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Registered Sex Offender Sues His Sexual Assault Victim for Defamation of Character
A registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to felony assault and was sentenced to a year in jail sued his victim for defamation of character in a California court. Lang Her, 26, sued Yee Xiong, 24, on the day he was sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting Xiong after a party at…
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Flint, Mich., Residents Hit With Bacterial Illness as Water Crisis Continues
Residents of Flint, Mich., have spent the last year finding creative ways to avoid using the city’s contaminated water supplies in their daily lives, but now a new threat adds an additional complication to an already frustrating situation: an outbreak of shigellosis. The New York Times reports that cases of the bacterial illness, which is…
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LAPD Releases Surveillance Video in Carnell Snell Jr. Shooting
The Los Angeles Police Department released surveillance video Tuesday that shows the moments before police shot and killed an 18-year-old teen in South Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. The 45-second clip, which the LAPD posted to its YouTube channel, shows a suspect reported to be Carnell Snell Jr. in a shopping center. The young man…
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NYC Couple Slashes Man on Subway Platform
A 21-year-old man was slashed in the head, chest and hands after getting into an argument with a man and woman inside the Prospect Park subway station in Brooklyn, N.Y., the New York Daily News reports. According to officials, the 21-year-old victim was attacked around 5:15 a.m. Sunday when the man punched him in the face, and…
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Watch This Ball Boy Make Perfect 1-Handed, OBJ-Style Catch
While Odell Beckham Jr. was having a mediocre Monday night by Odell Beckham Jr. standards, the ball boy for the Minnesota Vikings was busy stealing all the social media views. Vikings quarterback Sam Bradford was scrambling out of the pocket when he attempted to throw the ball out of bounds. He did, and the ball…
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NYC Subway Conductor Talks Down Suicidal Woman on Train Platform
Gabriella Georgescu, 43, was standing close to the busy train platform’s edge in New York City, holding on to her 9-year-old child, when subway conductor Warren Cox came to the rescue, the New York Daily News reports. Georgescu was reportedly talking about killing herself at the 59th Street-Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan when nearby subway…
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21-Year-Old Va. Woman Goes Missing; Family Begs for Leads
Keeshae Jacobs, 21, disappeared a little over a week ago. Her family says that the last time they heard from her was on Sept. 26, when, they say, she went missing after leaving her grandmother’s house in Richmond, Va., CBS News reports. Annie Gail, Jacobs’ grandmother, said that she was at her house looking for…
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76ers Rookie Breaks Foot; Agent Reportedly Doesn't Want Him to Play at All This Season
The Philadelphia 76ers’ top draft pick, Ben Simmons, may not play at all this season. According to rumors circulating around the NBA, Simmons never wanted to play for the 76ers. He reportedly really wanted to take his talents to the now Kobe-less Los Angeles Lakers. But the dreaded lottery balls of fate did not deem…
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Lawyer: Calif. Officers Who Killed Fleeing Black Man Should Face Murder Charges
A lawyer for the family of a black man who was fleeing police called Monday for the two Sacramento, Calif., police officers who killed him to be charged with murder, Reuters reports. John Burris, the lawyer, told Reuters in a phone interview that dashcam video released last week suggests that the officers who shot and…