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  • EgyptAir Flight Carrying 66 Vanishes; ‘More Likely’ Terrorism Than Tech Failure: Report

    An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo suddenly swerved and plunged off radar while over the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning, and Egyptian officials are speculating that the plane’s disappearance is more likely a result of terrorism than technical error, CNN reports. EgyptAir flight MS804 made abrupt turns that generally…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 19, 2016
  • George Zimmerman Thanks ‘God’ After Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin Is Reported Sold for More Than $120,000

    The gun George Zimmerman used to fatally shoot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin may have been sold for over $120,000, TMZ reports. The gossip site notes that some seven verified users were engaged in a bidding war for the pistol. A representative for United Gun Group, which hosted the auction, told the Orlando Sentinel that the group…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 19, 2016
  • Pregnant Mother and Son, 3, Shot in the Face; Boyfriend Arrested 

    On May 12, a 23-year-old pregnant woman and her 3-year-old son were found, both with gunshot wounds to the face, after a runner saw them in an Asheville, N.C., park. The woman, Candice Pickens, was pronounced dead at the scene, while her son, Zachaeus Waters, was rushed to a local hospital, where he underwent emergency…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 19, 2016
  • Symone Marshall Moved to Texas Looking for a Fresh Start. So How Did She End Up Dead in a Texas Jail?

    Stop reading if any of this sounds familiar: A young woman moves to Texas seeking a fresh start, ends up in jail, and because she’s unable to post bail, stays in police custody for weeks until one day she’s found unresponsive in her cell. She’s rushed to a local hospital, where she is pronounced dead.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 18, 2016
  • George Zimmerman on Trayvon Martin’s Parents: ‘They Didn’t Raise Their Son Right’

    Because George Zimmerman won’t just go away, he’s now criticizing Trayvon Martin’s parents, the Black Lives Matter movement and Hillary Clinton. In a recent interview with the Daily Beast, Zimmerman claims that he, not Trayvon, is the real victim and questioned Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s parenting skills. “They didn’t raise their son right. He…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 18, 2016
  • Former Marine Attacked and Taunted With Racial Remarks in Wyo.

    A former Marine from Montana suffered a concussion and a broken facial bone and had his eye swollen shut after, he says, two men made racial remarks and attacked him outside a bar in northern Wyoming May 7. Twenty-five-year-old Clayton Denny, who is half African American and half Chippewa Cree, said that he had just…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 17, 2016
  • Watch: Houston Police Looking for Drivers in Road Rage Brawl

    A driving incident in Houston quickly turned into road rage as a woman confronted two men in a car and then things got physical. Police investigators told KHOU that the incident began after one vehicle cut off another. When the vehicles were stopped at a light, a passenger inside a black truck got out and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 17, 2016
  • Missing Ivy League Student Found Safe; Rented Apartment in Brooklyn, NY: Report

    Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who’d been missing since May 5, was found Monday after she reactivated her bank card with her new address. According to the New York Daily News, Kidd had changed her cellphone and bank account numbers and pulled down her Facebook page before disappearing earlier this month. Kidd, a…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 17, 2016
  • Calif. 2-Year-Old to Be Given 1 More Week on Life Support, Judge Rules

    A California family has been given a one-week extension by a judge to keep their son, 2-year-old Israel Stinson, on life support. Israel was declared brain-dead after an asthma attack left him without oxygen for 40 minutes April 1, CBS News reports. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller in Sacramento, Calif., ruled that the family could…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 16, 2016
  • NJ Girl, 3, Mauled by Pit Bulls

    The two pit bull mixes were supposed to be in the basement, but somehow they escaped and began attacking 3-year-old Janaya Everett. “The baby was laying on the floor bloody with her scalp all messed up, and just a mess … horrible, horrible thing,” Dwyane Harper told ABC 7. Harper said that he was outside…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 16, 2016
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