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Hearing-Impaired Girl, 9, Writes Adorable Letter Thanking Seahawks’ Derrick Coleman
Little Riley Kovalcik’s cute letter to Seattle Seahawks running back Derrick Coleman went viral after her dad tweeted a picture of the note to the football pro, the Daily Mail reports. In her letter, Riley calls Coleman her inspiration, telling the star that she knows how he feels. You see, Riley and her identical twin,…
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Teacher Twerking for Students?
A cellphone video is making the rounds on social media showing a Mississippi teacher twerking in front of a class. The video shows a male teacher bent over wiggling in front of another teacher. Students can be scene in the video gasping and turning away from the site of the gyrating teacher. One student can…
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Missing Michigan Doctor Teleka Patrick: Police Still Searching for Clues
Seven weeks after Teleka Patrick went missing, investigators are still searching for clues as to the whereabouts of the promising young Michigan doctor. What they do know, Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard C. Fuller said during a news conference Wednesday, is that Patrick, 30, has disappeared for short stretches of time in the past, checking into a hotel…
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ASU Fraternity Faces Backlash Following Racist MLK Day Party
Members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University are learning the hard way what happens when you try to host a “funny” party that perpetuates racist stereotypes. Calls for the expulsion of the frat (and students involved) are building, even as the university has already suspended its operations, the Associated Press reports.…
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New Video Shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at It Again
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is back at it again: drinking, cussing and imitating a Jamaican accent, as two new videos have emerged on YouTube that show the mayor, well, being the mayor. In one video titled “New Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Drunk, Swearing in Jamaican Patois? Bumbaclot,” the mayor is shown in a…
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Teen Whom Kanye West Allegedly Beat Up Seeks Out-of-Court Settlement
The 18-year-old whom Kanye West allegedly pummeled last week in a chiropractor’s waiting room for supposedly hurling racist slurs at West’s fiancee wants to settle out of court for a few hundred thousand dollars, TMZ reports. According to TMZ, sources connected with the 18-year-old tell the news site that his lawyer has contacted West’s people…
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A Mother Loses 2 Sons to Violence Only 19 Days Apart
On New Year’s Eve, Dinyal New lost her 13-year-old son, Lee Weathersby III, to gun violence in East Oakland, Calif. Three weeks later her 19-year-old son, Lamar Broussard, has also been killed. Two funerals for her two babies in under a month. “I have no more kids,” New told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that…
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I Don’t Want to Be ‘That White Guy’ When Talking About Racism
“I’m a white guy. One morning I was at the gym, changing at my locker, when two black guys next to me got into a discussion. I don’t know either of them well, but previously I’ve had a lot of casual conversation with one of them and a little bit with the other. One says our city is…
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How a Runner’s Mentality Can Motivate Business Owners
I have decided that fitness and health need to be moved up on my list of priorities. It’s better for my business and my life if I am in tip-top form. So I made the decision to become a runner. I’d always believed that running wasn’t for me because of my own self-limitations; I even…