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  • Former NJ Priest Charged in Choking of 4-Month-Old at Kansas Wal-Mart 

    A former pastor is facing charges of attempting to choke a 4-month-old baby he did not know at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart, the Kansas City Star reports. Oleh Zhownirovych, 54, a former pastor at the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Church in Clifton, N.J., was charged in Johnson County (Kan.) District Court with felony aggravated battery and…

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  • Feds Charge Kan. Men With Domestic Terrorism for Plot Against Somali Muslims

    Three Kansas men who dubbed themselves “the Crusaders” plotted for months to bomb a mosque and an apartment complex that is home to Somali immigrants, according to the Department of Justice, reports the New York Daily News. Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Stein, 47, were charged Friday with conspiring to use a…

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  • Kan. Woman Receives Racist Letter: 'This Neighborhood Does Not Need Any Blacks In It' 

    Nancy Wirths received an anonymous, racist letter Monday stating that black people were not welcome in her Wichita, Kan., neighborhood, KSN.com reports. Wirths says that the handwritten letter was an attack on her and her biracial family—six of her nine grandchildren are African American. “I look over my shoulder. I watch. The kids aren’t allowed…

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  • Suspect in Shooting Death of Kansas City, Kan., Police Capt. Robert Melton Charged With Capital Murder

    A 20-year-old suspect in the shooting death of Kansas City, Kan., Police Capt. Robert Melton has been charged with capital murder and is facing a possible death sentence if convicted in the case, the Kansas City Star reports. Jamaal R. Lewis, who has no known criminal record, is also charged with aggravated assault on a…

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  • Kan. Black Lives Matter Turns Planned Protest Into Cookout With Police 

    A Wichita, Kan., Black Lives Matter group was planning a protest march on Sunday as the nation continued to grapple with the recent string of fatal shootings of black men by police and of police by gunmen. However, the Wichita Eagle reports, after speaking with Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay, the group decided that instead of…

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  • Kansas City, Kan., Police Captain Fatally Shot on Duty 

    A Kansas City, Kan., police captain was fatally wounded while responding to a drive-by shooting in the city, USA Today reports. Capt. Robert Melton was pronounced dead at the hospital after being shot as the hunt for suspects continues, Mayor Mark Holland confirmed in a statement. “This is a very tense and volatile time in…

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  • Kan. Woman Gives Birth to 3 Sets of Twins in 26 Months

    The odds are 1 in 88,000, but don’t tell that to Danesha Couch. The 20-year-old Kansas supermom has given birth to not one, not two, but three sets of twins in the past 26 months. “People just consider me a freak of nature when I tell them,” Couch told Fox 4 News. According to the…

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  • White Kansas Cop Threatens Little Black Girl on Facebook, Loses Job

    Social media giveth—truth, laughs, info—and it taketh away—jobs, reputation, dignity. One police officer from Kansas found out the downside of being online this weekend when he decided to randomly threaten a black woman’s daughter on Facebook and promptly lost his job. The Daily Mail identifies the disgraced public servant as Rodney Lee Wilson, a rookie…

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