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Fantasia Hospitalized After Burn Incident
Fantasia was hospitalized Sunday evening after suffering second-degree burns. Fantasia’s husband, Kendall Taylor, posted the news to the singer’s Instagram account and showed her in a hospital bed with a bandage covering her arm. “My wife experienced an accident today causing 2nd degree burns on her arm,” Taylor wrote on Instagram. “She’s steady asking the…
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Tracing Your Roots: Untangling the Origins of My Dad’s Blended Family
A reader seeks details on grandparents who left behind a family tree with many branches. Dear Professor Gates: Can you please help me get some clear history on my grandfather and grandmother? My father, George W. Murphy, was born March 25, 1919, in Little Rock, Ark., one of many siblings. My grandmother Ada Wiley Murphy…
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Tenn. Officer Calls Colleague the N-Word Twice, Gets Suspended for 3 Days
Is a three-day unpaid suspension appropriate discipline for calling a co-worker a racial slur? A white sergeant with the Hamilton County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Office used a racial slur twice while talking to a black deputy back in November, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Sgt. George Jackson was suspended for three days without pay for…
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Wrongfully Convicted Tenn. Man Fights for Compensation After More Than 3 Decades in Prison
A Tennessee man is fighting to receive rightful compensation after wrongfully spending more than 30 years in prison, CBS News reports. In 1978, Lawrence McKinney was convicted by a Memphis, Tenn., jury of rape and burglary. The victim identified McKinney as one of two men who attacked her in her bedroom, and he was sentenced…
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Tenn. School Bus Driver Charged in Horrific Crash That Killed at Least 5 Children
The Chattanooga, Tenn., school bus driver involved in a fatal crash that killed at least five children has been arrested and is currently facing multiple charges in the incident, the Times Free Press reports. Johnthony Walker, 24, was charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher…
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Tenn. Man Wrongly Imprisoned Says Money Awarded to Him Isn’t Enough
Clark McMillan, 59, of Memphis, Tenn., was wrongly convicted for the robbery and rape of a 16-year-old girl back in 1980. In 2002, DNA evidence cleared him and he was released from prison. And while he was awarded over $800,000, he says that it hasn’t been enough, USA Today reports. Because of his imprisonment, McMillan has…
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University of Tenn. Law Professor Urged Drivers to Hit Charlotte, NC, Protesters
Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, urged motorists to run over demonstrators blocking traffic in Charlotte, N.C., as they protested the death of Keith Lamont Scott, who was fatally shot by police, The Tennessean reports. Reynolds tweeted, “Run them down” in response to a tweet from a news station in Charlotte…
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Tenn. Woman Accused of Trying to Remove Body From Funeral
Cynthia Ann Frierson, 36, is being accused of trying to remove a body from a casket after walking into a funeral Monday in Columbia, Tenn., CBS News reports. Frierson is also being charged with public intoxication, unlawful drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked and suspended license. According to CBS, before arriving at the funeral, Frierson hit…