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Family Moves Brain-Dead Teen From Hospital
On an empty street and under the cover of night, an ambulance appeared at a secured gate at Children’s Hospital Oakland and then quietly pulled away. Inside on a gurney lay Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead nearly a month ago. Her family had been fighting for this day as they clashed with officials…
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Interracial Couple Upset Over ‘Jungle Fever’ Note Left by Valet
An interracial couple in Columbus, Ga., went out for a nice dinner, but once they picked their car up from the valet, they saw a derogatory note attached to their ticket, CBS Atlanta News reports. The couple had dined at Spondivits restaurant, and “the experience besides the valet was wonderful,” Samuel Aarons told the news…
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Wal-Mart Manager Jumps Into Thieves’ Truck to Stop Beer Bandits
A man and a woman walked into a Florida Wal-Mart, loaded up a shopping cart with cases of beer and walked out without paying for them. A manager spotted the couple in the parking lot putting the beer into the bed of a pickup truck, so he walked over and confronted them, WRDQ/WFTV Eyewitness News…
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Mom Shot Picking Up 11-Month-Old From Babysitter
A young mother was gunned down and killed while picking up her son from a babysitter’s house around 6:30 p.m. in Lauderhill, Fla., on Monday, NBC Miami reports. Nicole Grier, 19, was strapping the child into her car when gunmen riding in a sedan with tinted windows pulled up and opened fire. The babysitter, Camille…
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50 Cent Loses Bid to Have Sex-Tape Case Thrown Out
A judge has refused to toss the lawsuit brought against rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson by a Florida woman over a sex video that was posted online. In the video, 50 Cent has been edited into the footage as the narrator, “Pimpin Curly,” 50 Cent’s Jheri-curl-wig-wearing alter ego, the New York Post reports. Judge Paul…
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Juanita Moore, Star of Imitation of Life, Dies
Juanita Moore, the pioneering African-American actress who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Imitation of Life, died at the age of 99, the Associated Press reports. According to her grandson, actor Kirk Kelleykahn, Moore collapsed in her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Kelleykahn told the AP that his grandmother was 99,…
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4-Year-Old Left in Car for 8 Hours While Mother Gambles
A Baltimore woman spent the first moments of 2014 in jail after she left her 4-year-old daughter unattended in a car for hours while she gambled inside a casino, New York’s Daily News reports. Alicia Denice Brown, 24, was arrested on New Year’s Eve at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, Md., after a routine patrol…
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Wife Shot by Husband in Freak Gun Accident
Police in Detroit are still investigating a bizarre shooting that took place earlier this week in the home of UAW Vice President General Holiefield, which left his wife in serious condition after a gun he was cleaning went off and shot her in the stomach, CBS Detroit reports. Holiefield’s wife, 50-year-old photographer Monica Morgan, is in…
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Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, Champion of Rights for Poor Women of Color, Dies
Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, a champion for both the civil rights movement and women’s rights, has died of cancer in Sarasota, Fla. where he lived in retirement, the Boston Globe reports. Dr. Edelin became a nationwide figure after he was convicted of manslaughter in Boston in 1975 after he performed an abortion. He would later…
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Bill de Blasio Sworn in as New York Mayor, Bible Goes Missing
Surrounded by his family and former President Bill Clinton, Bill de Blasio was formally sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City, making him the first Democrat in two decades to hold the position of governing the nation’s largest city, the New York Post reports. De Blasio, a former City Council member, assumed…
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