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iStock(SPRINGFIELD, Va.) -- A black sixth-grader apologized to her school on Monday, admitting that she had falsely accused white classmates of pinning her to the ground and forcefully cutting her dreadlocks.According to her family, Amari Allen lied last week when she said classmates at Immanuel Christian School, a private school in Springfield, Virginia, called her hair "ugly" and "nappy" while they pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks during recess.Allen […]

iStock(SOUTHAVEN, Miss.) -- No one is disputing that police killed the wrong man when they were looking for someone else.They are arguing about whether the now-deceased man had any constitutional rights because the victim was an undocumented immigrant.The legal drama is playing out in Mississippi following the July 27, 2017, shooting death of Ismael Lopez.The lawyers for his widow and his estate have argued that the case amounts to a […]

iStock(MANCHESTER, Tenn.) -- A Tennessee teenager took his own life after being outed as bisexual by classmates who bullied him, according to his family.Channing Smith, a 16-year-old student at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tennessee, died by suicide last week, leaving his family looking for answers. The family said it reached out to the teen's friends, classmates and social media connections and found out the shocking truth.The teen […]

Hailshadow/iStock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Medical officials in Ohio said at least 10 people just died from drug overdoses in only 26 hours, calling it an "unusually high number" for the area in a such a short period of time. The Franklin County Coroner's Office on Sunday reported a surge in overdose deaths and warned residents that they could be fentanyl-related. "As of about 10am this morning we have had 10 people […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After burying Montana, a winter storm moves east Monday, with flash flooding and a severe weather threat in store for the Great Plains and Midwest. Browning, Montana, received a whopping 48 inches of snow, as forecasted. In Great Falls, Montana, 19.3” of snow fell over the last two days, making it the region's second snowiest two days ever recorded at any time of the year -- […]

Gallia County Sheriff/Facebook(CARY, N.C.) -- Police in North Carolina have captured three of four "extremely dangerous" inmates who escaped from an Ohio jail early Sunday morning.Brynn K. Martin, 40, Christopher M. Clemente, 24, Troy R. McDaniel Jr., 30, were apprehended overnight in Cary, North Carolina, just west of Raleigh, according to Cary officials. The fourth escapee, 29-year-old Lawrence R. Lee III, was still at large, according to authorities.The four men […]

DNY59/iStock(DALLAS) -- When Amber Guyger placed her key in the door of apartment No. 1478 at the South Side Flats apartment complex in Dallas, she set off a chain of events that cost an innocent man his life and ended her career as a police officer.A little more than a year after Guyger, 31, fatally shot Botham Jean when she mistook his apartment for her own apartment one floor below, […]

TriggerPhoto/iStock(NEW YORK) --A year-long review into how the Archdiocese of New York was handling sexual abuse allegations has prompted some recommendations but found that overall they have been following the rules.Barbara Jones, a former District Judge, was asked by Cardinal Timothy Dolan to conduct the review which was pegged to whether the archdiocese's policies were in line with those put forth by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002, […]

traveler1116/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- An ad recruiting people for the Los Angeles Police Department appeared on the conservative news outlet Breitbart, and the department is asking questions about how it happened.The ad appears to have been first highlighted by Noah Shachtman, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, who tweeted a screengrab of the ad on Saturday.The LAPD responded on Twitter, acknowledging but not directly naming the right-wing website where the ad […]