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Venus Williams Defeats Vinci to Avenge Serena’s US Open Loss
Venus Williams triumphed over Roberta Vinci Friday in a hard-won three-set match to reach the Wuhan Open finals, news agency Agence France-Presse reports. The win appears to settle the score for her younger sister, Serena, who fell to Italy’s Vinci last month at the U.S. Open, upending her historic bid to complete a calendar-year grand slam.…
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James Bell, Retired Boeing CFO, Joins Apple Board
James A. Bell, former chief financial officer and corporate president of the Boeing Co., has been elected to Apple’s board of directors, according to a statement from Apple. During his 38-year tenure at Boeing, he also oversaw Boeing Capital Corp. and Boeing Shared Services, and he was interim CEO of the Boeing Co. in 2005,…
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Ore. College Shooter, Identified as Chris Harper Mercer, Singled Out Christians, Father of Victim Says
Multiple law-enforcement officials have identified the shooter who killed 10 people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, even as Douglas County, Ore., Sheriff John Hanlin remains firm in his stance that he “will never” utter the shooter’s name, CNN reports. In an interview on New Day Friday, Hanlin reiterated…
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Mom of Del. Man in Wheelchair Who Was Fatally Shot by Police Is Arrested
Phyllis McDole, the mother of a Delaware man in a wheelchair whose fatal shooting by police was captured on video, was arrested for allegedly beating a woman she believed called the police on her son, but according to police, the victim was not the 911 caller. Wilmington police fatally shot Jeremy McDole, 28, Sept. 23…
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Women Kicked Off Napa Wine Train for Laughing While Black File $11,000,000 Lawsuit
Members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club, who were kicked off California’s Napa Valley Wine Train in August, have filed suit against the train’s owners, seeking $11 million in damages, charging that they were singled out because the majority of the group is black and that they were humiliated for supposedly “being too…
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‘Pretendian’: Meet Susan Taffe Reed, the ‘Native American’ Rachel Dolezal
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Woman hired into a top-level position for a job with heavy racial focus is let go after people protest whether said woman is, in fact, being truthful about her race. On Thursday, Dartmouth announced that newly hired Native American Program Director Susan Taffe Reed, who claimed she was…
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103-Year-Old Ga. Woman Who Was Banned From Church Returns After Pastor Leaves
Genora Hamm Biggs will be going back to her church, the church she’s been going to since she was 11 years old, and now she is in charge, Fox News reports. Last month Biggs made news after she was expelled from her church, the Union Grove Baptist Church in Elberton, Ga., after a dispute with the…
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Mass Shooting at Ore. Community College Leaves 10 Dead
Updated Thursday, Oct. 1, 8:15 p.m. ET: According to USA Today, the suspected 26-year-old lone gunman was shot and killed by officers at Umpqua Community College. The suspect is believed to be a local man with family in the area, according to a federal law-enforcement official. CNN also reports that seven people were injured; earlier…
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Ala. to Close 31 Satellite DMV Offices in Counties Where 75 Percent of Voters Are Black
Alabama requires a photo ID to vote. This week Alabama decided to announce that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in certain counties because of budget cuts. Those counties happen to contain the highest percentage of nonwhite voters, an AL.com columnist has pointed out. According to the report, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced (pdf)…
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NJ Corrections Officers Fired for ‘Highly Inflammatory and Racist’ Texts in Group Chats
In an August decision made public Tuesday, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission refused to overturn the firing of a corrections officer who reportedly exchanged racist text messages with co-workers in group chats on cellphones smuggled into Camden County Jail, the Courier-Post reports. According to the report, Thomas McNulty was one of nine officers working…