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March 26, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former University of Oklahoma fraternity member caught on video leading a racist chant said Wednesday…
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March 25, 2015
Deadline’s article Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings – About Time or Too Much of Good Thing poses the…
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March 24, 2015
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit mother was arrested Tuesday after the frozen bodies of a boy and girl were found…
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March 24, 2015
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) — A threat against President Barack Obama’s niece, a player on Princeton’s women’s basketball team, prompted…
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March 23, 2015
PHOENIX (AP) — Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday immediately after…
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March 23, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is weighing a free-speech challenge to Texas’ refusal to issue a license plate bearing…
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March 22, 2015
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police have served search warrants at marijuana activist Charlo Greene’s Alaska Cannabis Club. KTUU reports…
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March 21, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge ended Chris Brown’s probation Friday and closed the R&B singer’s assault case filed over…
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March 21, 2015
I missed the initial airing of the Empire finale. I’d planned to stay home and live-tweet it like I usually…
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March 21, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abreham Zemedagegehu, an immigrant from Ethiopia, knew he was in jail, but he didn’t know why. Eventually,…
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March 20, 2015
Preachers of the prosperity ministry like Creflo Dollar in many ways parallel high priests of hip-hop like Sean “Jay-Z” Carter…
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March 20, 2015
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man who was sentenced to death for a killing he didn’t commit and spent nearly four…
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March 20, 2015
PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal and state authorities are investigating the hanging death of a black man in Mississippi…
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March 20, 2015
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — State legislators are pushing to make it much harder to release police officer body camera…
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March 19, 2015
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on the Internet, you’ve seen it – someone, somewhere opining about how…
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March 19, 2015
Atlanta — A well-regarded personal trainer was struck and killed by a freight train in Buckhead on Tuesday afternoon. The 30-year-old Travis…
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March 18, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Air Force veteran and airplane mechanic accused of plotting to travel to Syria to…
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March 17, 2015
CLAYTON, Missouri (AP) — A man accused of shooting two officers last week in Ferguson was not targeting police or…
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March 16, 2015
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman stepped into the shower this week to help ease the discomfort of stomach…
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March 14, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — The ministry of a prominent Georgia megachurch pastor and evangelist who teaches that God wants to bless…