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Fla. Man Convicted in Racially Motivated Murder Gets a New Trial
Jacob Dougan was convicted for the 1974 racially motivated murder of Stephen Orlando, 18, in Jacksonville, Fla., over four decades ago and is now going to receive a new trial, CBS News reports. Police said that Dougan was one of many who were part of a group called the Black Liberation Army. Apparently, group members…
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NYC Woman Whose Child Died in Fire While Left Home Alone Will Not Face Jail Time
Leila Aquino, 21, faces three years’ probation after pleading guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Kalenah Muldrow, in February, CBS News reports. Aquino was out working as a stripper when her apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., caught fire. When she returned home, firefighters had already…
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Autopsy Findings of Fatally Beaten NYC 6-Year-Old Released
Autopsy results for Zymere Perkins, 6, who died after being physically abused, have been released, the New York Post reports. On Sept. 26, Zymere was beaten with a broomstick in his Harlem apartment. Apparently he was beaten for defecating in a bucket. “The cause of death is fatal child-abuse syndrome,” said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for…
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Mom Slams School After Daughter Is Reportedly Sexually Assaulted Twice in Same Week
A 29-year-old woman says she is infuriated with education officials for failing to protect her daughter from being sexually assaulted at her Brooklyn, N.Y., middle school, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s disgusting for a parent to learn her daughter was almost raped inside a school building,” she said. The attacks reportedly occurred at…
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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NYC Man Shoots BB Rifle From Roof of Building, Hitting 10-Year-Old in Classroom
Anfernee Olivo, 19, shot a BB rifle from the rooftop of his Bronx, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon, striking a 10-year-old girl who was sitting in her classroom at the school next door, the New York Daily News reports. Lia Urena, 10, was hit in the forearm while sitting in her classroom on the fifth floor of…
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Report: Man Grabs and Chokes 4-Month-Old Baby at Wal-Mart
An incident at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart is under investigation after a woman reported that a strange man walked up to her in the checkout lane and began choking her 4-month-old baby, KTLA reports. A shopper who saw the Wednesday attack tackled the man and held him until police arrived, according to the report. “While I…
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Letter From Calif. Shooting Victim Sent to Family More Than a Decade Later
Aaron Vickers was 19 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in South Stockton, Calif., in 2002. In 2000 he had written a letter for a school assignment addressed to his future self, and his parents recently received that letter, according to the New York Daily News. Daryl Hutchins, Vickers’ former teacher at Plaza…
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Report: To Avoid Scutiny, Chicago Police Officer Didn’t Shoot Suspect for Beating Her
Parta Huff, 28, was arrested for attacking a female police officer while allegedly high on PCP. Chicago police say that she should have shot the man, but she chose not to because she feared that the shooting would be controversial, CBS News reports. Apparently the incident started when a police officer and her partner witnessed a car crash…
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Kerry Washington Welcomes Son Caleb Into the World
He’s here! According to E! News, Kerry Washington and her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, welcomed a brand-new baby boy into the world, and his name is Caleb Kelechi. We’ve watched over the past few months how beautiful Washington looked during her pregnancy, as she did with her first child. In May an insider told E! News, “Everyone…
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