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via BlackAmericaWeb: (Sigh) Once again, the inflammatory web is pitting friends against friends. Family against family. Lovers against lovers. And it’s all over two words… “Laurel” and “Yanny” That’s right, someone up to no good decided to create a recording where a voice says the word “Laurel.” …….or is it “Yanny?” CLICK HERE to read […]

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*Marissa Alexander may be a little more than a week away from getting a taste of freedom. A judge set Alexander’s bond hearing for November 8, when she will find out if she will be released from prison while she awaits her new trial over an incident in which she fired what she described as a […]

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    Ariel Castro, the man accused of kidnapping three Cleveland women and keeping them locked up for ten years, returns to court Wednesday morning. Castro will be in court for a pre-trial hearing at 9:00 a.m. Ariel Castro was in court last week. That’s when he pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges of […]

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A Columbus man accused of threatening President Barack Obama on Twitter is scheduled for an initial court appearance Tuesday. A complaint filed by the U.S. Secret Service in federal court in Columbus says the threatening tweets were made last month and included threats to kill the president. The complaint says that when interviewed by a […]

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From an orphanage in Ethiopia to a small town in Oklahoma, two 8-year-old girls faced another life-altering change: They heard words for the first time. “Can you hear mamma?”was the first sentence Ruby Shasteen heard from her mother, Chris Shasteen. “Her eyes were just full of tears and she’s just looking around trying to figure out, ‘Where’s […]