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In Brooklyn, NY a pregnant 19-year-old woman was shot in the head outside of her home. On Sunday night, a gunman shot Tytianna Sparks at 12:40 pm and then took off running. Sparks was taken to Brookdale University Hospital in critical condition. 59-year-old Ruth Sparks, the victim’s mother was picking up gifts for her daughters […]
Tim Scott the lone African American Republican in the Senate — is scheduled to meet with President Trump Wednesday to discuss race and the white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Va., reports Greenville Online. Scott, who represents South Carolina, criticized the president’s weak response to events that resulted in the death of three […]
As people evacuate for Hurricane Irma, many Floridians have found themselves evacuating to the nearby state of Alabama. Of the people evacuating a great majority of them rely on food stamps to get by. But what do you do when you have food stamps for one state and not the other? The U.S. Department of […]
MIAMI (AP) — Aid rushed into hurricane-scarred Florida early Tuesday, residents began to dig out, and officials slowly pieced together the scope of Irma’s vicious path of destruction across the peninsula. Even as glimmers of hope emerged from parts of the state forecasters once worried would be razed by the storm, the fate of the […]
After Hurricane Irma passed through Florida, it’s been reported that 4 in 10 were out of fuel as of Monday according to USA Today. The shortage of gas can get even worse as Floridians rush back into the state to check on their homes and resume living their lives again. However, the transportation of gas […]
CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said. The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans commemorated 9/11 on Monday with tear-streaked tributes, a presidential warning to terrorists and appeals from victims’ relatives for unity and hope 16 years after the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Looking out at the solemn crowd at ground zero, Debra Epps said she views every day as time to […]
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to help with search-and-rescue operations in Florida on Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation. “I just hope everyone survived,” Gov. Rick Scott said. He said boats were cast ashore, water, sewers and […]
In Chicago, a 19-year-old woman was found dead inside of a freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Sunday morning. Keeneka Jenkins attended a party Friday night at the hotel and was last seen on Saturday morning. After 1:15 pm she was reported missing. According to the family, police told them that their daughter walked […]
Two children who were being evacuated from Hurricane Irma died in separate car crashes in Georgia. According to WSB-TV 3-month-old Riley Hunt of Florida was killed by an SUV driven by a 17-year-old on Saturday night. She was later pronounced dead. The Delkab County police report that an 11-year-old boy was killed in a car […]
According to police, eight people including the suspect were shot and killed at a home in Plano, TX Sunday night. Officers responded to the home after 8 pm when gunshots were heard according to Plano Police PIO David Tilley. CBS local news reports that an officer shot and killed the suspect. Officer Tilley explained, “He […]
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The 400-mile-wide (640-kilometer-wide) storm blew ashore in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then marched up its western coast, its punishing […]
