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Watch: Man Breaks Down When Judge Recognizes Him as Former Classmate
Arthur Booth, 49, was in Miami-Dade Circuit Court for a bond hearing Thursday when the judge recognized him as a former middle school classmate, triggering a tearful outburst from the defendant, according to the Huffington Post. Booth, a burglary suspect, appeared before Florida judge Mindy Glazer, who at the end of the proceedings asked him…
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Malia Obama Lands Internship on Lena Dunham’s Girls
Elder first daughter Malia Obama has been seen on the set of Lena Dunham’s hit HBO show Girls in Brooklyn, N.Y., since landing her second television entertainment internship, reports the Daily Mail. Malia, who turns 17 on the Fourth of July, was on the set of Girls on Thursday at Aurora Ristorante, the Mail writes,…
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Baltimore Probes ‘Enjoy Your Ride’ Sign in Police Van
Just months after Baltimore resident Freddie Gray was fatally injured while being transported in the back of a police van, city officials are investigating a photograph of a sign inside the rear door of a similar transport vehicle that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will,” CNN reports. The image has emerged amid smoldering…
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Fire at Historic SC Black Church Ruled ‘Natural’
There was reportedly no criminal intent behind the fire overnight Tuesday at a historic black church in Greeleyville, S.C. According to local investigators, along with the the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the blaze at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church must have been sparked by “natural causes,” according to reporting by NBC News.…
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Dustin Brown Stuns Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon
He was trained in his father’s home country of Jamaica but now plays for his mother’s native Germany, according to The Independent. Today Dustin Brown, ranked 102nd in the world, is celebrating a stunner in the tennis world, knocking out two-time Wimbledon champ Rafael Nadal in four sets: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. It’s the first time…
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Dylann Roof’s Sister Created GoFundMe Asking for Wedding, Honeymoon Donations After Emanuel AME Massacre
Talk about classy. Amber Roof, the sister of accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooter Dylann Roof, created a GoFundMe page asking for help financing her wedding and honeymoon, hoping to raise some $5,000, the Post and Courier reports. The page, which the news site notes has since been removed, had raised almost $1,500 of…
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Black Man Arrested After Admitting to Posting Racist Signs Outside Black Churches
A Colorado Springs, Colo., man was arrested Tuesday after admitting to local station KRDO that he was the one who posted racially charged signs outside two churches and around the city, KRDO reports. Vincent Broughton, who is black, faces charges of committing a bias-motivated crime, disorderly conduct, harassment and littering, the news site notes. The…
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SC Female Pastors Get Threatening Letters: ‘You and Your Children Will Die’
Three female pastors in South Carolina have received threatening letters, Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett has confirmed, WLTX reports. The letters addressed to the pastors of the Greater Union Cypress African Methodist Episcopal Church, Society Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church and Reeseville African Methodist Episcopal Church came from someone calling himself the apostle prophet Harry L.…
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Poll: Many Still See Confederate Flag as Symbol of Southern Pride
Even after the South Carolina church massacre during which nine African-American worshippers were fatally shot, and the subsequent public outcry that the Confederate flag be removed from the Statehouse, a new CNN/ORC poll shows that public opinion on the flag has not changed in 15 years. According to the poll, most still believe that the…
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Man Arrested Over $749 Cab Fare
On Saturday, John S. Williams Jr. and his children took a cab from Philadelphia to Uniontown, Pa., to surprise his fiancee, but the person who got the biggest surprise was the cabbie, who officials say had driven some 300 miles, only to be stiffed on the fare. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Williams, 35, told…