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Rudeness will not be tolerated in Kyesha Smith Wood’s Alabama household, even if it occurs in a public space like a movie theater—and even it happens when Wood, a mother of three, is not there. When Wood caught wind of how her daughter and stepdaughter were acting the plum fool at a local movie theater…

When Hannah Tate, 18, sent celebrity hairstylist Tokyo Stylez a message on Instagram asking him to make her a wig for her prom, she had no idea that Stylez would be at her doorstep Saturday, the day of her prom, with a full glam team in tow, ready to treat Tate, a cancer survivor, to…

Floridian Anton Kraft, 52, is one of the strongest men in the world. He is 4 feet 4 inches tall and can lift four times his body weight, having bench-pressed over 500 pounds. China Bell, 43, is 6 feet 3 inches tall and a transgender woman. Together, the two are a couple, and have been…

A 35-year-old New York City mother walked into a bathroom inside a midtown-Manhattan burger spot and smothered her 20-month-old son and then refused to let restaurant workers attempt to revive the boy, according to police and witnesses who spoke to the New York Daily News. According to the newspaper, Latisha Fisher used her hand to…

Administrators at Connecticut College thought it best to cancel classes Monday to allow students to deal with a string of racially offensive incidents that have occurred on campus in recent weeks, Raw Story reports. First, campus authorities found the words “no n—gers” on a bathroom wall this past weekend. The college’s dean of students immediately…

Classrooms are filling up again in Sierra Leone now that the Ebola crisis is under control, but the outbreak didn’t only claim the lives of some students; it also created an environment that led to a spike in pregnancies, RFI reports. That, too, is affecting attendance, since pregnant girls are not allowed to come to…

A video showing a 25-year-old California woman passed out in her stopped car on a busy interstate has gone viral. According to UPI, “Paul Anderegg spotted the car stopped in the middle of Interstate 805 northbound in San Diego early Friday, and he pulled over to the side of the road.” Anderegg tried to wake…

Ketrell Ferguson is homeless in Washington, D.C., and was looking for a place to sleep last week around 3:30 a.m. when he stumbled on what he thought was a robbery. Ferguson armed himself with half a brick and a stick, according to NBC News 4, and got close enough to the incident to realize that…

Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who administered a fatal choke hold to Eric Garner last summer, is being sued for a different incident involving a man named Leonardo Aguirre, the New York Daily News reports.  In his suit, Aguire claims that Pantaleo caused a car accident last June in Staten Island that…

It all started as an innocuous grab for some delicious-looking brownies that a Michigan dad saw laid out in his home Wednesday morning. He popped some into his mouth but soon started to suffer from hallucinations, the New York Daily News reports. The father, according to the Detroit Free Press, called 911, explaining that he had…