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Woman Sets Herself on Fire in Congressman’s Office
At about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, a woman walked into Democratic U.S. Rep. Danny Davis’ office on the West Side of Chicago, drank from a bottle of hand sanitizer, poured the sanitizer over herself and proceeded to set herself on fire with a lighter, CBS News reports. The reasons behind her actions are unclear, and…
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Texas High School Cheerleader Fighting to Wear Her Hair How She Wants
Kemirah Jn-Marie, 15, is a flyer on the Ross S. Sterling High School varsity cheerleading team and is a victim of discrimination by her coach with regards to her hair, according to an ABC report. She had braids done this year to meet cheerleading requirements that hair must be pulled back in a secure ponytail…
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Young Girl Finds and Returns Stolen Olympic Gold Medal
In June, Olympic canoe racer Joe Jacobi’s car was broken into and someone stole the gold medal that he won at the 1992 Olympics in Spain, WSB-TV reports. But fortunately for him, a 7-year-old girl in Atlanta by the name of Chloe Smith found the medal in a pile of trash while out walking with her dad. According…
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Ohio Woman Shot and Killed After Car Accident Caused by Shooter
Deborah Pearl, 53, was on her way to work Saturday morning when her car was hit by a Jeep that ran through a red light at an intersection in Solon, Ohio, Cleveland 19 News reports. What followed the accident was even worse. After his vehicle had flipped over several times, Matthew Ryan Desha, 29, emerged from it holding…
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3 Inmates Escape From La. Detention Center
On Saturday, a little after 10 p.m., three inmates—Willie E. Ethridge, 34; Michael Elliot, 24; and Walshea Mitchell, 35—escaped from Dorm B of a detention center in Natchitoches Parish, La., and then jumped over two rolls of razor-wire fence, according to USA Today. The inmates were unarmed at the time of their escape, but the…
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Autopsy Reports in-Custody Death of Mich. Man as Accidental
On Wednesday the Kalamazoo, Mich., Public Safety Department released an update of its investigation into the death of James Dunigan, who died in custody 90 minutes after being arrested in the emergency room at Bronson Methodist Hospital, WWMT reports. Dunigan had been admitted to the ER at 2:13 a.m. for treatment of chest pains. According to…
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Kan. Woman Receives Racist Letter: 'This Neighborhood Does Not Need Any Blacks In It'
Nancy Wirths received an anonymous, racist letter Monday stating that black people were not welcome in her Wichita, Kan., neighborhood, KSN.com reports. Wirths says that the handwritten letter was an attack on her and her biracial family—six of her nine grandchildren are African American. “I look over my shoulder. I watch. The kids aren’t allowed…
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Mother of Boy Who Cried 'Affluenza' Released From Home Confinement
The mother of Ethan Couch, the young man who killed four people in a drunken driving accident and blamed it on “affluenza,” was released from home confinement after being charged with hindering apprehension of a felon and money laundering, the Associated Press reports. Tonya Couch fled with her son to Mexico when a video surfaced of…
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South Africa’s 1st Black Female Pilot Sets Stage for Others to Follow
Asnath Mahapa’s father was against her becoming a pilot, but his resistance didn’t stop her. Not only did she become a pilot, but Mahapa became South Africa’s first black female pilot, CNN reports. She started going to flight school after dropping out of the University of Cape Town. She faced a number of challenges, including…
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1st Child With Double Hand Transplant Is Making Amazing Progress
Zion Harvey, 9, received a double hand transplant one year ago at Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and he couldn’t be improving any better, according to CBS News. Last year Zion had a transplant of both his hands and forearms in the first operation of its kind to have been performed on a…
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