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Family: Dallas Nurse Amber Vinson Is Ebola-Free
Dallas nurse Amber Vinson has been declared free of the deadly Ebola virus, her family announced, according to the Washington Post. Vinson, who contracted the disease while treating now-deceased patient Thomas Eric Duncan, was being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being transferred from Dallas. On Tuesday night, Centers for Disease Control and…
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Los Angeles Boy, 7, Dies After Being Run Over by Ice-Cream Truck
One grieving family in Los Angeles is demanding answers after a 7-year-old boy was fatally run over by an ice-cream truck Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. Jamarion Thomas of South L.A. was run over a little after 7 p.m., and the incident incited an angry crowd who went after the driver, throwing bricks…
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Substitute Teacher Arrested After Reportedly Having Sex With Student on Her 1st Day
A substitute teacher has been charged with first-degree sexual assault against a minor after she reportedly had oral sex with a 17-year-old high school student on her first day at the job. According to police, Symone Greene, who taught an English class at Options Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., performed oral sex on the…
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2nd Man Accused of Jumping White House Fence Has Mental Issues, Father Says
The White House was put on lockdown Wednesday after a man scaled the north fence. The jumper was quickly apprehended after a K-9 unit caught him shortly after he made it onto the ground. According to ABC News, at 7:16 p.m., Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Md., was spotted on the North Lawn and…
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Cuba and the US Hug It Out Over Responses to Ebola
Who could have known that it would take an Ebola outbreak in West Africa for Cuba and the U.S. to pat each other on the back about something? Here’s how it happened: First, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry singled out Cuba on Friday as one of the nations that are “stepping up in impressive ways…
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Black Art Lovers, London Is the Place to Be Right Now
To coincide with both Black History Month in the United Kingdom and the internationally renowned Frieze art fair, there are a staggering seven exhibitions by black artists—plus a historical-archive showcase presenting formerly unseen photographs of black people in Victorian Britain—currently showing in London. Previously unthinkable in what was once a notoriously conservative, painfully homogeneous and…
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Chicago Activists ‘Charge Genocide’
In the aftermath of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police, a group of Chicago-based activists have come together to raise awareness against police brutality. Their findings were released Wednesday in a report titled “Police Violence Against Chicago’s Youth of Color,” according to DNAinfo Chicago. For years Chicago has…
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Autopsy: Michael Brown Sustained Close-Range Wound to Hand
Official autopsy results show that unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown was shot in the hand from close range, two unrelated experts have confirmed through analysis, according to documents seen by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Toxicology reports also confirmed that Brown, who was shot by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, had marijuana in his system at…
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Maryland Teen Found Guilty of Raping Classmate in High School Hallway
Teen Jocori Scarborough was found guilty on Tuesday of raping a classmate in a hallway of Salisbury, Md.’s Parkside High School, Salisbury’s Daily Times reports. The 18-year-old was found guilty on all five counts: second-degree rape, false imprisonment, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and disturbing or threatening a student, the newspaper reports. “She said no,” Wicomico County…
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New York Man Charged With Fatally Beating Toddler
A New York City man has been charged in the brutal beating of his two stepchildren. One of the toddlers died as a result of the attack, the New York Post reports. Kelsey “Shawn” Smith, 20, was charged with assault on Monday after the incident, which occurred in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. He insisted that…