Source: AP / The Huffington Post ATLANTA — Mourners are set to gather for the funeral of former Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly in Atlanta. Kelly’s funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at Jackson Memorial Baptist Church. The 34-year-old was found dead May 1 of a suspected drug overdose. Kriss Kross was introduced to the [...]
Source: Jeffrey Young and Chris Kirkham / The Huffington Post When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690. Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center [...]
Source: The Huffington Post A 3-year-old Florida boy fatally shot himself Tuesday using a gun he found in the bedroom that he shared with his uncle. Jadarrius Speights was alone when he accidentally discharged an “unsecured 9mm handgun” left in a backpack that belonged to his uncle, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Police arrested [...]
Source: AP / The Huffington Post AUSTIN, Texas — A store of ammonium nitrate is what exploded April 17 at a Central Texas plant, killing 14 people, injuring hundreds and devastating an adjoining town. The finding was expected, and officials had said they were focusing their investigation on the explosive chemical used in many fertilizers, [...]
Source: Emily Lane / Reuters / The Huffington Post JACKSON, Miss., – A Mississippi inmate is facing execution on Tuesday despite an admission last week by federal authorities that statements made during his 1994 murder trial about a hair sample pushed the limits of science and were ‘invalid’. Willie Jerome Manning, 44, was convicted and sentenced [...]
Source: Alexis Kleinman / The Huffington Post The world’s first 3D printed gun fired its first shot on Sunday, according to this video released by Defense Distributed, the controversial company pushing for D-I-Y weapons. Cody Wilson, of Defense Distributed, the company behind The Liberator, told the BBC that he is not concerned with the potential [...]
Source: Brady McCombs / AP / The Huffington Post SALT LAKE CITY — Family members of a Utah soccer referee who died a week after a player punched him in the head called on athletes around the world Sunday night to hold their tempers in check so another family doesn’t have to suffer. They spoke at [...]
Source: AP / The Huffington Post NEW YORK — A once-powerful New York state senator brazenly tried to short-circuit a federal fraud investigation of his law practice by seeking inside information from an employee of the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office, prosecutors said Monday. Sen. John Sampson told the employee – who has since been fired [...]
Source: Joshua Freed / The Huffington Post Frontier Airlines plans to start charging up to $100 for a carry-on bag and $2 for coffee or soda, although its announcement on Wednesday did say that passengers will get to keep the whole can. The new carry-on fee is for bags in the overhead bin, so small bags [...]
Source: Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) revealed that some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales recently because they didn’t want to “be seen helping the president.” Two weeks ago, only three Republican senators voted for the bipartisan background checks amendment sponsored by Toomey and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), [...]
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