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This 110-Year-Old’s Secret to Life: 3 Beers, a Shot of Scotch Daily and God
Agnes Fenton was born 110 years ago—Aug. 1, 1905—in Mississippi. However, she doesn’t view her astonishing longevity as any big deal. “The birthday is just another day,” she said of the superspecial day, now come and gone, that ushered her into the “supercentenarian” club, North Jersey Media Group reports. Although she doesn’t always have great days,…
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Va. Youth Basketball Team Banned From Championships Because of Female Teammate
Kymora Johnson has been playing with the Charlottesville Cavaliers under-11 team since she was 6 years old. Despite that fact, the entire Virginia basketball team was disqualified Saturday from the National Travel Basketball Association’s national championship tournament because Kymora is, obviously, a girl. “She’s played in hundreds of tournaments and two prior NTBA national championship…
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Darren Wilson: I Only Knew Michael Brown for the 45 Seconds He Tried to Kill Me
It’s been a year since now-former Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson gunned down unarmed teen Michael Brown after an alleged confrontation. During that time, Wilson has had to think about his part in Brown’s death but apparently hasn’t given much thought to Brown as a person, according to an extensive profile in the New…
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Man Allegedly Rams Into St. Louis Police Car ‘for the Black People’
A St. Louis man was charged on Sunday for allegedly ramming into a police car and injuring two officers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Kevin Labriado, 48, was charged with two counts of second-degree assault on a law-enforcement officer and child endangerment. Labriado’s 5-year-old daughter, along with other individuals, was in the car at the time…
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Sandra Bland’s Family Files Federal Wrongful Death Lawsuit
The family of Sandra Bland—demanding accountability for the Illinois woman’s death while in police custody at a Texas jail—filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, KHOU-TV reports. “We are looking for Waller County and the individuals involved to take accountability,” family attorney Cannon Lambert Sr. said, according to the Houston news station. The wrongful death suit…
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Watch: Fla. Officer Assaults and Arrests Woman After She Calls Cop’s Son Rude
Deidra Reid and Reginald Lane Jr. thought they were just going to visit a friend Monday, maybe hang out by the pool, but an encounter with a young boy whose father is a Orange County, Fla., deputy sheriff ended with the pair being arrested and Reid’s arm in a sling. “This is someone who used…
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Bottle of Gin Shown in Sam Dubose Traffic Stop Was Actually Air Freshener
Turns out that the gin bottle Samuel Dubose handed to a University of Cincinnati officer, who would later kill him with a single gunshot to the head, didn’t contain gin at all but was, in fact, filled as Dubose had said: with air freshener. The July 19 exchange between Officer Ray Tensing, 33, and Dubose, 43,…
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Special Prosecutor to Investigate Death of Raynette Turner, NY Mother of 8 Who Died in Police Custody
There will be an investigation into the death of Raynette Turner, a mother of eight, who died in a Mount Vernon, N.Y., police holding cell while in custody last week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Monday, according to the Huffington Post. “My office’s Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit will investigate the death of…
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Lawsuit Details Brutal Attack on Innocent Man by Shreveport, La., Cops Who Allegedly Beat and Sodomized Him
A Houston man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Shreveport, La., and several police officers who he alleges falsely arrested and brutalized him, including sodomizing him with a nightstick while he was in the back of a patrol car, the Shreveport Times reports. According to the lawsuit, Desmond Lewis was walking away…
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Car-Theft Suspect Tried to Chew Off Fingerprints to Avoid Being Identified
A man accused of stealing a Mercedes-Benz in Florida thought that the best way to avoid being identified was to gnaw at his fingertips to forgo the fingerprinting process, the Huffington Post reports. Kenzo Roberts was arrested July 30 after Lee County sheriff’s deputies saw a 2015 Mercedes-Benz automobile that had been reported stolen. According…