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Rapper Nelly Released From Jail Without Rape Charges, Pending Investigation
Rapper Nelly, born Cornell Haynes Jr., has been released from a Washington state jail and not charged after his Saturday-morning arrest for an alleged rape, according to reports. The rapper tweeted the news of his release Saturday night: As reported earlier by The Root, Nelly was arrested early Saturday morning after a woman accused him…
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Coroner Rules Death of 19-Year-Old Chicago Woman Found in Freezer an Accident
An autopsy has determined that a 19-year-old woman whose body was found inside a Chicago-area hotel freezer died of hypothermia from exposure to cold conditions and not foul play. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says that toxicology tests found alcohol, caffeine and an epilepsy/migraine medication in Kenneka Jenkins’ system and that her death was…
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Rapper Nelly Arrested for Rape: Report
Rapper Nelly, born Cornell Haynes Jr., has been arrested and charged with second-degree rape for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on his tour bus early Saturday morning. TMZ reports that a woman claims she was raped on the rapper’s bus in Auburn, Wash. The rape allegedly happened Saturday at 3:48 a.m. Law enforcement told the…
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Thousands Come Out for Funeral of Officer Slain in Las Vegas Attack
Off-duty Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield was one of the 58 people killed when Stephen Haddock fired into a crowd during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last week. On Thursday, thousands holding candles came to pay their respects to the 34-year-old husband and father of two at the Police Memorial Park,…
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University of Wisconsin System Passes Dangerous New Policy That Expels Students for Protest
It’s good to know that the First Amendment is protected on college campuses. Not. The University of Wisconsin recently approved a policy that will suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations—because they are infringing on others’ free speech—an ironic and dangerous threat to the right to protest everywhere. The Associated Press reports…
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Opioid Crisis Intervention Court Is a New Kind of Drug-Court Program Looking to Stop People From Dying
Drug court is a common diversion program across the nation that attempts to help nonviolent drug addicts charged with crimes by placing them in a supervised treatment plan in lieu of the traditional justice system. In exchange for successfully completing the program, participants can often get a reduced sentence or have charges dismissed entirely. The…
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Texas Lawmaker Who Called 2 Black Prosecutors Racial Slurs Refuses to Resign
Today in peak “I’m not racist but,” a Texas lawmaker who brazenly used the n-word to describe two black prosecutors is refusing to resign, all while insisting he’s for the fair treatment of all Americans. #SureJan. According to NBC News, in a City Hall meeting earlier this week, Brownsville, Texas, City Commissioner-at-Large Cesar De Leon…
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Trump Administration Removes Mandate to Cover Birth Control From Obamacare
Birth control will now be harder for some women to get, depending on who their employer is. The Trump administration decided Friday that, effective immediately, any employer can claim a religious or moral objection to providing birth control coverage under its insurance plan. The Obamacare mandate that requires birth control to be provided at no…
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Here We Go Again: Gulf Coast Braces for Yet Another Major Storm
Hurricane Nate, a storm that has already killed 22 people in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, is barreling toward the Gulf Coast. Nate is expected to make landfall late Saturday night or Sunday morning as a hurricane. The Washington Post reports that the National Hurricane Center has issued warnings for southeastern Louisiana, coastal Mississippi and Alabama.…