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HOUSTON (AP) — A school district spokesman says a high school student who shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car after being taking into custody at his Houston-area campus had told a friend he might hurt himself. Police say they’re investigating how the gun the student shot himself with wasn’t found […]
DETROIT (AP) — A businessman portrayed himself Wednesday as a personal purveyor of luxury for then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, providing free round-trip flights on private planes, a $6,000 watch during a New York shopping spree and courtside basketball tickets to the NBA Finals — all to keep favor with the leader of the troubled city. […]
See “Protestors Rally for Trayvon Martin” photo gallery below. Oh, a bloody-nosed George Zimmerman! The poor baby! Is that the reaction Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s lawyer, hoped we’d have when the color photo of his client with a bloody nose was released? Sorry, O’Mara, but my reaction was: “Oh, a bloody-nosed George Zimmerman! What a PAB […]
See “Protestors Rally for Trayvon Martin” photo gallery below. Oh, a bloody-nosed George Zimmerman! The poor baby! Is that the reaction Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s lawyer, hoped we’d have when the color photo of his client with a bloody nose was released? Sorry, O’Mara, but my reaction was: “Oh, a bloody-nosed George Zimmerman! What a PAB […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities are describing the fatal shooting of a Georgia woman after her vehicle bumped into a man’s motorized wheelchair at a gas station as a random encounter. Macon police said 65-year-old Linda Hunnicutt died after she was shot once in the chest Tuesday by the motorized wheelchair’s operator, 73-year-old Frank Louis Reeves. […]
Kansas City police have released the 911 tapes from the morning that police say Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins and then fled to the front door of the Chiefs’ practice facility where he turned the gun on himself. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Cassie,” Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, wailed. “The baby is […]
A Wisconsin judge ordered a 44-year-old father of nine (Yes, NINE) children to stop procreating and begin paying child support, The Smoking Gun reports. RELATED:…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Prison officials in North Carolina are calling for a criminal investigation after inmates alleged correctional officers forced them to rub habanero hot sauce on their genitals, resulting in painful blisters. N.C. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Pamela Walker said Monday that officials had asked the State Bureau of Investigation to review […]
It was a lethal mix of too much, too fast. Jovan Belcher was 25 and a promising linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs. His girlfriend, Kassandra “Kasi,” Perkins was 22, pretty and the mother of his three-month-old daughter, Zoe. But last weekend, what should have ultimately been the couple’s wedding announcement became their obituary. Belcher […]
To prove the apartment complex he’s long resided in has truly gone to the dogs, Ramon Severino offered up a bag full of rats. Embroiled in an ongoing tenant dispute with his Riverside Community Management team of landlords over what he insists is an excessive and never-ending rodent problem, Severino was hauled into New York […]
DETROIT (AP) — A businessman who claims he was extorted by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to protect his contracts at a Detroit convention center testified Tuesday that he told FBI agents just days before trial that he may have dementia. The disclosure by Karl Kado, 72, occurred near the end of four hours of vigorous cross-examination […]
HOLMDEL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Officials have removed a relaxation drink named after reggae icon Bob Marley after several students at a New Jersey school were sickened. Marley’s Mellow Mood is promoted to reduce stress. The drink’s nutrition facts say it may cause drowsiness and is not intended for children. However, students at Satz Middle […]
