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Photo of NC Cop and Autistic Teen Talking Goes Viral
This situation could easily have gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and who school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without permission. School officials immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which dispatched Officer Tim Purdy. When the officer arrived, he found the teen sitting by…
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Report: Campaign Manager for Angela Corey Helped Limit Fla. State Attorney Vote to Republicans
The Florida state attorney’s election in the 4th Judicial Circuit has taken an unexpected twist, with the high-profile race, featuring the ever controversial Angela Corey as incumbent, suddenly becoming closed to non-Republican voters. The election is now set to be decided by about 320,000 registered Republicans in the district during the primary because of a candidate…
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Ind. Man Charged After Reportedly Making Threats Against Donald Trump
A Clarksville, Ind., man reportedly on probation has been charged with making threats against presidential candidate Donald Trump, WLKY reports. Richard Deville Jr. is accused of posting a threatening video on YouTube that was put under the spotlight after someone hundreds of miles away saw the three-and-a-half-minute video and contacted authorities in Atlanta. Federal agents…
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Former BET Host Jeff Johnson Has $5 Million to Convince Black Voters to Support Hillary Clinton
Former BET host and producer Jeff Johnson will be joining Democratic super PAC Priorities USA as a consultant, handling part of the group’s $5.3 million advertising budget focused on black and Hispanic markets, All Digitocracy reports. Priorities USA is supporting Hillary Clinton for president, and Johnson, who is president of his Baltimore firm, JIJ Communications, will…
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‘Racist McShootFace’ Pushes Bidding for Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin to $65,000,000
A user with the screen name “Racist McShootFace” has pushed the bidding for the firearm owned by George Zimmerman and used to kill unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., to $65 million, the Daily Mail reports. As news of the auction spread, several people hijacked the auction site posting bids under phony screen names…
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Atlanta Woman Who Fought Off 2 Armed Carjackers: ‘I Forgive You’
Jasmine Warren wasn’t going to let two armed men steal her car. As she walked out of an Atlanta Exxon gas station around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, two men wearing hoodies jumped out and attempted to take he car, but Warren fought back. At one point, one of the men pointed a gun at Warren and…
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Susannah Mushatt Jones, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died Thursday at the age of 116. Jones, who had been ill for 10 days, died at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she had lived for the last 30 years, the Associated Press reports. Her death leaves Emma Morano, a few months younger…
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Trump’s Butler: Obama Should’ve Been Shot in His 1st Term
Donald Trump’s longtime butler, Anthony Senecal, seems to have a penchant for blasting President Barack Obama in Facebook posts calling for him to be killed. According to Mother Jones, Senecal, who is 84, took to Facebook to declare that Obama should have been “shot as an enemy agent in his first term.” “To all my…
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Lee McCollum, Featured in Chicagoland Documentary, Shot Dead on South Side
A young South Side Chicago man who starred in the CNN documentary Chicagoland, detailing his struggle to escape violence in his city, was shot to death Thursday, DNAinfo reports. Lee McCollum Jr.—who started out with his gang affiliations but ended up graduating as an honor roll student, athlete and prom king from Fenger High School, even…
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South African Judge Placed on ‘Special Leave’ After Facebook Rant Claiming Rape Is Black People’s Pastime
A South African High Court judge is under heavy scrutiny for comments made about black culture and rape, saying that rape is a pastime for black people, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, the Facebook rant is from an exchange between activist Gillian Schutte and Judge Mabel Jansen that occurred about a year…