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William Guest, a member of Gladys Knight and the Pips who performed throughout the lifespan of the Grammy-winning group from 1953 to 1989, has died, according to the Associated Press. He died of congestive heart failure on Thursday in Detroit, said his sister-in-law, Dhyana Ziegler, notes the report. He was 74. During the group’s heyday,…

Police shot and killed an 18-year-old rapper at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, N.C., on Christmas Eve, according to Newsweek. The shootings sent last-minute shoppers dashing for cover in the deadly and chaotic scene ripped straight from headlines. Daquan Antonio Westbrook, also known as Donkey Cartel, was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident began just…

Newly released audio recordings indicate that at least one Chicago officer asked radio dispatch for Taser support to subdue 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Radio calls made Oct. 20, 2014, and obtained by NBC Chicago and released Wednesday, demonstrate that minutes before the teen was fatally shot 16 times, an officer tried to request nonlethal force. “Someone…

Ben Carson downplayed reports of plans to reorganize his apparently troubled presidential campaign—just hours after suggesting that a major shake-up was coming. Carson told CNN Wednesday night that reports of personnel changes and confusion in his camp were overhyped. But earlier that day, in a Washington Post interview, the GOP presidential candidate blamed his falling…

An Idaho lunch lady was canned just days before Christmas for giving a hungry middle school student with no money a $1.70 lunch. “I handed her the food and said, ‘Here, we’ll take care of it in a minute,” ‘ Irving Middle School cafeteria worker Dalene Bowden told KPVI after the Dec. 15 incident. Bowden says…

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 23, 5:58 p.m. EST: According to a press release put out by several Black Lives Matter chapters, the protests are part of a “Black Xmas” campaign happening in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.  Declaring Dec. 23 “Black Xmas,” protesters referenced the death of Sandra…

A couple was arrested on charges they attacked a legally blind Salvation Army bell ringer whom, police say, they accused of cutting in front of the line at a White Plains, N.Y., restaurant. According to CBS New York, police said that 30-year-old Juan Rodriguez and 21-year-old Audrianna Wignal attacked the 41-year-old bell ringer around 3…

In 1988 a Colorado man was convicted of raping a woman. The victim, according to the Associated Press, had been out drinking the night in August 1987 when she was attacked. When she reported the assault to police, she initially named a different man as her attacker (who would later say that he had sex…

A white Jacksonville, Fla., woman faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to a federal officer about whether she’d placed an image of a Confederate flag on a black co-worker’s desk.   Susan Thompson and the co-worker were federal workers at the Jacksonville office of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to…