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Calif. Parents Furious With High School Teacher Who They Say Asked Students to Take Selfies With Parents’ Sex Toys
A California teacher reportedly sent his high school students home with a bizarre request for extra credit. “It was to go into your parents’ private drawers or whatever to seek out sexual toys or condoms, or anything of that nature, and to take a selfie with it,” one student’s mother, Kimberly Cobene, told KPIX. Cobene,…
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Cleveland Cop Michael Brelo Arrested 4 Days After Being Acquitted in 2012 Shooting of Unarmed Couple
Just four days after he was acquitted in the 2012 shooting of an unarmed black couple, Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo has been arrested and is facing assault charges after an altercation with his twin brother. According to CNN, Brelo, 31, and his brother Mark both surrendered to police on Wednesday after a drunken fight…
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A Calif. Teen With Special Needs Gunned Down for Wearing Red Shoes in Wrong Neighborhood
Nineteen-year-old Tavin Price and his mother, Jennifer Rivers, stopped at a South Los Angeles car wash Friday on their way to the beach. Rivers began vacuuming out the car. Price, who had special needs, went inside to buy some cigarettes. A man told Price to take off his red shoes because the color is associated…
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Warrants Issued for 4 People Who Cheered During Miss. Graduation
June is graduation month, so when the person at the lectern says save your applause until all the graduates’ names have been called, it is probably best to heed that warning, especially if you live in Mississippi. Police have issued warrants (that’s right, warrants) for four people who shouted or cheered during Senatobia High School’s graduation…
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4-Year-Old Boy Hit by Car Miraculously Escapes Serious Injury
An out-of-control car was caught on surveillance camera as it hopped a curb, hit a tree and ran over a 4-year-old boy who was walking on the sidewalk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. According to WABC, the child survived the Monday-afternoon crash with only a few bruises and escaped more serious injury. Neighbors who saw…
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Minn. School Puts 6-Year-Old on Wrong School Bus Home … Twice!
Ciare Mckenzie took her 6-year-old child to Bancroft Elementary in Minneapolis, and twice, the school placed her daughter on the wrong bus home. According to Fox 9, on Wednesday Jomyra Mckenzie was placed on a bus that dropped her at the corner of 37th and Snelling when she was supposed to have been dropped off at…
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Did Fla. Police Lie About Jermaine McBean Not Wearing Earbuds During Fatal Shooting?
On July 13, 2013, 33-year-old Jermaine McBean had just purchased a BB gun from a Florida store and was headed home when police spotted him. Police say McBean ignored their orders to drop the weapon, so they fired shots, killing the information-technology specialist. A nurse on the scene that day says that police stopped her…
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Tracy Morgan Speaks for the 1st Time Since His Accident
An emotional Tracy Morgan spoke with Today’s Matt Lauer for the first time since a 2014 accident in which, police say, the driver of a Wal-Mart delivery truck didn’t see slow-moving traffic and crashed into the back of Morgan’s limousine. The accident, which happened on the New Jersey Turnpike as Morgan and friends were returning…
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Colo. Teen Who Grew Up in Foster Care Is Looking to ‘Rent’ Family for Birthday
Natalie Carson doesn’t want to spend another birthday alone. So the Westminster, Colo., 19-year-old posted an ad on Craigslist saying that she was willing to rent a family so that maybe this birthday would be more memorable. “I am not a weirdo or anything I was just inspired by another girl that rented a family…
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DC Reporter Fatally Shot While Waiting for Bus
Charnice Milton, 27, was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., an area plagued by crime and poverty. She would go on to graduate from Ball State University and earn a master’s degree from Syracuse. She wanted to make a difference in her community, so she returned home to take a job with a local newspaper. “She…
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