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Md. Woman Dies After Receiving Butt-Enhancement Silicone Injections in an NYC Basement
Kelly Mayhew, a 34-year-old Maryland woman, was having silicone injected into her buttocks to enlarge them Saturday, her mother told police, when she became short of breath, was rushed to a nearby hospital and died, the New York Daily News reports. Mayhew, a freelancer for BET Networks, was having the cosmetic procedure administered in the…
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La. Deputy Allegedly Called Sheriff’s Office Employee ‘Stupid, Ungrateful N–ger’
A sheriff’s second-in-command in Louisiana is accused of discriminating against a co-worker and using a racial slur against the employee, the New Orleans Advocate reports. Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jerry Ursin allegedly threatened employee Ronald Coleman Sr., calling him a “stupid, ungrateful n—ger” during an altercation involving parking last summer, the news site notes.…
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Head of the TSA Reassigned After Undercover Agents Smuggle Fake Bombs Through Airport Security
Undercover federal agents managed to smuggle fake explosives and weapons through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints 67 out of the 70 times they tried to do so at dozens of airports around the country, the Associated Press reports. As a result, Melvin Carraway, the acting administrator of the TSA, has been reassigned and the entire agency…
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Black Bus Driver Says He Was Called ‘Monkey’ and ‘Blackie’ at Jewish School in Brooklyn, NY
“Monkey” and “blackie” were only two of the racially charged slurs that were allegedly hurled at the only black bus driver at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., Newsweek reports. Willis Baker claims in a lawsuit that while employed at the United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Inc. last year, he was not only…
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55 People Treated for Food-Poisoning Symptoms at Salt Lake City Homeless Shelter
More than 50 people staying in a homeless shelter in Salt Lake City were rushed to the emergency room this weekend to be treated for symptoms related to food poisoning, Raw Story reports. The group—which included 55 men, women and children—suffered from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. They were all temporary residents of the Road Home…
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4-Year-Old Boy Hit by Car Miraculously Escapes Serious Injury
An out-of-control car was caught on surveillance camera as it hopped a curb, hit a tree and ran over a 4-year-old boy who was walking on the sidewalk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. According to WABC, the child survived the Monday-afternoon crash with only a few bruises and escaped more serious injury. Neighbors who saw…
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Minn. School Puts 6-Year-Old on Wrong School Bus Home … Twice!
Ciare Mckenzie took her 6-year-old child to Bancroft Elementary in Minneapolis, and twice, the school placed her daughter on the wrong bus home. According to Fox 9, on Wednesday Jomyra Mckenzie was placed on a bus that dropped her at the corner of 37th and Snelling when she was supposed to have been dropped off at…
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Report: Mo. Police Disproportionately Stop and Search Black Drivers
Missouri police were more likely to stop and search black drivers than white drivers in 2014, yet they were more likely to find contraband with white drivers, an annual Missouri attorney general report reveals, according to the New York Times. According to the report, police were 75 percent more likely to stop black motorists than…
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Did Fla. Police Lie About Jermaine McBean Not Wearing Earbuds During Fatal Shooting?
On July 13, 2013, 33-year-old Jermaine McBean had just purchased a BB gun from a Florida store and was headed home when police spotted him. Police say McBean ignored their orders to drop the weapon, so they fired shots, killing the information-technology specialist. A nurse on the scene that day says that police stopped her…