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‘Obamacare Kid’ Comes Out as Transgender Teen
Who could forget the cherubic face of the little boy in a vest who stood by President Barack Obama as he signed his landmark Affordable Care Act into law nearly six years ago? The child in the photo, Marcelas Owens, then an 11-year-old health care activist, has just turned 17 and has also recently come…
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Prince Will Release a Memoir in 2017
The artist who continues to delight us as Prince will release an “unconventional” autobiography next year, Rolling Stone reports. Publisher Spiegel & Grau describes the work as “an unconventional and poetic journey through his life and creative work” that will be written by the 57-year-old himself. Prince will reportedly be delving into stories about his…
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Baltimore Ravens’ Tray Walker Dies in Dirt Bike Accident
Tray Walker, a 23-year-old cornerback with the Baltimore Ravens, died Friday from injuries suffered from a fatal crash in Liberty City, Fla., reports CNN. Walker was reportedly riding a dirt bike when he collided with an SUV driven by a 62-year-old woman Thursday night. Walker was treated at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami’s Jackson…
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2 Ky. Juvenile-Detention Staffers Indicted on Misconduct in Death of Gynnya McMillen
Two Kentucky juvenile-detention-center employees have been indicted on an official-misconduct charge in the case involving the death of a teenage girl in January, a prosecutor confirmed Friday, the Associated Press reports. Reginald Windham and Victor Holt were both charged with a count of second-degree official misconduct as the result of a state police investigation into…
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Texas Man Who Raped Girls and Infected Them With HIV Sentenced to Life in Prison
A 34-year-old Texas man who raped a 14-year-old girl and a 24-month-old toddler, infecting both of them with HIV, chlamydia and herpes, has been sentenced to life in prison, KHOU reports. David Wilson, a registered sex offender who served four years in prison for a previous rape of a teen, claimed that he and the…
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Student at Exclusive Sidwell Friends School in DC Reports on Campus Rape by Ex-Boyfriend
A female high school student at the elite, private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., reported to police that she was raped on campus by an ex-boyfriend, D.C. police confirmed Friday, the Associated Press reports. The student told officers that the classmate forced her to have sex in the afternoon and evening hours on Wednesday.…
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‘As Healthy and Beautiful as Ever’: Jahi McMath’s Family Posts New Photo of Teen Declared Brain-Dead 2 Years Ago
Jahi McMath, an Oakland, Calif., teen who was declared brain-dead in December 2013, is as “healthy and beautiful as ever,” according to a post by her mother, Nailah Winkfield, in a Facebook group updated with a new photo of Jahi. Her parents shared the photo of the now 15-year-old on Friday, the first update in…
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FBI Investigating Death of Va. Man Who Died While Handcuffed in Police Custody
On May 4, 2013, South Boston, Va., police were called to a hotel where a man was reportedly causing a disturbance. They found Linwood Lambert Jr., 46, and believed him to be suffering from hallucinations. They cuffed him, put him in a police car and drove him to the Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital for medical…
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Pa. High School Football Coach Resigns Amid ‘No Gay Thursday’ Hazing
A suburban Philadelphia high school football coach has resigned after three senior football players reportedly sexually assaulted a freshman during a hazing the team called “No Gay Thursday.” Longtime Conestoga High School head football coach John Vogan issued his resignation Thursday and made it effective immediately after three 17-year-old students faced charges stemming from an…
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Boston English Teacher Asks Black Student, ‘What’s Up, My N–ger?’ During Lesson on Huckleberry Finn
During a lesson about Huckleberry Finn, a Boston high school English teacher walked over to Destinee Wornum’s desk and said, “What’s up, my [n—ger]?” “I didn’t know what to say,” Destinee, a black 16-year-old, told the Boston Globe about the October 2015 incident at Boston Latin School. “I was uncomfortable and embarrassed.” It was an…