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Walmart has been ordered to pay $4.4 million to Michael Mangum, who filed a lawsuit against the supermarket chain last year after an employee racially profiled him. Mangum, who is Black, sued Walmart after he alleged he was followed by a security worker in a Wood Village, Oregon store, per CBS News. In court documents, Mangum […]
A 30-year-old in Washington said a woman he met on a dating app took him hostage and robbed him at gunpoint with an accomplice. As the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department shared in a press release, the unidentified man informed deputies he traveled to meet the woman, who described herself as a similar age to him, after connecting on Plenty of […]
Buffalo Bills rookie punter Matt Araiza and two of his former San Diego State teammates have been accused of gang raping a 17-year-old girl. As ESPN reports, a lawsuit was filed in San Diego County Superior Court this week naming Araiza, Aztecs freshman Zavier Leonard, and Nowlin Ewaliko. The three are facing claims of rape, false imprisonment, and […]
A Pennsylvania high school that had been expecting a shipment of school supplies instead received a shipment of guns, local outlet NBC10 reports. Chester High School in Pennsylvania’s Delaware County was getting things in order for the upcoming school year, and in turn was expecting to receive a shipment of textbooks and other supplies on Friday. Instead, school maintenance […]
Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo was fired in a unanimous vote on Wednesday night. The school board came to the choice during a closed session meeting in which 50-year-old Arredondo did not take part due to his disagreement with the decision-making and having received death threats, CNN reports. His lawyer George Hyde shared a […]
Almost everything eventually comes back into style, but did anyone foresee corporal punishment of kids in school making a return in 2022? The Cassville School District in Missouri announced Tuesday that a new policy is set to be implemented in which students can be punished with a paddle, per USA Today. School district superintendent Merlyn Johnson said parents […]
A severe drought that dried up a Texas river exposed dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago. CNN reports experts recently discovered the fossilized tracks in Dinosaur Valley State Park near Fort Worth, Texas. Scientists believe the tracks belong to the Acrocanthosaurus, a 15-foot tall creature that weighed about seven tons as an adult. “Most tracks that have recently been […]
Prosecutors won’t pursue charges against the two white Atlanta police officers involved in the fatal 2020 shooting of Rayshard Brooks. CNN reports murder and assault charges have been dismissed against Officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan. Both men were charged in the shooting death of 27-year-old Brooks, who was shot and killed outside a Wendy’s parking lot on June 12, […]
The presumably brainless among us who insist on widely amplifying fabricated claims in hopes of achieving virality have now forced Magic Johnson to speak out about a made-up story that’s been making the rounds as of late. A recent tweet shared alongside a photo of Johnson carried with it the claim that he had donated […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the state’s rap lyrics bill into law after an Assembly vote. Bill AB 2799, as first reported by Billboard, was recently unanimously approved by the state Senate and was on Monday the subject of another Assembly vote which cleared the path for it to move toward being […]
