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Six men are charged in the murder of Nicholas Jackson II, 15, of Norcross, Georgia, who was killed Thursday while playing Play Station in the basement of his home, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Anthony Bernard Lumpkin, 32, Rico Dehaven West, 19, Eddie Lewis Green, 46, Michael Davis, 23, and Timothy Lamar Johnson, 34, and Jason Dozier, 36, broke into the Jackson home Thursday at approximately 6:30
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The Clayton County Police Department is searching for 14-year-old Antonio Williams after the boy got into a vehicle with an unknown man at a gas station and vanished, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Surveillance video shows Antonio getting into the vehicle at around 9:40 p.m. on Monday, January 30. His mother recovered his bicycle at the gas station on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro, Georgia on the outskirts of Atlanta.
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While they may differ on foreign policy, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have formed a strategic alliance. Reports claim that Mitt Romney’s aids are in close contact with Ron Paul and that the two campaigns coordinate events with each other.
Paul has a strong following but is unlikely to win the nomination and Romney is hoping that Paul supporters will help him defeat President Barack Obama in the upcoming election.
The Washington Post
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The tale of American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their epic transcontinental journey has long been a fixture in history books. A little known fact behind the pair’s adventure was that a Black slave helped the men bridge cultural gaps between themselves and American Indian they encountered along the way.
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Terra Hall of Fox4 Kansas City recently reported that a slave
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Representative Phil Gingrey (R-Georgia), walked out of President Barack Obama‘s address at the annual National Prayer Breakfast after becoming offended that the president insinuated politics into what is supposed to be a non-partisan event, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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“He was glad that the president attended, but he felt that there were 364 days in a year to give a
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Ramarley Graham was fatally shot by plain clothes officers, after he tried to run from them during a confrontation Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Daily News.
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Graham, 19, was pursued by a team of police who had attempted to stop and question him. Reportedly, police witnessed the youth adjusting the waistband of his pants on the street and immediately assumed he had a gun. The youth,
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Michael Chavis, Jr. (pictured) was arrested Wednesday morning and stands accused of dangling a 5-year-old child above an “aggressive” chained pit bull last January 15.
According to police, the 22-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania resident had become incensed when the child, along with some other neighborhood children, kicked up dirt on his parked vehicle and shouted curse words at him. Witnesses state that Chavis angrily retaliated by grabbing the kindergartner, then intimidated him by dangling him
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia’s famine is over, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
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The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale – based on the death rate – to the fourth
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. — A discharged Marine private who slit his wrists in a suicide attempt is fighting his military conviction for deliberately injuring himself, arguing the punishment is inconsistent with the armed forces’ efforts to battle a rise in suicides during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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