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Utah Boy Surprised With Books After Asking Mail Carrier for Junk Mail to Read
Most 12-year-olds of the 21st century are about that digital life, playing video games, watching TV and, yes, for some, playing outside. But 12-year-old Matthew Flores likes to read … anything. That’s how his local Sandy, Utah, mail carrier became aware of the boy and his penchant for going through mail that typically no one…
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Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Never Met With Freddie Gray’s Family: Report
Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts did not meet with the family of Freddie Gray after the 25-year-old’s death in police custody in April, a claim that he made on several occasions, according to the family’s attorney. According to the Baltimore Sun, once the Gray family’s attorney William H. Murphy Jr. found out that Batts…
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What We Know About Ralkina Jones
Ralkina Jones. That is the name of a Cleveland mother who on Sunday became the latest person to mysteriously die while in jail. The 37-year-old was arrested on Friday following a domestic dispute. Although family visited her on Saturday and attested to her good health at the time, she was found dead in her cell…
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Native American Activist Died in Jail a Day After Sandra Bland
The family and friends of Rexdale Henry, a Native American activist, are comparing his mysterious in-custody death in Mississippi to that of Sandra Bland, the black woman who died in a Texas jail, the Jackson Free Press reports. “At a time when the nation is focused on the terrible circumstances of the brutal death of…
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Watch: Ga. Child’s Birthday Turns Tense as Men With Confederate Flags Threaten to Kill ‘N–gers’
On Saturday a black child’s birthday party in Douglasville, Ga., took a racist turn after, witnesses say, several men driving Confederate-flag-bearing pickup trucks interrupted the gathering and began yelling racial slurs and threats at the partygoers. “One had a gun, saying he was gonna kill the [racial slur],” Melissa Alford, who hosted the party at…
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NYC Principal Commits Suicide After Test-Score Scandal Exposed
The principal of Teachers College Community School in West Harlem reportedly threw herself in front of an oncoming train after a whistleblower notified the New York City Department of Education that she had altered third-graders’ test scores. According to the New York Post, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden’s death April 17 came less than 24 hours after the…
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Baby ‘AirForceOne Barack Obama’ Born During Obama’s Weekend Visit to Kenya
Turns out that several Kenyans, in honor of President Barack Obama’s visit to his ancestral homeland over the weekend, took to naming their newborns after the president and even Air Force One. According to ABC News, Baby AirForceOne (full name: “AirForceOne Barack Obama”) was one of three babies born in Kisumu, Kenya, on Friday who…
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Ind. Officer’s Son Attacks Man Filming Arrest During Ride-Along: Report
Evansville, Ind., police are reviewing their ride-along policies after an officer’s son, who was with his father for the evening as part of the program, allegedly assaulted a man who was filming his dad making an arrest, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. One of the questions being asked in the process, according to the…
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Chicago Community Outraged After Cops Tow Car From Crime Scene With Dead Bodies Inside
Residents of a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side were seen on video berating police officers after a car was removed from a crime scene with the bodies of victims still inside, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The video, titled “So Damn Disrespectful, This Is Just Not Right,” was uploaded to YouTube by user “Jay Hustle” and…
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37-Year-Old Woman Found Dead in Cleveland Jail: Update
Updated Monday, July 27, 6 p.m. EDT: Ralkina Jones, 37, of Cleveland argued with an ex outside a Save-a-Lot store in Cleveland Heights Friday before she was arrested and charged with “assault, domestic violence, endangering a child and criminal mischief,” according to CBS 5. According to Cleveland Heights police officials who spoke with the news…