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WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) — A nurse administering flu shots to dozens of employees of a pharmaceutical company reused syringes, the state Department of Health said Wednesday. There is a low risk of infection and syringes that hold the vaccine, not needles, were reused, they said. But state and local health officials, as well as […]
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An Alabama reporter was struck in the face after asking a Dothan City Commissioner about voter-fraud allegations relating to his 2013 election. The Dothan Eagle reports: Amos Newsome, 82, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon at a residence on East Burdeshaw Street and transported to the Dothan City Jail for booking. He was released from jail Tuesday […]
The bizarre murder of a transgender woman in Philadelphia has sparked a police investigation. NBC 10 reports: Police say 22-year-old Kiesha Jenkins, of North Philadelphia, was dropped off on the 1300 block of Wingohocking Street around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. As she got out of the vehicle she was approached by at least five men who […]
Roland Martin talks to Candice Tolbert, the mother of a 12-year-old black boy who was suspended for allegedly “intimidating” a young white girl after playing the staring game. “You have two children interacting. She was giggling, he was staring. When she said stop, he stopped. The school basically convinced him that he did something wrong. […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of Miss South Carolina 1954 found her flood-soaked pageant scrapbook on a dining room floor littered with dead fish on Tuesday, as the first sunny day in nearly two weeks provided a chance to clean up from historic floods. “I would hate for her to see it like this. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Friends and family of Julian Bond remembered the deceased civil rights leader as a man who left a lasting “invaluable imprint” on not only the civil rights movement but on people around the United States and the globe. Bond’s admirers gathered at the Lincoln Theater in Washington on Tuesday to remember Bond, […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn’t seem to know he was potentially violent. The online writings by Laurel Harper, who is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under a cost-cutting measure intended to reduce the nation’s prison population. The more than 5,500 inmates set to go free in November are among the first of what could eventually be tens of thousands eligible for […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A handcuffed man seeking to avoid arrest died after crashing head-first through the third-floor window glass of a downtown Atlanta office building and falling 40 feet to the ground, authorities said Tuesday. The man reported Tuesday to a pretrial services program of Atlanta’s Fulton County Superior Court when authorities determined he had […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A supervisor at a Michigan fiberglass factory who won a $310.5 million Powerball jackpot said Tuesday that she immediately quit her one-time “nasty, dirty” job and will buy land to build houses for her family. Julie Leach of Three Rivers said she was having a “really bad night” working the third […]
They made a lot of news recently when they were unceremoniously kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing and having a good time. In their first televised interview since the incident on August 22, members of the book club “Sistahs on the Reading Edge” sit down with “The Real” hosts to discuss what […]
