroit Man Is Not the Father, but Court Says He Owes $30,000 in Child Support
A Detroit man is facing a choice given him by the state of Michigan. The first option is to pay $30,000 in back child support for a child that is not his. His second option? Go to prison. But wait, it gets worse. Everything and everyone involved in this story—including a paternity test, the child’s…
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Ind. Teen Shot Dead for Laughing at Neighbor
Police say 13-year-old Kobe Jones was shot dead by his Gary, Ind., neighbor after the boy reportedly laughed at the man, whose home was burglarized earlier that day. According to NBC Chicago, the neighbor, whose name had not been released, returned home with his girlfriend to find that his house had been robbed while they…
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Texas Teen Dies Days After School Holds Special Graduation
Lynzee Ford, a senior at Kilgore High School in Texas, was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year, and although she underwent several treatments, doctors recently told the teen that she had only four months to live. “Well, I didn’t take it too hard, I didn’t want to stress myself out, so I decided to take…
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NYPD Cops Recovering After Hatchet Attack
Two New York City police officers are recovering after they were attacked last week by a man brandishing a hatchet in the borough of Queens, police officials told the New York Daily News on Saturday. The attack occurred Thursday when four rookie officers were posing for photos in the middle of the afternoon near Jamaica…
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NY and NJ Ebola Quarantines Under Fire
In a firsthand account of her experience under a mandatory Ebola quarantine in New Jersey, a health care worker condemned the process, calling it disorganized, frightening and chaotic. Kaci Hickox, the first traveler quarantined Friday under guidelines announced the same day, wrote the account for the Dallas Morning News in a piece that appeared Saturday.…
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Md. Teen Viciously Attacked on the Way to Look for Work
A West Baltimore group of girls allegedly beat and robbed a teenage girl just blocks away from a local mall where she planned to submit a job application. The victim’s mother, who didn’t want to be identified, told WJZ in Baltimore that the group that attacked her daughter is part of the “Sisterhood” gang. “They…
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Search Resumes in DC for Missing 8-Year-Old Relisha Rudd
Volunteers resumed searching Saturday for 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, who went missing seven months ago after her mother entrusted her in the care of a janitor, who worked at the homeless shelter where the family lived in Washington, D.C. Four teams—including search-and-rescue workers from Maine, who arrived in the area Thursday to help out—scoured three areas…
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Top Cop Says NYPD Hatchet Attack Was an ‘Act of Terror’
Commissioner William Bratton of the New York City Police Department said Friday that a hatchet attack on four rookie cops a day earlier was an “act of terror” by a homegrown radical, according to the Associated Press. The man, Zale Thompson, 32, was shot and killed Thursday when he reportedly attacked a group of rookie…