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Ga. Woman Charged With Murder, Held Without Bond After Taking Abortion Pill
A Georgia woman is facing a murder charge after prematurely delivering a baby after taking an abortion pill, WALB reports. Kenlissa Jones has been charged with malice murder and possession of a dangerous drug and was being held at the Dougherty County Jail without bond, the news station reports. According to WALB, over the weekend,…
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Report: Md. Mom, 24, Arrested After She Left Baby Alone While She Went Drinking
Guests of the American Inn of Bethesda in Maryland thought something was strange Sunday when they began hearing the wails, screams and crying of a baby around 9:30 p.m. They contacted the hotel’s front desk, which went to the room to investigate. When staffers’ knocks went unanswered, they opened the door and found a 1-year-old…
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Teen Paralyzed by Stray Bullet Faces Shooter in Court
Tayloni Mazyck, 13, has needed a wheelchair to get around ever since she was paralyzed by a Brooklyn, N.Y., gang member two years ago after being caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting. On Monday, according to the New York Post, the teen faced her shooter in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Young Bosses gang member…
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Miss. School District Drops Charges Against Family Members Cheering at Graduation
Supporters at a high school graduation who cheered when their loved ones’ names were called won’t be charged after all, after a Mississippi school superintendent announced Monday that the school district would withdraw its complaints, Fox News reports. “I’ve had a lot of negative phone calls and emails, but I’ve also had a lot of…
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McKinney Resident: Cop ‘Deserves a Medal’ for Pulling Gun on Black Kids at Pool Party
The media sphere is still reeling from the video footage that surfaced of a McKinney, Texas, police officer pulling his service weapon on teens and manhandling them at a pool party in their neighborhood. But at least one McKinney resident is standing by the police, insisting that the actions taken were appropriate. “I want everyone…
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Texas Teen Slammed by Cop Speaks Out: ‘The Officer Getting Fired Is Not Enough’
Dajerria Becton, the 15-year-old McKinney, Texas, teenager who was slammed to the ground by a police officer while attending a pool party, is speaking out about the horrifying ordeal, describing how she wants the officer’s punishment to be severe, Fox 4 News reports. “He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the…
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NYC Teen Whose McDonald’s Beating Went Viral Is Arrested, Found With 2 Guns: Report
Elizabeth Ballinger, the 17-year-old who was viciously jumped by at least four other girls inside a Brooklyn, N.Y., McDonald’s in May, was arrested Saturday, accused of carrying two guns, the Nw York Daily News reports. The May assault—in which Ballinger was repeatedly pummeled, punched and kicked by her attackers while a crowd of several dozen…
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Jalen Rose Leadership Academy’s Entire Inaugural Graduating Class Headed to Promising Future
In 2011, Jalen Rose put his money where his heart is and started a school in his hometown of Detroit. On Saturday the 13-year NBA player-turned-ESPN and ABC analyst told the 100 young men and women of the school’s first graduating class, “The only person that you are destined to become is the person you…
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105-Year-Old Golden State Warriors Fan: ‘They Are Going to Win’
Ms. Sweetie is going to be 106 years old soon, but the spry “human being”—she doesn’t like calling herself an old lady—is an avid basketball fan, and nothing is going to stop her from cheering on her favorite team, the Golden State Warriors, as they play in the NBA Finals. In an interview with ESPN,…
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Young Man Who Spent 3 Years at Rikers Island as a Teen Without Being Convicted Kills Himself
Kalief Browder, 22, who struggled with readjusting to society after being jailed at New York City’s Rikers Island for three unexplained years without a conviction or even a trial, has died, the New Yorker reports. The young man reportedly ended his life over the weekend after pulling out an air conditioner in one of the…