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A Republican Tennessee legislator faced backlash this week after he proposed to revive lynching-style hangings. Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) made the proposal Tuesday during a Criminal Justice Committee meeting that addressed HB 1245—a bill that would allow death row inmates to be killed by firing squad. While expressing his support for the bill, Sherrell suggested an […]
Ten people have been hospitalized after a Spirit Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida due to a fire inside the cabin, WTLV reports. Spirit Airlines flight 259 departed from Dallas around 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday bound for Orlando, but after the fire broke out the plane had to land at Jacksonville […]
Former Tennessee police officer Maegan Hall says she was “sexually groomed” at the police department she was fired from in a new lawsuit, per NBC News. The 26-year-old Hall, who previously admitted to engaging in sexual relationships with four officers at the La Vergne Police Department, has alleged that she was subjected to “sexual grooming” in the […]
Former NFL player Zac Stacy was sentenced to six months in jail this week for attacking his ex-girlfriend. According to WESH, Stacy pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief last month. His sentencing comes after security footage was entered into evidence, appearing to show him punching and throwing ex-girlfriend Kristin Evans into a TV in the presence of their infant son. Stacy was arrested […]
Peruvian authorities say they’ve detained a man who was allegedly found carrying an ancient mummy. According to the BBC, 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo was taken into custody Saturday after he and two others were spotted at an archaeological site in Puno. Police confronted the seemingly intoxicated Bermejo at the scene and noticed he was carrying a large red cooler […]
New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 each to demonstrators who were trapped by NYPD officers during the racial justice protests nationwide in 2020, the New York Times reports. The city will pay the amount to hundreds of protesters, who were pinned in by officers who beat and arrested demonstrators en masse using a […]
U.S. states have taken legal action in an effort to expand abortion pill access. According to Reuters, attorneys general in 12 Democratic-led states are suing the Food and Drug Administration over the restricted distribution of mifepristone. The medication is part of a two-pill regimen that’s used to terminate pregnancies within the first 10 weeks. While the second […]
A pregnant woman is seeking to be released from prison for the benefit of her unborn child. According to WTSP, 24-year-old Natalia Harrell was arrested last year in connection to a deadly shooting in Miami. Prosecutors say Harrell was in an Uber with five other people following a night of partying. At one point during […]
Nicole Joseph, associate dean for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, issued an apology last week to its students for relying on the AI tool ChatGPT to write a statement in the wake of the mass shooting at Michigan State University. “While we believe in the message of inclusivity […]
A reformed drug dealer for a biker gang recently kicked off his porn career by injuring his penis during an OnlyFans shoot. According to the New York Post, Liam Ellis, an Australian man who spent more than four years in prison for drug offenses, has been forced to reconsider his new path after suffering a penis […]
