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Ga. Runaways Wanted in Shooting Caught After Mocking Police Online
If you’re on the run (and not in the Beyoncé-Jay Z kind of way) from the police, you might not want to boast and brag online while detailing your activities. Some might see this as common sense, but for accused College Park, Ga., fugitives Shanice Weaver and Jonathan Bankston … not so much, 11 Alive…
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LeBron James Is Going Back to Cleveland
After what seems like an eternity of having fans, haters and even the entire National Basketball Association at the edge of their seats, LeBron James has finally made a decision. The 29-year-old has announced that he will be returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he was drafted straight out of high school in 2003 and…
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LGBT Center’s 26-Year-Old 1st Black Chair Faces Racial Hostility
According to North Carolina’s Charlotte Post, the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte has elected Ranzeno Frazier as its youngest and first African-American chair of its board of trustees. But not everyone is happy about his groundbreaking role. Frazier’s selection was met with both positive and negative responses, with naysayers taking issue with his age and experience, the…
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Police Use Breast Implants’ Serial Numbers to ID Dead Woman
A Gary, Ind., woman who had been missing since July 3 was found dead in the trunk of an abandoned car, having suffered several stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head, the Lake County (Ind.) Coroner’s Office told the Chicago Sun-Times. The woman, whose body was found Monday, was identified Wednesday as Decarol…
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Detroit Activists Arrested After Blocking Trucks Sent to Turn Off Water
Activists in Detroit are resisting attempts by the city’s water provider to take away water from nonpaying consumers, resorting to even temporarily blocking trucks sent to do the deed, Al-Jazeera reports. On Thursday, at least nine of some 50 protesters were arrested following a protest outside Homrich, the company paid by the Detroit Water and…
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Judge: GOP Conspired to ‘Manipulate’ Redistricting in Fla.
A Florida judge has tossed the state’s congressional map, ordering two districts to be redrawn, in a move that may affect neighboring districts and strongly impact Republican influence, the New York Times reports. In his scathing decision late Thursday, Judge Terry P. Lewis of the state’s 2nd Judicial Circuit demanded that two of Florida’s districts…
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Should I Snitch on a Friend Who Slept With Another Friend’s Husband?
I have a friend who recently confessed to me that she slept with a mutual friend’s husband. The same mutual friend invited everyone over to her house, and my friend came, acting like everything was OK. I thought it was inappropriate for her to be there and didn’t speak to her other than to say…
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A Guide to Marriage, Courtesy of Robin Thicke
Pay attention to what Robin Thicke has been saying, not singing. Forget about the lyrics, the new album and his recent antics. Instead, listen to what he’s been saying about his marriage, and what you’ll hear is a man putting on a master class in what not to do if you want to hold on…
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Is Sherri Shepherd Giving Up Rights to Surrogate Baby?
Sherri Shepherd, the soon-to-be-departed co-host of The View, has decided to waive parental rights to, and accompanying responsibilities for, her unborn child, TMZ reports. According to the gossip site, Shepherd claims her estranged husband, Lamar Sally, convinced her to have another child so that he could extort financial support from her after he filed for…
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Students Seek to Ban R-Word From Publication; Board Members Say No
Students at a Philadelphia-area high school are being punished for not using the word “redskin.” Like the Washington, D.C., NFL team that just lost its trademark, Neshaminy High School has as its mascot a brown man’s face wearing a headdress—and the mascot is called “Redskin,” a term that is offensive to Native Americans. When the editors at the…