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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…

On Monday, 57-year-old Barbara Dawson went to the Liberty Calhoun Hospital in Tallahassee, Fla., because she was having trouble breathing. She was checked by a doctor, who found that she was fine and could be discharged. But Dawson didn’t feel better, so she refused to leave. Police were called, and Dawson was handcuffed and escorted…

Corey Green, 32, was playing cards with friends in his Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment on Saturday when police officers busted his door in looking for a robbery suspect, his dad, John Green, 52, told the New York Post. John Green claims that the police made all the men leave their card game for an impromptu lineup…

Lakeisha Holloway currently sits in the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, pending a formal bail hearing Tuesday morning. She is on suicide watch. She is being held without bail and is expected to be charged with several felonies, including murder with a deadly weapon, after the 24-year-old mother reportedly drove onto a Las…