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6 Prison Officials Are Fired and 29 Suspended for Leaving Mentally Ill Inmate in Disgusting Cell
Pink slips are flying in a Houston prison after Deterrius “Terry” Rashad Goodwin, an inmate with a history of mental illness, was placed for several weeks in an unkempt isolation cell that contained dozens of food trays, “an infestation of gnats” and Goodwin’s feces, KRPC reports. Six officials at the Harris County Jail have been fired, and…
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La. Oil Executive and Son Allegedly Killed by Armed Teens
Two teens have been charged with murder in the deaths of a Louisiana oil-company manager and his son, authorities revealed Sunday, according to the Daily Mail. Neither Haraqyon Degruy, 18, nor her friend Dexter Allen, 17, have any “significant” criminal history, officials say, and authorities are still trying to figure out the motive for the…
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Ga. Teacher Killed in Car Accident While Driving to School to Chaperone the Prom
A Georgia high school teacher lost her life on Saturday after a car she was driving collided with a vehicle carrying two students from her school, the New York Daily News reports. Both parties were en route to the school prom, where O’Brien was going to be a chaperone. Leah O’Brien, a teacher at Lakeside…
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Thousands Attend Freddie Gray’s Funeral in Baltimore
Thousands of people, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), attended the funeral of Freddie Gray at the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore on Monday, USA Today reports. Senior members of the Obama administration were also expected to attend, CNN reports, including officials who manage the White House’s outreach to the public and…
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Bronx Man Arrested After 18 Pounds of Pot Found in Checked Luggage at Airport: Report
A Bronx, N.Y., man preparing for a trip to the Caribbean was taken into custody at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y., after authorities found 18 pounds of pot in his checked baggage, the New York Post reports. According to the report, Kelvin Smith, whom the Post described as “a career … drug criminal,” was pulled…
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Del. Woman Charged in Stabbing Death of ‘Cheating’ Husband
Police were called to the Delaware home of a couple after an argument between the two turned violent. By the time authorities arrived, they found 37-year-old Adeyinka Adebamiro unconscious on the floor suffering from a stab wound to the upper body. Paramedics pronounced him dead shortly after their arrival. The victim’s wife, Temitope Adebamiro, has been…
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Every US High School to Get Free DVD of Selma
If there is a high school student who hasn’t seen Selma, Paramount Home Media Distribution is hoping to change that. On Friday the movie company announced that every high school—public and private—in the U.S. will receive a free copy of the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, which is available in digital HD and is set…
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Police Actually Do Show Restraint—When They’re Facing Armed White Guys
As a ceaseless flat line of tragedies snuffs out the lives of young brothers, one peculiar parallel trend emerges: For every unarmed black man who dies at the hands of white police officers, it seems as if there’s one armed white man who survives such an encounter. In a way, that flies in the face…
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Watch: Fla. Man Complains About Being ‘Stuck’ With Kids After Their Mom Is Injured in Random Shooting
David Stephens of Jacksonville, Fla., apparently found himself in a serious predicament earlier this week after the 24-year-old mother of his two children was shot in random gunfire: caring for his kids, according to News4Jax. “I was stunned, liked to caught a heart attack, you know,” Stephens told the television news station on Monday about…
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President Obama’s Unclassified Emails Targeted by Russian Hackers
Russian hackers reportedly snooped through some of President Barack Obama’s emails in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system last year, according to the New York Times. In a break that was “far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged,” the Times says, hackers accessed email archives of people inside the…