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Kan. Bail Bondsman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing 7-Year-Old Son Whose Remains Were Found in Pigsty
A former Kansas bail bondsman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the murder of his 7-year-old son, who, law enforcement say, was subject to abuse and starvation before his remains were fed to pigs on the family’s rental property. According to the Associated Press, 46-year-old Michael Jones won’t be eligible for parole for…
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School Corporal Punishment Ban Fails in La. House
Students in more than half of Louisiana’s public school districts will still be subject to paddling and spanking in school for misbehavior after the state House on Monday rejected a proposal to ban corporal punishment across the state. The Times-Picayune reports that only 34 lawmakers voted in favor of Shreveport Democrat Rep. Barbara Norton’s prohibition…
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Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Take Over Administration Building for 3 Days Until Demands Are Met
Black students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believed that a “hostile climate” was being fostered against them on the school’s campus, so last week they took over an administrative building for three days until the university agreed to meet their demands. The protest was organized by the Afrikan/Black Student Alliance, and KSBW reports…
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Lawsuit: Miss. Sheriff’s Department Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees,…
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Eric Trump Claimed Russians Fund Trump’s Golf Courses: Report
One of President Vladimir TrumPutin’s sons was out here spilling all the tea in 2014, telling a prominent golf writer that Russians funded one of Papa’s golf courses, because of course they did. James Dodson, who co-authored the Arnold Palmer biography A Golfer’s Life, told Boston radio station WBUR that during a trip to one…
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Obama Basically Warned Trump That Michael Flynn Was His Administration’s Phaedra Parks
Just as NeNe Leakes warned us all about Phaedra Parks, it turns out that former president Barack Obama—aka “We wish you could’ve gone month to month until we found a better replacement”—warned President TrumPutin that Michael Flynn was shady. In November, then-President Obama warned President-elect TrumPutin against hiring retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his…
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Wait, Did President Trump Just Threaten Sally Yates?
President Twitter Fingas is at it again. On Monday, hours before former U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates is set to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russia, the president is out here tweeting like he’s a member of Real Housewives. Donald Trump tweeted (and apparently subsequently deleted): “Ask Sally Yates, under oath,…
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Colo. Spanish Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave After Photos, Videos Show Students Smashing Piñata With Donald Trump’s Picture
Well, this Cinco de Mayo celebration didn’t go over very well. A Colorado high school Spanish teacher was put on administrative leave after photos and videos surfaced of students on Friday smashing a piñata with a picture of President Donald Trump on the front. According to Fox News, Roosevelt High School students in Weld County…