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Former YouTube star Austin Jones pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography on February 1. The Chicago area 26-year-old rose to YouTube stardom after uploading his music videos to the site in 2013. Even following the child pornography charges, Jones still has 500,000 subscribers to his YouTube page. According to prosecutors, Jones […]
More than 1,600 inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have been without proper power and heat for the last week, the New York Times reports. A spokeswoman for Herman Quay, the jail’s warden, told the Times that the building had gone through a power outage last Saturday, but denied that heat and hot water […]
The woman who booked multiple hotel rooms for people without shelter in Chicago during the polar vortex has inspired others to help, CBS Chicago reports. Okay, so I asked my cousins in #Chicago whether it was really as cold as people are saying with boiling water instantly turning to snow. Apparently it is 😮 #PolarVortex #polarvortex2019 pic.twitter.com/KR7BnKoTAw […]
Florida man strikes again! According to Panama City News Herald, Gainesville native Steven Michael Berlin was arrested Monday and charged with armed robbery after sticking up a restaurant, even though he didn’t have a gun on him at the time of the incident. The Gainesville police report claims Berlin, 56, entered Szechuan Palace and sat […]
The Midwest is being hit with severly low temperatures as the polar vortex continues to ravage the region, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. In Chicago, subfreezing temperatures have paralyzed the city’s activity with residents enduring harsh wind-chills and the risk of frost bite. In response to this life-threatening cold, one good Samaritan has agreed to put up 70 homeless […]
Giving the plant-based lifestyle an honest shot not only has the potential to make you feel a whole lot better, but it now boasts the added benefit of possibly landing you free Beyoncé and JAY-Z tickets for the foreseeable future. Wednesday night, Beyoncé announced the Greenprint Project, which aims to show the far-reaching impact even part-time veganism can have […]
Fox has “temporarily suspended” production on its series Empire and Proven Innocent. The production pause is due to the extreme cold currently enveloping Chicago, thanks to the Polar Vortex, per a report from E! News. No additional info on production scheduling was made available, except that both shows had been temporarily halted due to local weather. Chicago broke a […]
A prick of a human being was caught on camera in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend punching two women at a food stand, then bolting. Now, the Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public’s help to track down the as-yet-unidentified man. According to the victims, they had stopped at a hot dog […]
Donald Trump‘s meeting with Clemson football players was newsworthy, but not in the way that most of Trump’s attempted fetes for sports champions have been. While Trump has repeatedly made headlines when players refused to visit the White House, particularly in the NFL where Trump has made a point of inserting himself into the debate, the most recent […]
If you make a name as a lifestyle guru, you’re inviting people to judge the way you live. But even with that caveat, it’s hard to watch the extreme vitriol that folks are slinging at B. Smith and her husband following the revelations that her husband has a girlfriend. Smith’s husband, Dan Gasby, has been […]
