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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman last week had “a fixation” on the former neighborhood watch leader and had recently been admitted to a mental institution, according to a police report made public Tuesday. The Lake Mary Police Department report said that 36-year-old Matthew Apperson had shown signs […]
Jacque Reid talks to Derrica and Natalie Wilson of Black and Missing Foundation about the disproportionate amount of women and children that go missing. “Our number of our children are going missing because of sex trafficking. Atlanta ranks number one in sex trafficking. Domestic violence also plays a role.” Click the link above to […]
A Duke University professor has some ideas about why Baltimore exploded a few weeks back. He says basically – this is my assessment- that blacks aren’t assimilating properly or fast enough and are being blindly lead by liberal policies that make whites rich and blacks poor. Professor Jerry Hough was responding to a May […]
Duke University Professor Jerry Hough is on leave after his racially-charged comments on a news website comment section went viral. My Fox 8 reports: In the recent post, he made references to “the blacks” and “the Asians” in response to an editorial about racism and the Baltimore riots. Hough is listed as a political science professor on […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal authorities said they are uncertain if anything struck the windshield of an Amtrak train before it derailed in Philadelphia last week, but they have not ruled out the possibility. Investigators, however, said they are certain a gunshot did not strike the train before the May 12 derailment, which killed eight people […]
WACO, Texas (AP) — About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs were charged with engaging in organized crime Monday, a day after a shootout at a Texas restaurant that killed nine people and wounded 18. The crowd of suspects was so large that authorities opened a convention center to hold them all before they were […]
A rash of gun violence exploded in Chicago over the weekend, leaving one person dead and 40 others injured. In this recent spate of shootings…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A few miles off in any direction, and the debate about the knife involved in Freddie Gray‘s arrest by Baltimore police may have been completely different. The state of Maryland has one set of laws governing knives. The city of Baltimore has its own rules. Caught in the middle are people like […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The case of a Florida woman who fled to avoid her son’s circumcision is entering a federal courtroom for the first time. Thirty-one-year-old Heather Hironimus was arrested Thursday in the long-running dispute over the removal of her 4-year-old child’s foreskin. She went missing with the boy nearly three months […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says 200 human smugglers have been detained as part of the government’s efforts to stem the number of citizens illegally trying to migrate to Europe. Ethiopian Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam told the Ethiopian News Agency late Sunday that the government is looking for 80 other human […]
Do you remember Shanesha Taylor? The mom whose teary-eyed mug shot went viral last summer after it became national news that she left two of…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor trains will resume service Monday in “complete compliance” with federal safety orders following last week’s deadly derailment, officials announced Sunday. Company president Joseph Boardman said Amtrak staff and crew have been working “around the clock” to restore service along the route between Washington and Boston following Tuesday night’s crash […]
