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6-Year-Old Shopping for Bubble Gum Killed in Kansas City Shooting
Kansas City, Mo., first-grader Angel Hooper and her father, Booker Hooper, set off to a 7-Eleven gas station to pick up some bubble gum after a Friday-evening jog when, police say, a passing vehicle opened fire, shooting into the parking lot. “Before he could grab her and take her to the ground, she was already…
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Americans Aren’t Really Donating Money to the Ebola Outbreak
With all the ice buckets that got thrown over heads this past summer to raise money for Lou Gehrig’s disease (also called ALS), you’d think people would have that same zeal to fight a more immediate humanitarian crisis like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but the New York Times is reporting that donations for Ebola from…
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Some Rich, White People in Baton Rouge, La., Want to Form Their Own Town
The rich, white folk who live in Baton Rouge, La., want to secede and form their own town called St. George. Or at least that’s how their critics are articulating the initiative, the BBC reports. The secession, of sorts, is being sold as a well-intentioned plan that will allow St. George’s hypothetical residents to gain more…
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Leak? It Probably Means That Darren Wilson Won’t Be Charged In Michael Brown’s Death
When I read in last Friday’s New York Times that some of the testimony in the investigation of Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson was leaked, I cringed and then uttered a few expletives because I knew something bad was coming soon. In my years of being a trial lawyer and legal analyst, I’ve seen…
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World Health Organization: Nigeria Is Now Ebola-Free
Ebola is no longer a threat in Nigeria, the World Health Organization announced Monday, with more than a month having passed without a new case, Reuters reports. “Nigeria is now free of Ebola,” World Health Organization representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the capital, Abuja, Reuters reported. “This is a spectacular success…
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Possible Serial Killer Linked to Bodies of 7 Women in Northwestern Indiana
Authorities have found the bodies of seven women throughout Hammond and Gary, Ind., that have been linked to a possible serial killer currently in police custody, Fox News reports. According to the report, 43-year-old Gary resident Darren Deon Vann gave police information about three other dead women after he was picked up for questioning in…
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Ferguson Protesters Battle St. Louis Rams Fans After Game
Ferguson protesters looking for justice in the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown clashed with St. Louis Rams fans outside the Edward Jones Dome Sunday evening after the Rams upset the visiting Seattle Seahawks. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, protesters were calling for the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson when several fans started chanting…
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Rwandan Children Kept Home From NJ Elementary School Amid Ebola Scare
Two children who recently moved from Rwanda to the United States are being kept home from school after parents at Howard R. Yocum Elementary School in Maple Shade Township, N.J., voiced concerns about a possible outbreak of Ebola, Fox 29 reports. Of course, Rwanda is an East African country that is located about 2,600 miles…
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Family: Amber Vinson, 2nd Nurse to Contract Ebola, Did Not Fly Recklessly
Amber Vinson did not knowingly endanger passengers during a Frontier Airlines flight, her family members insist, and they have hired a lawyer to help fight such allegations, the New York Daily News reports. “In no way was Amber careless prior to or after her exposure to Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan,” the family said in a…
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This Isn’t New—Venus and Serena Have Endured Nasty Insults Throughout Their Careers
Over the weekend, Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpischev apologized for calling Venus and Serena Williams “the Williams brothers”—the least-funny insult in what for the Williamses has been a career filled with unfunny, sexist and racist insults for the sisterly titans of professional women’s tennis. Ever since they stepped onto the court in the mid-1990s, the Williams…