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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One of the mothers who died when an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff sent a text two days before the wreckage was discovered, saying she was so sick she might have to go to a hospital, according to 911 call records from Washington state. Cheryl Hart of Vancouver, Washington, […]
Pro-Trump vloggers Diamond and Silk are telling any conservation who’ll listen about why Facebook on Monday said their “content and brand” were “unsafe to the community are tell.” The two women, whose real names are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, respectively, often appear on Fox News and created their Facebook page in 2014. “The only thing that […]
Former President Barack Obama would like to create “a million young Barack Obamas” to run the next stage in the “relay race that is human progress,” the Washington Examiner reported. Obama made the comment Sunday at a conference in Japan while discussing the Obama Foundation’s work to help young people around the world get connected […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Emotional tributes to anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela poured in on Wednesday during an hours-long memorial service attended by thousands at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium. Madikizela-Mandela died on April 2 at the age of 81. “The embodiment of courage. The embodiment of resilience. The embodiment of strength,” poet and singer Mzwakhe Mbuli said during […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A 12-year-old girl described to a judge Wednesday how as a toddler she was repeatedly abused by her foster parents, an ex-Army couple convicted of child endangerment who were in court to be resentenced. John and Carolyn Jackson lived at the Army’s Picatinny Arsenal facility when they were charged in 2013, […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The first accuser to testify at Bill Cosby‘s retrial described the comedian as “a serial rapist” Wednesday, stunning the courtroom as she parried with his lawyers. In her second day on the witness stand, Heidi Thomas, a Colorado music teacher, told jurors she came forward with her allegations in early 2015 […]
DETROIT (AP) — A man charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Michigan girl is now accused of killing her before she was expected to testify in the rape case. Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said Wednesday that two men are facing charges connected to the death of Mujey Dumbuya. Her partially clothed body was found […]
In Omaha, Nebraska a second grader was struck and killed by a school bus. KETV Omaha reports 8-year-old Haji Mohamed was exiting the bus with other students when he ran into the street in front of the bus. “We stood there, we prayed, his mother fell to her knees, I brought her back up, we kept praying, I […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyer launched a blistering courtroom attack on the comedian’s accuser Tuesday, branding her a con artist whose goal was “money, money and lots more money.” Tom Mesereau told jurors in his opening statement at the former TV star’s sex-assault trial that Andrea Constand wasn’t attracted to Cosby but was […]
Michigan Governor Bill Synder announced that the state would shut down the water bottle program in Flint, Michigan and churches and organizations in the area in are preparing to be overwhelmed by a surge of people looking for help. NBC reports that Gov. Synder announced the change on April 6 after, “strides have been made […]