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A social media dispute devolved into a hot mess when three women ended up splashing several victims with hot grease for comments they allegedly made against them on Instagram, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Ashley Hardy, Jasmine Ragland, Shatericka Barrino and Stori Brown went to an apartment complex in Smyrna, Ga., to settle a dispute with three […]
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Online jail records show four University of Alabama football players have been arrested on charges including credit card fraud and robbery. Records posted on the Tuscaloosa Sheriff’s Department website show running back Brent Calloway was arrested Monday on a charge of fraudulent use of a credit card. Linebackers D.J. Pettway and […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting at a crash scene of a suspected drunken driver who authorities say plowed into his sons as they helped push their family’s broken-down pickup truck along a dark, narrow, rural road. David Barajas, 31, and his sons, 12-year-old David Jr. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation’s middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit “even worse” than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first […]
CHICAGO (AP) — After months of drama surrounding Jesse Jackson Jr.’s seat in Congress, the race to replace the congressman with the prominent name has pivoted to a different high-profile topic: guns. Only a short time ago, most of the attention in Illinois’ 2nd District was fixed on Jackson himself, specifically his mysterious leave of absence […]
Joe Walsh must be buckling under the weight of all that Tea Party sanctimony he had a hand in heaping on everyone else. The former Illinois GOP congressman, who lost his seat last fall to Democrat and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, has apparently fallen on hard times. Since he lost his election – and […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered two gang members held without bail in the death of a 15-year-old Chicago honor student. Cook County Judge Israel Desierto on Tuesday ordered 18-year-old Michael Ward and 20-year-old Kenneth Williams held. The two men are charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 29 death of Hadiya Pendleton. The […]
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has died after years of fighting for her husband’s release from a Georgia prison because of the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law. Tracy Dew said Sunday her sister Anita McNeil of Wilson died Saturday after breast cancer spread to her bones. Anita McNeil had spent weeks […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Three people were killed in a shooting at a Delaware courthouse that authorities say stemmed from a years-long custody dispute. The New Castle County Courthouse remained closed Tuesday as workers repaired shattered glass and investigators continued to probe Monday’s shooting, which happened just as the courthouse opened for the day. Authorities […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say two gang members charged in the death of a 15-year-old honor student mistook her and her friends for members of a rival gang and attacked the group in retaliation for a shooting that injured one of the men over the summer. Hadiya Pendleton died after being shot in a […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer was charged Monday with murdering a Riverside officer in a potential death penalty case. A $1 million reward failed to trigger tips to end the manhunt. Christopher Dorner was also charged with the attempted murder of another Riverside officer and two Los Angeles Police Department officers, […]
DETROIT (AP) — Kwame Kilpatrick turned Detroit’s City Hall into a “private profit machine” by rigging contracts, demanding bribes and even stealing money meant for the needy, a prosecutor said during closing arguments Monday in the former mayor’s corruption trial. Kilpatrick spent $840,000 more than he earned as Detroit’s mayor from 2002 until 2008, Assistant […]
