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Tiger Woods Drops Out of the Top 100 for the 1st Time in 18 Years
For 18 years the name Tiger Woods has been synonymous with golf’s elite. For 18 years the name Woods has been listed somewhere near the top of the 100 best golfers in the world. And now, for the first time in 18 years, Woods’ name won’t be there. According to Reuters, Woods in now ranked…
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NYC Cops Hand-Deliver Jaywalking Tickets to 2 Teens Hit by Car
The New York City teens thought the officers were there to check on their well-being, considering that they had both been hit by a car while trying to cross the street. But it turns out that while the teens were in the hospital being checked by doctors, the cops were there to give them jaywalking…
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Watch: Teen Couple Beaten by Skateboarders in Calif.
A teenage California couple was savagely attacked late last week by a group of skateboarders who had reportedly warned the teen girl not to come to the area of town after an alleged fight a month ago. According to KTLA, Brooklyn Smith, 16, and her boyfriend, Toyon Carlson, were walking near Venice Beach Skate Park Thursday…
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Woman Records Alleged Rape by Parole Officer so Cops Will Believe Her
A South Florida woman videotaped her parole officer sexually assaulting her so that she could prove to police that she was, in fact, raped and so that the officer couldn’t revoke her parole, a claim the victim says he made several times, according to WSVN. According to police who spoke with the news station, 50-year-old…
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Roger Moore Denies ‘Racist’ Comment About Idris Elba Playing James Bond
Former James Bond actor Roger Moore found himself backpedalling from comments in which he balked at the notion of Idris Elba portraying the superspy, according to the New York Daily News. The 87-year-old actor, who portrayed Bond in seven films, reportedly made the comments during a recent Paris Match interview, according to the news outlet.…
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Rapper Lil Durk’s Manager Slain in Chicago Hours After Attending Anti-Crime Event
The manager of popular Chicago rapper Lil Durk was shot and killed early Friday as he sat in a parked car on Chicago’s South Side, just hours after meeting with Chicago Bulls star Joakim Noah about the athlete’s anti-violence initiative, according to Homicide Watch Chicago. The incident occurred when Uchenna Agina—known as Chino Dolla and…
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7 Shot and Wounded at Florida Spring Break House Party
Seven people were shot and critically injured early Saturday after mayhem erupted at a spring-break house party in Panama City Beach, Fla., according to USA Today. The coastal community is known as “the Spring Break Capital of the World,” the report says. Bay County Sheriff’s deputies are still trying to determine what sparked the shooting,…
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Michelle Obama Proclaims ‘Black Girls Rock!’
At the annual Black Girls Rock ceremony Saturday in New Jersey, Michelle Obama celebrated “the beauty, power and tenacity of black women while spreading her own message of education,” the Associated Press reports. “No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful,” Obama told the crowd of mostly young black…
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Watch: A St. Louis Train Rider’s Refusal to Answer Ferguson Question Sparks Attack
St. Louis police are searching for an African-American man in his 20s who assaulted a white man Monday supposedly for declining to answer a question about Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot last August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., CNN reports. The attack occurred late Monday aboard a…
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Mourners Flock to Vigil for Detroit Siblings Entombed in Freezer
Detroit residents gathered Friday to bid farewell to two siblings whose bodies were found this week in a freezer—allegedly put there by their mother—and to call on the community to unite against child abuse, according to the Detroit News. Autopsies conducted Friday on Stoni Blair, 13, and her brother Stephen Berry, 9, determined that they…