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Report: Taxpayers Footing Rehab Bill for ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch, the Texas teen whose deadly drunk driving was excused by a lenient judge because of “affluenza,” is serving his time in rehab on mostly taxpayers’ money, RadarOnline reports. According to RadarOnline, it is largely the public who will be responsible for the now 17-year-old’s $438,000-per-year rehab […]

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Barely Anyone Buys Actual Father’s Day Presents The National Retail Federation released a survey detailing how much, where, and what people will buy for Father’s Day this year. The total consumer spending rings in at $12.5 billion, which sounds like a substantial amount until it’s compared to almost every other major American holiday. Mother’s Day spending nearly topped $20 billion this year, and Christmas […]

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4 Black Women will Transform a “White Sister” Weekly on New Lifetime Series ‘Girlfriend Intervention’ The Lifetime network has announced that it’s picked up four new unscripted series to add to its primetime lineup, including a handful featuring black cast members. First: a complete makeover series titled “Girlfriend Intervention,” which stars “four wise, poised and stylish African American […]

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California Dad Attacks 11-Year-Old for Bullying His Son A California man was arrested by police after attacking an 11-year-old boy who was reportedly bullying his 9-year-old son. Burnis Hurd, according to police, grabbed the child and bashed his head against the bus window and shouted threats against not just that child, but others on the bus […]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/obama-figure-hanging-overpass_n_5432541.html The Secret Service has joined the investigation after an effigy of President Barack Obama was found hanging from a highway bridge. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Sharp said sheriff’s deputies handled the initial call after someone hung a dummy wearing a full suit and a mask of the president off the highway bridge. Read more. GA […]

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An Atlanta teen used a rope to climb 15 feet down a storm drain to rescue a 3-year-old boy who had fallen in. Duntrey Murray, 14, had been playing basketball nearby with pal Ransom McCain in northwest Atlanta when neighbors heard the cries of Jaylin Willis, reports area news outlet WSB-TV. Jaylin had plummeted down the uncovered sewer […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama interviews NFL cornerback Richard Sherman in a new video promoting her Let’s Move! campaign. Sherman was visiting the White House with his team, the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, earlier this week.During the video, Sherman demonstrates healthy cooking, and Obama jumps in as a sideline reporter, spoofing Sherman’s post-game rant that […]

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See 50 Cent’s Unbelievably Bad First Pitch Queens native 50 Cent threw out the first pitch before the Mets-Pirates game at Citi Field on Tuesday night, and as the announcer put it, the results were “not great.” Later the rapper, who claims he’s a baseball fan, explained on Instagram, “I’m a hustler not a Damn ball player. LMAO.” […]

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Angela Bassett Set To Direct Whitney Houston Biopic On Lifetime Angela Bassett is set to direct an upcoming Whitney Houston biopic that will air as a Lifetime Original Movie. The new film will be the talented actress’s directorial debut. “I have such regard for both Whitney’s and Bobby’s amazing talents and accomplishments; and I feel a responsibility in […]

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New Voter ID Scheme: Pop Quizzes! Unsurprisingly, now that voter identification has become the law of the land in Arkansas, poll workers are wielding their newfound power with pride. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas has received numerous complaints from voters who say poll workers “quizzed” them about the information on their IDs, one of the […]

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It’s Now Possible to Text 911 Starting last week, the four major cell phone service providers — Sprint, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T — enabled customers to text their emergencies to the local governments in 16 states that are set up for it. (Only Vermont is currently using the technology statewide.) For now, the FCC says that […]

Yes She Can: Brooklyn Eighth-Grader Publishes Two Novels On Her Own When 13-year-old Angela Content told her mother she was going to write a novel, her mom didn’t take it too seriously. When the teen told her mom she was going to publish the book, her mom brushed it aside as just a dream. But […]