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CHICAGO (AP) — When a 14-year-old Chicago girl was arrested on charges that she shot and killed another 14-year-old Chicago girl, much of the attention centered on how the shooting stemmed from an argument over a boy that was playing out on Facebook. But to hear police, prosecutors and the victim’s friends tell it, the […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, police said. A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman after he […]
President Barack Obama is standing firm on his decision bring home POW Bowe Berghdal. He emphatically said he will make “no apologies” for trading five Taliban militants for the captured Army Sergeant. The exchange over the weekend for Bergdahl – who was held captive for five years – has been roundly criticized on Capital Hill […]
A brawl broke out at a kindergarten graduation ceremony in Cincinnati Monday morning that ended up with the Springfield Township school being locked down. The brawl…
When Louisiana hair stylist Crystal Collins realized that the mama of the little girl whose hair she just spent hours braiding wasn’t intending to pay her for her services, she undid her work and cut the braids out of the little girls’ hair…Then posted the pictures on social media. “One thing I don’t play about […]
Antonio Harris and Marrio Mangrum, two employees at the Atkinson Cotton Warehouse in Memphis, Tenn., have filed a complaint against their employers after racist threats were…
Remember those cute dancing hamsters in the Kia car commercials? The dancer that played one of the furry animals was arrested on suspicion of fraud. CBSLA reports: Leroy Barnes, 27, lied and told doctors he was unemployed so they’d sign off on his collecting state disability insurance benefits, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
The family of an 11 year old Houston girl is anxious to bring their loved one home. KHOU reports: Kayla Miles went missing on Monday morning. Police asked for the public’s help in finding her on Wednesday. The girl’s mother says her intuition tells her that her daughter is being held against her will. She […]
DENVER (AP) — A couple described by one of their relatives as “young, stupid and selfish” have been accused of killing the man’s grandparents so he could get his inheritance: an inexpensive house and $20,000, according to court records. Police say Brendan Lee Johnson, 19, and his girlfriend, Cassandra Ann Rieb, 18, sneaked into his […]
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say they used a GPS device hidden inside a Teddy bear to track down the toy and apprehend a suspect in the theft. Athens-Clarke County police say Mid-Atlantic Clothing Recycling had recently been experiencing thefts of clothing from its collection bin at Georgia Square Mall. The Athens Banner-Herald […]
An extremely angry white woman named Janelle Ambrosia when a man, presumably black, had the nerve to start his car in the parking lot. The May 30th confrontation happened in a Cheektowaga, N.Y., parking lot. The woman allegedly got pissed when the man started the car and scared her two kids. This set her off […]
McDonald’s might finally have figured out that paying its low-wage workers more would actually be a good thing for McDonald’s. McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson recently suggested his company would support a bill, proposed by President Barack Obama, raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25. Such a wage hike likely wouldn’t satisfy […]
