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Watch: Hoops Star Surprises Girlfriend With Epic Proposal During Pickup Game
A former guard at North Carolina State starred this week in his own version of the classic romantic movie Love & Basketball, according to Fox 8 TV. Alex “Superman” Johnson, a player for the Saint John Mill Rats of the National Basketball League of Canada, on Thursday was playing one-on-one with his girlfriend, Brey Dorsett, a…
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Watch: Ohio Judge Orders Assault Suspect to Be ‘Pepper-Sprayed’ by Victim
An Ohio judge this week ordered an assault victim to “pepper-spray” his alleged attacker in an open courtroom in his version of “eye for an eye” justice, according to New York’s WABC-TV. But relax; it wasn’t real pepper spray. It was saline solution—you know, like the mixture used for contact lenses. Here is what happened:…
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Colo. Teen Who Grew Up in Foster Care Is Looking to ‘Rent’ Family for Birthday
Natalie Carson doesn’t want to spend another birthday alone. So the Westminster, Colo., 19-year-old posted an ad on Craigslist saying that she was willing to rent a family so that maybe this birthday would be more memorable. “I am not a weirdo or anything I was just inspired by another girl that rented a family…
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FIFA Officials Indicted by US for Receiving $150 Million in Bribes to Influence World Cup Games
An official who sits on the executive committee of FIFA—the body governing the World Cup international soccer competition—was allegedly given $10 million so that he would vote for South Africa to host the 2010 games. That is just one example, American officials say, of how FIFA and marketing executives have been scheming and bribing officials…
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NC Police Allegedly Pull Guns on Former Duke Basketball Star
Former Duke University basketball star Nolan Smith tweeted about a confrontation with Durham, N.C., police in which officers making a traffic stop approached him, allegedly with guns drawn. Smith was in the state this week preparing for the annual K Academy College Basketball Fantasy Camp when the alleged encounter occurred. According to Sporting News, a…
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Austin, Texas, Official Who Organized a Sexist Lecture on Women in Government Resigns
When more women than men were elected to the Austin, Texas, City Council this year, Anthony Snipes, a city official, decided to organize a training session for council members on how to deal with women in local government, the Associated Press reports. Jonathan Allen, the consultant Snipes hired, dished out recommendations on how to handle…
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Mich. Man Brutally Beaten by Cop Settles for $1.4 Million
Floyd Dent, a Michigan resident who was brutally beaten by a police officer in Inkster during a traffic stop in January, settled his lawsuit for almost $1.4 million on Thursday, The Guardian reports, the same day the officer involved appeared in court to learn whether he would be headed to trial. According to the report,…
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DC Reporter Fatally Shot While Waiting for Bus
Charnice Milton, 27, was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., an area plagued by crime and poverty. She would go on to graduate from Ball State University and earn a master’s degree from Syracuse. She wanted to make a difference in her community, so she returned home to take a job with a local newspaper. “She…
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Officers Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death Were Not Handcuffed When They Were Arrested
Three of the Baltimore officers arrested and charged with various crimes in the death of Freddie Gray are seen in a new video walking from the police van into the jail without handcuffs. According to the Baltimore Sun, the three officers—Caesar R. Goodson Jr., William G. Porter and Edward M. Nero, who all surrendered May…
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It’s Time to Stop Blaming Black-on-Black Crime
For every unarmed black man, woman or child killed by unrestrained police officers, there’s an intellectually impoverished response when black people get visibly upset about it: What about black-on-black crime? There was a time, in another surreal reality not so long ago, when conservative pundits reflexively grimaced at even the mention of it—and, oh, that…