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Legendary Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon Dead at 83
Meadowlark Lemon, known and loved for his antics on the court as part of the iconic traveling basketball show the Harlem Globetrotters, died Sunday in Arizona at the age of 83, leaving the world with a little less laughter, the New York Times reports. Incredibly talented as an athlete, Lemon joined the team in 1954…
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Chicago Police Shooting: Victims’ Family and Friends Demand Answers
Bettie Jones, 55, received a call early Saturday morning asking if she could help police gain access to her building. According to ABC 7 Chicago, Jones’ neighbor in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was wielding a bat and acting erratically, so his father called police and then called downstairs to ask if…
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Fla. Man Arrested in McDonald’s Shooting Over Food Order: Report
A Florida man has been arrested, accused of opening fire inside a local McDonald’s after an argument with another man about his food order. According to the Miami Herald, police arrested 23-year-old Devin Gibbs of Miami on Saturday in connection with the shooting inside the fast-food restaurant. A witness told WSVN that the suspect and another…
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Calif. School Principal to Donate Kidney to Former Student
A San Francisco Bay Area vice principal is spending the Christmas recess preparing to undergo a kidney transplant to save her former student, the Washington Post reports. Christine Buell is donating her organ on Dec. 29 to Kelvin Sanders, 19, who has end-stage renal disease. She learned from perusing Facebook about his sudden illness and…
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Price Tag in the Millions to Display Removed SC Confederate Flag in a Museum
It could cost South Carolina taxpayers up to $3.6 million to display a Confederate battle flag that flew over the Statehouse in a state museum, the Charlotte Observer reports. That proposed price tag is a markdown from the original $5.3 million that the commission for the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum voted to spend.…
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Man Fatally Shot by Deputy While Trying to Disarm His Son
Bobby Daniels’ family—some of them eyewitnesses to his death—held a news conference in suburban Atlanta Wednesday to tell their version of what led to his fatal shooting by a Douglas County, Ga., deputy, the Washington Post reports. Chris Stewart, the civil rights attorney representing the slain man’s family, said the relatives want law-enforcement officials to…
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College Student, Mother of 5 Killed by Chicago Cops; Families Demand Answers
It’s unclear what led to a deadly shooting by Chicago police early Saturday morning. Two families are asking why officers responding to a domestic dispute killed a teenager and a woman, the Chicago Tribune reports. By that evening, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that “anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless…
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Obamas Thank Troops in Touching Holiday Message
Less than a week after six U.S. airmen were killed in a suicide bombing while on patrol outside Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base, the first family issued a touching holiday message of thanks to the nation’s troops, according to the Washington Post. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spent part of their Christmas Day…
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Janet Jackson Postpones Unbreakable World Tour to Undergo Surgery
In a heartfelt social media message to fans on Christmas Eve, superstar singer and dancer Janet Jackson announced that she was postponing her Unbreakable World Tour to undergo surgery. “It breaks my heart to tell you that I am forced to postpone the Unbreakable Tour until the spring,” the 49-year-old star said in a message…
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William Guest, Member of Gladys Knight and the Pips, Dies
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,…