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Manhattan Detention Center Officer Charged With Smuggling Drugs Into Jail and Selling to Inmates
A 43-year-old New York City correction officer was arrested and charged with allegedly smuggling drugs—including crack cocaine and marijuana—into the Manhattan Detention Center and selling them in the jail, the New York Post reports. Patricia Howard was arrested Saturday night and charged with criminal possession of marijuana and crack cocaine as well as criminal possession…
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9 Ga. Deputies Fired in Death of Black Man Who Was Tased While Restrained
The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia fired nine deputies on Friday after investigations by its internal-affairs division and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation into the death of an inmate who was tased while restrained, WTOC reports. Matthew Ajibade, 22, reportedly died while in an isolation cell on New Year’s Day. He had been handcuffed…
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Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After Brutal Beating of Md. Man
Two teens are facing charges after allegedly beating and severely injuring a Maryland man last week, WJZ reports. Authorities are expecting to make more arrests in the incident that left 61-year-old Richard Fletcher of Dundalk in Baltimore County with broken eye sockets, a broken nose, broken ribs and a brain bleed, the news station notes.…
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Satan, a Ga. Educator and Her Son: The Racist School-Graduation Rant Continues
On Friday, Nancy Gordeuk, the founder of TNT Academy in Lilburn, Ga., went viral after she spouted racist comments at a graduation ceremony during which she forgot about the valedictorian’s speech and then became upset when students, thinking the program was done, began leaving before the speech was over. Gordeuk tried to get people to…
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Ben Carson: My Proposed Tax Plan Is From the Bible
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says that he pulled his proposed tax plan straight out of the Bible, Raw Story reports. It’s “tithing,” the former neurosurgeon explained to Fox News host Chris Wallace Sunday, describing his plan as one in which everyone would pay according to his or her ability. “You make $10 billion a…
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Miss. Subway Sandwich-Shop Worker Fired for Allegedly Gloating on Facebook About 2 Slain Cops
Sierra Mccurdy was fired from her job at a Subway sandwich shop for allegedly gloating in a Facebook post about how two Mississippi police officers were slain Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. In screenshots that have circulated online, a post from Mccurdy’s Facebook account read: “2 police officers was shot in Hattiesburg tonight!…
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WNBA Players Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson Get Married
WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were married Friday afternoon at an outdoor ceremony on a mountaintop in Phoenix, the couple tells People magazine. About 75 guests attended the ceremony as the women, both 24, married beneath an archway at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, the report says. They were surrounded by an…
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Watch: Ga. Principal Slammed for Racial Slur at Graduation
A Georgia principal is under fire after making offensive remarks about blacks at a graduation ceremony Friday night, according to MyFoxAtlanta. Nancy Gordeuk, the principal of TNT Academy in Lilburn, Ga., apologized Saturday for remarks she made after becoming upset when students began leaving before the valedictorian’s speech. She yelled at students and even called…
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Watch: Million Moms March Against Police Brutality and Racial Injustice
In an effort to draw attention to police brutality and racial injustice, scores of mothers marched Saturday in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the problems, reports USA Today. Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United, helped organize the Million Moms March along with the Coalition for Justice, the report says. Dontre, Hamilton’s 31-year-old…
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3 Arrested After 2 Miss. Cops Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop
Two brothers and a woman were arrested early Sunday on charges of shooting and killing two Hattiesburg, Miss., police officers during a routine traffic stop that took place just hours earlier, according to the Chicago Tribune. Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks’…