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D.L. Hughley recognizes sisters Bettye and Beth Windom as this week’s Human Beings of the Week for selflessly saving dozens of lives…and using their brand new car to…
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A grandmother arrived at a dilapidated home on a busy Southern California street to visit her daughter and three grandchildren, only to find the girls’ small, blood-covered bodies neatly arranged on a bed. Neighbors and authorities say the woman frantically ran outside, throwing a bloody knife to the ground and told […]
A Columbia University student received an amazing gift at her graduation Monday: her father’s return from active duty in Afghanistan, the New York Daily News…
Should bullying be a criminal offense? Lawmakers in a California city decided it isn’t, defeating a proposed anti-bullying law on Tuesday, KTLA 5 reports. The…
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a man stole a New York City bakery truck and began delivering loaves of bread to random businesses. Police say David Bastar hopped into Grimaldi’s Home of Bread truck on Manhattan’s Upper East Side early Monday while the real driver was making a delivery at a pizzeria. Wearing only […]
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombing suspects used “relatively sophisticated” bombs with fuses made from Christmas lights and remote-control detonators made from model car parts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in a court filing arguing statements one of them made to FBI agents after being captured shouldn’t be thrown out. The filing argued against a […]
How does a 19 year old with a clean rap sheet get sentenced to 99 years in prison? Make a batch of pot brownies and you could be in the same boat. What is usually considered a misdemeanor in Texas, it was the amount of has oil used in the baked goods that warrants a […]
According to a new study, African-Americans face a particularly difficult situation when it comes to finding a job after school. The 2013 unemployment rate for recent college grads who are black was almost twice that of recent college grads overall, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a […]
It’s the end of the school year so cue the pranks! Two Brooklyn fourth graders were arrested for allegedly slipping rat poison in their teacher’s water. Police are reporting that she noticed a bout of nausea after she drank the water. CBS New York reports: The teacher went to police after two other students told […]
The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that a 22 year old Morehouse University student has been missing since Friday. Ben Jones hasn’t been seen since he told his family he was going to pick up graduation tickets, according to Channel 2 Action News. Since his disappearance, his parents have learned Jones was not scheduled to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. Obama, in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and the Senate, notified lawmakers about the latest steps underway to assist in the return of […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago was reunited with her family after she went to police and told them her mother’s ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to marry him and fathered her child. Isidro Garcia, 41, of Bell Gardens, was arrested on […]
