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Nicki Minaj’s Brother Faces Life in Prison for Child Rape
The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj may be spending a long time in the clink for child rape. According to Bossip, prosecutors reveal that Jelani Maraj’s DNA matches semen found on his 12-year-old accuser’s clothes—a more than billion-to-one match—and have offered him a deal of 15 years to life. The 12-year-old girl was reportedly raped repeatedly between…
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Ex-NFL Player, Wife Killed by 16-Year-old Son
A 16-year-old has been charged with murder in the tragic death of his parents, who were shot early Friday morning in their Houston home. Former NFL player Antonio Armstrong was pronounced dead at a Houston hospital on Friday, while his wife, Dawn Armstrong, was reportedly killed in her bedroom earlier that night. Their teenage son is being…
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Cousin of Cop Killed in Baton Rouge, La., Wrongly Arrested in the Ambush, Allegedly Denied Diabetes Medication
The cousin of one of the Baton Rouge, La., law-enforcement officials killed in an apparent ambush was wrongfully arrested and allegedly denied his diabetes medicine after being deemed a suspect in the ambush, the Daily Beast reports. Damarcus Alexander was out with a friend at a Wal-Mart July 17, buying a white shirt for church.…
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Special Attorney Joins Team in Philando Castile Case
John Choi, who is the county attorney for Ramsey County, Minn., overseeing the case of Philando Castile’s death, said that Don Lewis, a black defense lawyer, would be joining his team to help weigh possible charges emerging from the death of Castile earlier this month. According to Choi, Lewis will “provide an independent perspective bolstered…
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Texas Cop Says He Had Evidence of Wrongdoing in Sandra Bland’s Case but Was Threatened Into Silence
There are still several questions that remain in connection with the 2015 death of Sandra Bland while she was in custody at a Waller County, Texas, jail. Now an officer of the small Texas town where Bland was pulled over says that he has evidence of wrongdoing in Bland’s case but was threatened into silence by the…
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Huge Win for Voting Rights as Appeals Court Strikes Down NC’s ID Law
In a major victory for voting rights, a federal appeals court struck down North Carolina’s stringent requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots, and also reinstated an additional week of early voting, the Washington Post reports. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit came to the decision Friday, vindicating…
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6 Mich. State Employees Facing Criminal Charges in Flint Water Crisis
Six Michigan state employees were criminally charged Friday morning in connection with the water crisis in Flint, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the report, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services workers Nancy Peeler, Corinne Miller and Robert Scott, and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Leanne Smith, Adam Rosenthal and Patrick Cook, have all been indicted…
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Black Fla. Therapist who was Shot by Police Reunited with Autistic Patient
A North Miami therapist who was shot and wounded in the leg by police last week while trying to de-escalate a situation with his autistic patient said that he had a happy reunion Thursday with the young man, who is still hospitalized because of emotional trauma, CBS News reports. Charles Kinsey, who was released from…
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NYC Settles With Family of Avonte Oquendo for $2,700,000
The city of New York is paying out $2.7 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Avonte Oquendo, the autistic boy whose body was found in New York City’s East River in January 2014 three months after he disappeared from his Queens, N.Y., school, the New York Daily News reports.…