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  • Longtime Atlanta News Anchor Amanda Davis Dies After Massive Stroke

    Atlanta has lost one of its most familiar faces. Amanda Davis, the morning news anchor for WGCL-TV, suffered a massive stroke at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Tuesday. She was traveling to San Antonio to attend the funeral of her stepfather, USA Today reports. Davis, 62, died Wednesday night surrounded by family, according to WGCL-TV.…

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  • Cops Suspended After Failing to Check Up on Pregnant NYC Mother Who Was Later Found Dead

    On Wednesday morning, two police officers were dispatched to a home in New York City’s Brooklyn borough to check on a pregnant 22-year-old mother who was scared of her husband. But the two officers never got out of their car, the New York Post reports. The woman, Tonie Wells, was found later that morning at…

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  • NYPD Veteran Caught Stealing From Banana Republic Quits: Report

    A 49-year-old New York City Police Department sergeant allegedly caught shoplifting from Banana Republic last week has quit the force. According to the New York Post, Police Sgt. Tamas Balatoni was accused of switching price tags at a Banana Republic in lower Manhattan on Dec. 21 when he was caught by a store employee, who…

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  • Ohio Woman Convicted of Murder Is Released on Christmas Morning After Serving 22 Years

    After 22 years in prison, an Ohio woman falsely accused of being an accomplice to murder at the age of 19 finally got to spend Christmas by her mother’s side. Tyra Patterson, a Dayton native, was sentenced to life in prison for robbing and murdering 15-year-old Michelle Lai in 1994. In Ohio, accomplices to murder…

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  • Woman Falsely Accused of Fraud After Buying Louis Vuitton at Saks Fifth Avenue

    A Michigan woman is alleging that Saks Fifth Avenue employees profiled her after she made some high-end purchases at their store last week. With only a few days left until Christmas, Dana Hale and her 24-year-old daughter, Paris, went to a Saks store store in Troy, Mich., on Dec. 21 to get some shopping done.…

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  • Can I Get a Window Seat? United Passenger Big Mad Over Losing 1st-Class Seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee became the subject of one United Airlines passenger’s ire after the customer alleged that the Texas Democrat had been assigned a first-class seat that was originally hers. Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher, according to the Houston Chronicle, said that she booked a first-class seat Dec. 3 for…

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  • Why 2017 Was the Year of Rose Armitage

    To be a person of color in America is to always be tangled between dueling worlds. What was different in 2017, more so than any other year in recent memory, was how those polarities were laid bare for everyone else to see. It was the year American streets were crowded with both pussy hats and…

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  • Restaurant Owner and Stunt Queen Brings the North Pole to North Philly in Epic Neighborhood Block Party

    How do you top hiring a live-ass camel for your son’s Dubai-themed prom? If you’re Saudia Shuler and the occasion is Christmas, the answer should be pretty obvious. Reindeer. Bring on the damn reindeer. Shuler was back at her extravagant best Wednesday night, throwing a massive block party and toy giveaway she called “North Pole…

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  • NYC Man Exonerated After Serving 30 Years for Rape He Didn’t Commit

    Thirty years ago, three men broke into a Brooklyn, N.Y., Burger King, robbing the store and gang-raping an 18-year-old worker who had been closing up the eatery. But the brutal attack—and the subsequent police investigation—landed four men behind bars. The fourth was a then-17-year-old named Mark Denny, whom the 18-year-old identified in a police lineup.…

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  • In the Dark of Night, 2 Confederate Statues in Memphis, Tenn., Come Down

    For 113 years, a bronze statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a man who rose above his station thanks to the slave trade, a Confederate general who orchestrated the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, and the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—loomed over downtown Memphis, Tenn. At 9:01 p.m. Wednesday, a time the New York…

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