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Mo. Lawmakers Get Into Alley Fistfight Over Right-to-Work Legislation
Two members of the Missouri House of Representatives reportedly got into an alley fistfight over right-to-work legislation, ultimately prompting one of them to seek a restraining order, the Associated Press reports. State Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis reportedly released a copy of the restraining order and a House ethics complaint that he filed against fellow Democratic…
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‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch to Return to Texas to Face Charges
Infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch is going to drop an appeal against his deportation from Mexico and will return to Texas to face the charges awaiting him there, his lawyer in Mexico, Fernando Benitez, revealed, according to The Guardian. Couch reportedly formally decided to drop the appeal Monday. “I gave him several options, but he…
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1 Dead as Feds Arrest Ammon Bundy, 7 Others in Oregon Wildlife-Refuge Takeover
The FBI and Oregon State Police have arrested members of a group of armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, including group leader Ammon Bundy, USA Today reports. Authorities moved in on the group around 4:25 p.m. PST Tuesday along Highway 395 during a traffic stop.…
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Medical Examiner Rules Death of Fla. Inmate, Locked in Scalding Shower, an ‘Accident’
A civil rights group is growing more insistent in its calls for a federal inquiry after a medical examiner ruled the death of an inmate locked in a scalding shower for two hours by prison guards an accident, The Guardian reports. Darren Rainey, an inmate at Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution, died in June 2012 after he…
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Chicago Teen Killed by Police Called 911 3 Times Asking for Help, and Dispatcher Hung Up on Him
Quintonio LeGrier, the Chicago teen who was fatally shot by police, called 911 three times the day he was killed, asking for help, and was hung up on by a 911 operator, ABC News reports. According to ABC News, audio of the 19-year-old’s 911 calls made Dec. 26 were released late Monday by Chicago’s Independent…
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14 Citadel Cadets Disciplined After Caroling in KKK-Style White Hoods
Fourteen cadets at the Citadel, the Military School of South Carolina, in Charleston have been punished after a number of them appeared in photos wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods over their heads while caroling in early December, the New York Daily News reports. The punishments come after about a month of investigation. The investigation was…
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Man Transforms Home Into Museum of Love in Tribute to Late Wife
Love knows no bounds and has no limits. Charles “LaLa” Evans seems to know that well: He created a museum of love in his own home as a tribute to his late wife, Louise, who died in 2011 just one month shy of their 60th wedding anniversary. According to the Huffington Post, the couple had…
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Ariz. High School Girl Apologizes After Human N-Word Collage
A student at Desert Vista High School in Arizona who was in a now viral photo of six students spelling out the n-word with their lettered shirts has publicly apologized at a rally for her part in the fiasco, the Arizona Republic reports. About 50 people showed up outside the high school Monday afternoon to protest…
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SC Barber and Customer Open Fire on Armed Robbers Inside Barbershop
Two armed robbers picked the wrong barbershop in South Carolina to stick up Friday after a barber and a client, both of whom had concealed carry permits, opened fire on the men, killing one and sending the other back out the door. According to WLTX, the second suspect is still on the loose following the…
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President Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prison
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama announced an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, citing the potential long-term psychological effects. Obama began his piece, which appears in Tuesday’s edition of the Post, by outlining the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was arrested for…