• Body Found in Lake May Be Missing Doctor Teleka Patrick

    A body discovered early Sunday morning by a man fishing in a lake in Indiana is believed to be that of missing Kalamazoo doctor Teleka Patrick, MLive.com reports. Police have yet to officially identify the body, but Jim Carlin, a private investigator hired by the family to aid in the search for missing doctor, believes…

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  • NBA Player Dante Cunningham Arrested for 2nd Time in 3 Days

    Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Dante Cunningham is again in trouble with the law. He was arrested Sunday on suspicion of making terroristic threats, his second arrest in less than a week. Cunningham, 26, was charged Thursday with felony domestic assault in an incident involving his girlfriend. The woman told police that Cunningham attacked her during…

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  • Chiwetel Ejiofor—the Next Bond Villain?

    Chiwetel Ejiofor, still glowing from his best actor Oscar nomination for 12 Years a Slave, is rumored to be the front-runner to play the villain opposite Daniel Craig in the next James Bond movie, according to The Wrap. Sony and MGM, which are partnering on the next Bond film, and Ejiofor’s reps are being tightlipped…

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  • Black Boys Go Ivy League: Haters Emerge

    Last week it was reported that Avery Coffey, age 17, had received offers to five ivy League schools. And just this week, 17-year-old Kwasi Enin bested that effort by getting accepted at all eight of them. These were moments of celebration for two black teens who had worked tirelessly to achieve the elusive goal of Ivy acceptance, and the…

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  • Kent State Student Arrested in Shooting That Caused Campus Lockdown

    A 24-year-old Kent State University freshman remained in custody Thursday after shooting himself in the hand during a domestic dispute and prompting a campus lockdown, university police told the Associated Press. Quavaugntay Tyler fired only once Wednesday night during some sort of dispute with two female students, campus police Chief John Peach told AP. No…

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  • 11-Year-Old Forced to Clean School Toilets During Detention

    Henry Hawkins, a Maryland fifth-grader, was caught arguing with another student. He was ordered to stay for detention after school. The 11-year-old later asked his mother whether she liked to clean toilets, since that was what he was told to do for his punishment. “If you want to give them detention, that’s fine,” Neshanna Turner,…

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  • Mob Beats Detroit Driver Who Stopped to Check on Boy He Hit

    A suburban Detroit man whose pickup hit a 10-year-old boy who stepped into the street was in critical condition with head injuries in a hospital after a mob attacked him when he stopped his vehicle to check on the child. The 54-year-old man, whose name was not released, is being treated at a Detroit hospital.…

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  • Prison Ordered to Resume Transgender Inmate’s Hormone Treatments

    A federal judge has ruled that a transgender inmate can receive hormone treatments in prison after she argued that she suffered a medical setback when her treatments were stopped. According to the Associated Press, Antione Lee, who goes by the name Whitney Lee, had experienced facial hair growth and depression once the Department of Rehabilitation…

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  • Exchange Student Eats Pot Cookie, Jumps to His Death in Colorado

    A Wyoming college student on spring break in Denver ate a legally purchased marijuana cookie that a friend bought from a Colorado recreational pot shop and later jumped to his death, the Associated Press reports. Levy Thamba Pongi, 19, a native of the Republic of Congo, was a student at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo.…

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  • Fort Hood Shooting: Attacker Slays 3, Injures More Than a Dozen, Kills Self

    At least four people are reported dead after a shooting Wednesday at Fort Hood military installation in Texas, and more than a dozen were injured, according to authorities, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, the gunman, identified as Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, 33, is among the four, having taken his own life, officials…

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