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- Chicago Tribune
R. Kelly’s former goddaughter breaks down at his federal trial in Chicago, telling jury he filmed them having sex while she was a minor
CHICAGO — For the first time after two decades of swirling allegations, R. Kelly’s former goddaughter has taken the stand as a prosecution witness in a case against the disgraced singer. Dressed in a white blazer with her hair in long braids, the woman, now 37 and testifying at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago under the pseudonym “Jane,” told the jury she had sexual contact with Kelly for the ...
- The Root
[Updated] 3rd Black Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Anti-White Assault on MTA Bus
Updated as of 8/19/2022 at 9:15 a.m. ET
- Reuters
New York 9/11 museum closes after telling tragedy's story, helping survivors heal
A museum in New York City that told the story of the 9/11 attacks from the perspectives of the people affected has closed its building and ended its walking tours, a co-founder said Thursday. After shuttering the doors of the 16-year-old 9/11 Tribute Museum Wednesday evening, volunteers spent Thursday morning coordinating the pickup of a World Trade Center steel beam that was heading for storage, along with other artifacts such as first responders' gear and parts of the two planes that crashed into the buildings. Attendance has decreased from nearly 300,000 a year prior to a six-month closure in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic to a record low of 26,000 in 2021, said Jennifer Adams-Webb, a co-founder of the museum and CEO of the non-profit September 11th Families' Association, which helped start the museum.
- The Daily Beast
Diehard Trump Lackey Is in for a Strange Trip Behind Bars
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Disgraced former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg recently found himself in a tough spot I know all too well. Like Weisselberg, I was prosecuted for tax fraud by the government. And like him, I was “dead to rights” and looking for a way to mitigate my circumstances. If you really want to know how all this works, how the government handles offenders like us, and what he’s going through, I’m your guy.It’
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Coffee shop giving out free Plan B triggers flood of calls to Texas town’s police
“We have done our research and know that we aren’t breaking any laws,” the coffee shop’s owner said.
- KABC – Los Angeles
Naked man steps out of truck after crash in Van Nuys, walks away
A bystander's video shows a man stepping out of a pickup truck after a crash in Van Nuys and calmly walking away from the scene.
- Oxygen
Wife Of Florida Oncologist Missing At Sea Filed For Divorce The Day He Vanished
The wife of a renowned Florida oncologist who vanished in the Gulf of Mexico over a week ago filed for divorce the day her husband went missing, according to court records. Dr. Chaundre Cross, 49, vanished on Aug. 10 after setting sail in the Gulf of Mexico aboard his 34-foot Crownline, named “Vitamin Sea,” according to the U.S Coast Guard. He was last seen at departing Naples Bay Resort and Marina around 7:30 a.m. His wife, Sarah Jo Cross, filed for divorce in Collier County the same day, count
- INSIDER
Vanessa Bryant learned that the LA Sheriff's Department deleted graphic photos of the crash that killed Kobe and Gianna from an LA Times story, chief testifies
A former media relations captain testified that the sheriff's department never reached out to Vanessa Bryant or other victims' families about the photos.
- People
'Doesn't Seem Real': Family, Friends Grieve 2 Brothers Who Jumped from ' Jaws Bridge'
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- INSIDER
A 'flash mob' of looters ransacked California 7-Eleven in a 'street takeover,' police say. Now cops want to stop the crime tactic from becoming a new trend.
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- Associated Press
In Mexico resort, squatters make a stand against developers
Unchecked development has hit this once laid back beach town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast so hard that developers are now eager — even desperate — to build condominiums and hotels in a shantytown. While police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next to wood and tarpaper shacks, residents are fighting back, saying they are tired of foreign investors excluding local people from their own coast. In the latest clash on July 27, police accompanying a backhoe fired tear gas and tried to knock down some squatters’ homes in the shadow of a new, balconied condo building.
- KTTV
Video shows man fighting teen in Valencia, prompting sheriff's department investigation
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- People
Chicago Mom Loses Both of Her Feet After Boating Accident at Lake Michigan 'Playpen'
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- KGO – San Francisco
Knife-wielding thieves targeting SJ bakery workers caught on video
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- BuzzFeed News
The Only Way For Some People To Stay In San Francisco Is To Steal
As San Francisco’s wealthy residents panic over property crime, some of the city’s less privileged can’t find ways to make ends meet.View Entire Post ›
- KTVU
Flash mob vandalizes, loots 7-Eleven store following street takeover
The Los Angeles Police Department released new video and sought the public's help with identifying the people seen on video looting and vandalizing a 7-Eleven store following a street takeover earlier this week.
- TheGrio
American Airlines honors first African-American woman to earn pilot’s license with historic all-Black female crew
Some may find it difficult to believe that in 2022, we’re still commemorating the “first Black” anything, but American Airlines […] The post American Airlines honors first African-American woman to earn pilot’s license with historic all-Black female crew appeared first on TheGrio.
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LAPD seek suspects after 7-Eleven gets ransacked
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- Associated Press
Nigeria's Osun River: Sacred, revered and increasingly toxic
Yeyerisa Abimbola has dedicated most of her 58 years on Earth to the Osun, a waterway in deeply religious Nigeria named for the river goddess of fertility. As the deity’s chief priestess, she leads other women known as servants of Osun in daily worship and sacrificial offerings along the riverbank. The river, which flows through the dense forest of the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove — designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 — is revered for its cultural and religious significance among the Yoruba-speaking people predominant in southwestern Nigeria, where Osun is widely worshipped.