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LAPD Detective Investigating Derrick Rose Rape Case Dead in Apparent Suicide
A Los Angeles Police Department detective who was investigating the rape allegations against NBA’s Derrick Rose has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities confirmed Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. LAPD Detective Nadine Hernandez was found with a single gunshot wound to the chest Tuesday afternoon in a Whittier, Calif., home. She was…
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Trump Supporter Charged After Threatening Black Woman in Albany, NY
An apparent Donald Trump supporter is facing charges of aggravated harassment after allegedly threatening to beat a black woman and calling her a racial slur earlier this week, the Albany Times Union reports. Albany, N.Y., police spokesman Steve Smith said that officers responded to a 911 call at a local ShopRite around 8:20 p.m. Monday…
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Sketch Released of Man Who Reportedly Attacked 11-Year-Old Boy in NYC
A man violently pulled an 11-year-old boy between two cars on a moving subway train in New York City, the New York Daily News reports. The boy told police that he saw two men play-fighting in his subway car when one of them asked him if he wanted to join. After he refused, the man…
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4 Young Men in Ala. Charged in Attack of High School Student Supporting ‘Blue Lives Matter’
Four young men in Alabama were arrested Tuesday following a Sept. 30 attack against Brian Ogle, a 17-year-old high school student who supported police and “Blue Lives Matter” on social media, the New York Daily News reports. Brian was reportedly attacked after a Sylacauga High School football game, according to AL.com. Brian, who suffered serious…
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NYC Anti-Violence Activist Shot Dead in Fla.
Lavon Walker, 30, an anti-violence activist, died at a hospital after being shot Sunday on a street corner in Miami Beach, CBS News reports. The incident took place near the popular Miami Beach street Ocean Drive right before 7 a.m. Three suspects were seen in a surveillance video speeding away from the scene of the shooting…
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Former Mo. School Principal Accused of Hiring Hit Man to Kill Pregnant Girlfriend
A former Missouri school principal is facing two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly hiring his childhood friend to kill his pregnant girlfriend, KMOV reports. Jocelyn Peters, 30, was found shot dead in her apartment in late March. She was seven months pregnant at the time of her death and was a teacher at Mann…
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Family Members Overpower Convicted Sex Offender Who Climbed Into Girls’ Bedroom: Report
Family members of two teenage girls in San Bernardino County, Calif., were able to overpower and pin down a convicted sex offender who reportedly sneaked into the girls’ room and tried to sexually assault them, according to the police, the Los Angeles Times reports. Derek Lamont Fowler of Los Angeles was charged Tuesday with burglary…
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Okla. Medical Examiner Releases Terence Crutcher Autopsy Report
Terence Crutcher, the unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white female police officer in Tulsa, Okla., had PCP in his system when he died from the fatal gunshot wound, according to a medical examiner’s report released Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. The report, from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in…
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Sprint to Offer Free Devices and Broadband to 1,000,000 Low-income Students
A new initiative from mobile carrier Sprint is designed to bridge the gap between families that have internet access and the 5 million families that do not by offering free devices and data plans to low-income high school students. The 1Million Project is “the largest corporate initiative to bridge the digital divide and help close…