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Two passengers who “appeared to be intoxicated” aboard a cross-country Spirit Airlines fight took out a boom box and began playing music loudly, according to a Spirit Airlines statement. When passengers asked the women to lower the music, an all-out brawl broke out. According to NBC News, the incident took place on the Baltimore-to-Los Angeles…

Wisconsin police are looking for a 24-year-old woman who is alleged to have shot and killed a pregnant woman after an argument over loud music. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, early Sunday morning, Shanika S. Minor confronted Tamecca A. Perry, 23, who was 39-40 weeks pregnant, over music coming from her apartment. The two argued,…

Eric Gaines, a police officer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, was waiting for a bus when he spotted a teen standing near a sleeping homeless man. Many people had passed the homeless man, who, Gaines said, is familiar to the area. But the teenager “walked over to him and just knelt down and put…

Two Baltimore school police officers, one of whom was reportedly recorded slapping and kicking a teen, have been charged with second-degree child abuse by a custodian and misconduct in office, NBC News reports. Anthony Spence, 44, and Saverna Bias, 53, were both charged Tuesday and posted bail Wednesday morning. In the video, which was reportedly…

President Barack Obama will not be attending former first lady Nancy Reagan’s funeral on Friday because he was already scheduled to appear at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Texas. According to the New York Post, first lady Michelle Obama is expected to attend the funeral on behalf of the Obamas and will also…

Pennsylvania police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a Brownsville woman who is accused of cyberbullying her teen son’s ex-girlfriend, including sending to the girl’s family via Facebook a nude photo the girl had taken of herself a few years ago. Danita Michaux, 40, is wanted on charges that include felony sexual abuse of children, cyber harassment…

On Wednesday, Univision News, along with the Washington Post, will host the next Democratic presidential debate in Miami, the second time in just four days that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will face off. The debate, which takes place at Miami-Dade College, will air in Spanish on Univision and will be simulcast in English on…

Attorney General Loretta Lynch has asked the White House to withdraw her name for consideration regarding the open Supreme Court seat, according to a spokesperson from the Department of Justice Tuesday.  The seat has been open since Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death in mid-February. “As the conversation around the Supreme Court vacancy progressed, the…