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Kids’ Candy Fight Sparks Fatal Shooting by Adult of Ex-Pro Baseball Player
A former Los Angeles Angels draft pick was shot and killed in suburban Atlanta last year following a dispute over candy that began with a group of children and escalated to include adults at an apartment complex, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Stacie Williams, 25, who was already in Fulton County, Ga., jail on unrelated…
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Nigeria Delays Elections Over Fears of Violence by Boko Haram Militants
Nigeria’s election commission announced plans Saturday to postpone the country’s presidential and legislative elections for six weeks because of security concerns over violence in the region, according to the Huffington Post, citing a report at the Associated Press. Election-commission Chairman Attahiru Jega said that the vote would be rescheduled from Feb. 14 to March 28…
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Cops Probe Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Boyfriend in Bathtub Incident
Police are investigating the possibility of foul play in the case of Bobbi Kristina Brown, who was found unresponsive in a bathtub last weekend, according to the New York Daily News, citing a report at TMZ. The daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown is on life support at Emory University in Atlanta.…
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Watch: Detroit Man With 21-Mile Commute on Foot Receives New Car, $320,000 in Donations
After making a 21-mile round-trip to work for nearly 10 years because his car broke down, James Robertson was rewarded for his dedication on Friday. A car dealership gave the 56-year-old factory worker a new Ford Taurus on Friday, the New York Daily News reports. As The Root reported earlier, Robertson’s story won the hearts of…
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Oh Boy! Fla. Mom Gives Birth to 14-Pound Baby
When Maxxzandra Ford of Tampa, Fla., gave birth to a baby boy on Jan. 29, she had known for only a matter of weeks that she was pregnant. When her child, Avery, came, he set the record for the heaviest baby delivered at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital, and he was one of the largest babies…
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Michelle and Malia Obama Visit NYC Colleges
Will another Obama call New York City home? Possibly, according to the New York Daily News, which says that Malia Obama and her mother, first lady Michelle Obama, were spotted in the Big Apple on Friday touring New York University, Barnard College and neighboring Columbia University. Malia’s father—you know, the president—graduated from Columbia, on Manhattan’s…
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Bobby Brown’s Relatives Get in Fight at Atlanta Hotel, Police Say
All eyes are on the families of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston as Bobbi Kristina, the only child of Houston and Brown, remains in a hospital after being found facedown in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home. On Friday, tensions within the Brown family reportedly flared after one of Bobby Brown’s relatives, Tina Brown,…
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NY Man Called a Hero for Rescuing Passengers in Deadly Train Crash
When a New York Metro-North commuter train rammed into a Mercedes SUV on Tuesday that was stopped on the track, sending the crash site into flames, 33-year-old Steven Smalls, the train’s engineer and a married father of two, sprang into action, pulling trapped passengers to safety, the New York Daily News reports. Smalls’ sister, Latasha…
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Genital Cutting Is Traumatizing US Doctors and Their African Patients
The number of female African immigrants living in the U.S. who have had their genitals cut or mutilated is nearing the half-million mark, the New York Times reports. American gynecologists and other health care providers are increasingly being exposed to a custom that many of them are simply not prepared to take on. That 500,000…
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#PrisonBae Gets 2 Years in Federal Prison
California felon Jeremy Meeks, whose mug shot photo broke the Internet long before Kim Kardashian’s nudes, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. According to the New York Daily News, Meeks, 30, “was arrested during a gang sweep June 18 for gun possession in Stockton, Calif.” Since he had already served time in…