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Georgia Teen With No Prior Record Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Stealing a Pair of Sneakers When He Was 15
An 18-year-old Columbus, Ga., teen will spend the next five years in prison, plus 10 years on probation, after stealing a pair of Nike sneakers when he was 15. Dayonn Davis took the shoes from the unsuspecting owner who tried to sell them on Facebook. But despite the fact that he has no prior criminal…
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Florida Jury ‘Awards’ $4 to Family of Black Man Killed by White Police Officer
There’s really no amount of money that can soften the blow of having a loved one taken away from you, but one Florida jury added insult to an inexcusable injury by awarding $4 to the family of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. after his shooting death at the hands of police. According to NBC News, when…
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New Jersey 3rd-Grader Becomes Mayor for a Day After Saving Friend From Choking by Using Heimlich Maneuver
A third-grader from East Orange, N.J., has been heralded a hero after saving a friend with her swift use of the Heimlich maneuver. And in return for her heroic act, Kori Scott, 9, was honored by the mayor of East Orange on Thursday with a “Mayor for the Day” proclamation. Kori, a student at Bowser…
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Utah Mechanic Recorded Berating Spanish-Speaking Family and Taking All Their Money
It never pays to be mean, and one Utah mechanic is learning that the hard way after being captured on video berating a Spanish-speaking family who had issues with their car at a campground over the Memorial Day weekend. In the video, Wyatt Pack, an employee of Weber County, Utah, was seen cursing out Jose…
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How Much Does It Cost to Find Out if the Trump Campaign Colluded With the Russians? $17 Million So Far
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017, and tasked with finding out whether or not members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the year since his appointment, his team has managed to secure guilty pleas from Donald Trump’s foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos,…
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Mama Don’t Take No Net: Serena Williams Comes Off Maternity Leave, Shows She’s Still Boss at French Open
Serena Williams came back from maternity leave ready to stunt on her “co-workers” at the French Open. Having her rank knocked down to No. 453 in the world just because she took time off to have, love and care for her baby Olympia meant nothing in the grand scheme of things when Williams came back…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer: Somebody Is Ready to Snitch on the NFL
The attorney for currently unemployed NFL stars and former San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid dropped a bomb Wednesday on CNN when he hinted that a witness in their collusion case against the powerful football league was ready to drop dime with concrete evidence proving that NFL owners conspired to keep both men…
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Bronx, NY, Man Allegedly Beaten by Pizzeria Employee With Wooden Pizza-Making Tool Demands Justice
A Bronx, N.Y., legal assistant and his attorney are pushing for assault charges to be upgraded to a hate crime after a pizza-maker allegedly brutally attacked him outside a New York City pizzeria. Quevaughn Caruth was just getting a slice with friends when, he says, Ali Essa, the former manager of La Vera Pizzeria, lashed…
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Trump to Give Full Pardon to Satan’s Favorite Author, Dinesh D’Souza
It’s good to see that Donald Trump’s meeting with prison-reform activist Kim Kardashian had a positive effect on the president’s feelings about unjust incarceration. Less than 24 hours after that meeting with the Calabasas, Calif., civil rights leader, Trump has decided to pardon Dinesh D’Souza, the unjustly accused and convicted author of leanings so far…
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Southwest Flight Diverted After Passenger Tried to Join the Mile-High Weed Club
A Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles was diverted Wednesday afternoon after a passenger decided to join the mile-high club. No, they weren’t in the bathroom getting it on with another passenger—they were getting it on with some marijuana. According to CBS affiliate KCAL-TV, the plane made an emergency landing at Mineta…