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Man Who Killed Wife's Would-Be Rapist Cleared of All Charges
On Wednesday, Mamadou Diallo, a Bronx, N.Y., man who killed his wife’s would-be rapist, became a free man, the New York Daily News reports. Diallo’s wife called him when she fought off Earl Nash in their apartment. Diallo, 61, arrived shortly after to save her, armed with a tire iron, the weapon that killed Nash. The medical…
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Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas
Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…
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Man Shoots Ex-Wife and Son, Confesses on Facebook Live
Earl Valentine is facing first-degree murder charges for the death of his 15-year-old son. He also shot and critically wounded his ex-wife, Keisha Valentine, in her home in Norlina, N.C., according to the New York Daily News. After shooting both his son and ex-wife, Valentine took to Facebook Live to confess early Tuesday. “What’s up,…
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NYC Man Tried to Hail Cab After Being Beaten but Was Rejected, Later Dies
Willy Montilla, 41, was knocked unconscious and later died after being punched three times in the chest by a man Monday morning in the Bronx, N.Y., the New York Daily News reports. At about 9:45 a.m. in the Parkchester section of the New York City borough, Montilla was attacked by a man who hit him…
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Football Player Travis Rudolph Has Another Surprise for His New Little Friend
Travis Rudolph, the Florida State University football player who befriended Bo Paske, an 11-year-old boy with autism, gifted the young man with an honorary jersey and free game tickets, according to a report by Time magazine. Last week their friendship went viral when Rudolph joined Bo for lunch at his middle school after Rudolph saw that…
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2 Young People Shot Dead at J’Ouvert Parade in NYC
Tyreke Borel, 17, and Tiarah Poyau, 22, were shot and killed in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Monday at the J’Ouvert parade, according to the New York Daily News. Tyreke, who was studying to be a car mechanic, was shot in the chest at 3:45 a.m. and was said by police to…
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After Labor Day Weekend, Chicago Homicides Exceed 500 for 2016
Over the Labor Day weekend, 65 people were shot in Chicago and 13 were killed, bringing the city’s homicide total this year so far to more than 500, according to the Chicago Tribune. Out of the three holiday weekends this summer, Labor Day weekend was the city’s deadliest. During Memorial Day weekend, 6 out of 69…
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Beyoncé Put on Vocal Rest, but That Doesn't Stop Her From Celebrating Birthday
We all have to chill out sometimes, even the ever-so-amazing Beyoncé. Unfortunately, just days after one of the best Video Music Awards performances of all time, the queen was ordered by doctors to go on vocal rest, which has forced her to postpone her Sept. 7 show at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.,…
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JetBlue Puts 5-Year-Old on Wrong Flight
Andy Martinez Mercado, 5, was returning home to New York City after visiting with his family in the Dominican Republic when he was put on the wrong flight, ending up in Boston, the New York Daily News reports. It took over three hours to locate Andy after it was discovered that he was missing. “I thought he…
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Texas Death Row Inmate May Have Faked Mental Illness
Gerald Eldridge, 52, may have faked having an illness to avoid execution after fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Cynthia Bogany and her daughter in Houston 23 years ago, the Associated Press reports. Eldridge was convicted in 1993, and in 2009, when he was less than two hours away from being executed by lethal injection, U.S. District…
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