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Co-Pilot’s Intention in Germanwings Crash Was to Destroy Plane: Report
After listening to the final horrifying minutes of Flight 9525 on Tuesday, heard on its black-box voice recorder, French investigators have concluded that the Germanwings jet co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit and intentionally crashed the plane “full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door,” the Associated Press…
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SAE Frat Member Apologizes for Singing Racist Song
Surrounded by black leaders and clergy at an Oklahoma City church on Wednesday, Levi Pettit, the 20-year-old former University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member, apologized for his part in a racist sing-along that went viral after it was caught on video. “There are no excuses for my behavior. I never thought of myself…
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Okla. Civil Rights Activist Nancy Randolph Davis Dead at 88
Civil rights pioneer Nancy Randolph Davis, the first African American to enroll in Oklahoma State University, has died at the age of 88, officials confirmed Wednesday, according to Raw Story. “She was a soldier and a pioneer for civil rights. She worked to make the world a better place for everyone,” Garland Pruitt, president of…
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Mich. Man Beaten and Tased During Traffic Stop Caught on Dash Cam
Something was off from the beginning of the traffic stop when two Inkster, Mich., police officers approached Floyd Dent’s car with guns already drawn. According to Dent, 57, when he was stopped on Jan. 28, officers dragged him out of his car, choked him, beat him, used a stun gun on him and planted drugs…
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NYC 8th-Grade Fight Club Assaults 1st-Grader
Latoya Gore, a New York City mother, has filed paperwork in court to get the city’s Department of Education to release video footage that shows a bunch of eighth-graders assaulting her 7-year-old daughter, the New York Daily News reports. Gore says that when her daughter, Taniya Jules, defied the girls’ orders by not joining a…
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Mich. Woman Shot Up McDonald’s Drive-Thru After Botched Bacon Order
A Michigan jury found Shaneka Torres guilty of shooting up a McDonald’s drive-thru window because employees at the fast-food chain twice forgot to add bacon to her cheeseburger order, the New York Daily News reports. Both encounters happened on the same day in February 2014, when Torres placed an order for a cheeseburger with bacon.…
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Young NC Transgender Activist Who Had Been Crowned Homecoming King Dies in Apparent Suicide
Transgender activist Blake Brockington died overnight in what appears to have been a suicide, police said, according to the Charlotte Observer. The North Carolina 18-year-old, who was an advocate for sexual-minority rights, transitioned during his sophomore year at East Mecklenburg High School, having previously been known as a girl. Last year he was crowned homecoming…
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Why Does This Texas Man Owe $21,000 in Child Support if the Child Isn’t His?
Willie Carson has been paying child support for 13 years—or, rather, because he has been behind in his child support payments, his wages have been garnished for 13 years. There are days when the Houston resident has been unable to eat and has had to go without electricity. And here is the kicker: The 13-year-old…
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Ben Carson: Obama Is a ‘Psychopath’
Ben Carson—neurosurgeon, Tea Party superstar and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate—is well-known for his controversial comments, whether he’s comparing the Affordable Care Act to slavery or claiming that prison makes people gay. According to GQ, on the night of Obama’s State of the Union address in January, Carson implied that the president was a psychopath…
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NY Cop Under Investigation for Captioning Photo of Topless African Women as ‘Michelle Obama’s Class Reunion’
An Irondequoit, N.Y., Police Department investigator is being investigated for a Facebook page that is being called “offensive and racially insensitive,” Raw Story reports. Officer Jim Frascati allegedly posted the insensitive messages, which included a photo that showed a group of topless tribal African women dancing, with the caption “Michelle Obama’s class reunion.” In another…