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Here’s a sobering fact for you to ponder this Monday morning:

Murders of African-American teenagers have risen 39% since 2000 and 2001, according to a report due out Monday. Homicides in which blacks ages 14 to 17 years old were the victims rose to 927 over the two-year period of 2006-07, Continue »

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Why, ya’ll? So much for holiday cheer. We hate that almost the entire family had to go down with this deranged murderer. SMH

A picture of the disturbed fella when you… Continue »

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All ya’ll Beyonce stans have made it so that the chick can’t even rock her real ring:

When Jay Z proposed to Beyonce with an 18-carat flawless diamond ring (est. at $5 million), he also presented her with a imitation version (valued at $5,000) so she can wear it on stage and out in public. Continue »

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While this dying student was calling out for help, the 911 dispatcher ignored her:

Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say. But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time, Zimmerman was dead. Her fiance found her body. Continue »

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According to Livesteez, the Black Friday fiasco that we reported on Friday, with one man being killed and a pregnant lady being injured is being investigated:

Police are investigating the incident of a Wal-Mart worker, after he was trampled to death by post-Thanksgiving shoppers. Nassau County police are reviewing surveillance videos of the stampede, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges. Authorities and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee’s brutal death, which rattled shoppers even as they flocked to the Valley Stream store a day later. “It felt a little freakish,” customer Ellie Berhun, 48, told the New York Daily News. “Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale? Please. It’s just too sad for words.” Police said the temporary worker, Jdimytai Damour, was mowed down as about 2,000 bargain-hunters surged into the store at Friday’s 5 a.m. opening, leaving a metal portion of the door frame crumpled like an accordion. Damour, 34, came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store, Wal-Mart said. Other workers were knocked to the ground as they tried to rescue Damour, and customers simply stepped over him and kept shopping even as the store announced it was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or treatment for minor injuries. The store, about 20 miles east of Manhattan, closed for several hours but reopened Friday afternoon, as reported by USAToday. The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday because it has traditionally marked the point when a throng of shoppers pushes stores into profitability for the year. Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart said it added staffers and outside security workers and put up barricades to try to prepare for the consumer rush. But police spokesman Detective Lt. Michael Fleming said Friday that security was inadequate for a scene he called “utter chaos.” Criminal charges are possible, but identifying anyone in the store’s videos may prove difficult, Fleming said.

They are going to have to round up hundreds of people if they want to make some arrests. They should also investigate the Walmart heads who did not have better security in line along with a more reasonable and logical way of handling all those shoppers.  SMH

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People went crazy this morning in Long Island to save about $40 bucks. Come on y’all, killing someone?

A 34-year-old man was trampled to death in a rush of Black Friday shoppers at a Long Island mall today, police said. Long lines of shoppers thronged outside the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres mall in Valley Stream before it opened for post-Thanksgiving business at 5 a.m. “When the doors opened, all hell broke loose,” .He was rushed to a local hospital but declared dead at 6:03, police said. Four other people were hospitalized, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman. She was knocked to the store floor a short distance from where the 34-year-old man was trampled and her fate was unclear. The other three people taken to hospitals suffered minor injuries. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a “tragic situation” and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store.

Jesus take the Wheel. SMH

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Look at these white kids beating each others’ @sses while grown folks sit there watching and taping it. SMH in disgust.

Shout out to N.U.

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In Montecito, Yorba Linda, Corona, and Brea, California, fires have been blazing out of control for 2 days now and hundreds of homes have been lost:

Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes, shut down major freeways and forced thousands of residents in the path of flames to flee to safety. Montecito, ranked by Forbes magazine in 2006 as the seventh most expensive area in the US, with an average home price of $2.9m (£1.9m), is a popular retreat for the rich and famous. Celebrities such as talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey and Hollywood actors Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges and Rob Lowe all own property in the area.

A wildfire stoked by powerful Santa Ana winds damaged or destroyed at least 42 homes in Yorba Linda and Corona Saturday and charred more than 1,000 acres.The fire forced thousands to evacuate the area, while streets and freeways were snarled with traffic.A smaller fire also burned in Brea, near Carbon Canyon and Olinda Village.

It is rumored that the fire was started by an ex-owner of a home. Apparently, it made more sense for him to set that b*tch ablaze once it foreclosed.

We have several pictures from the fire below.

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Make no mistake about it, this is a real commercial. This device will either be a cheater’s best friend, or worst enemy. We called to verify the authenticity, and it is real….triflin’ as hell, but real.

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An 8 year old boy in Arizona smoked his dad and another man:

A man who police believe was shot and killed by his 8-year-old son had consulted a Roman Catholic priest about whether the boy should handle guns and had taught him how to use them, the clergyman said Saturday. The father, Vincent Romero, 29, was from a family of avid hunters and wanted to make sure the boy wasn’t afraid of guns and knew how to handle them, said the Very Rev. John Paul Sauter of St. Johns Catholic Church. The boy’s stepmother had suggested he have a BB gun, the priest said. Romero taught his son how to use a rifle to kill prairie dogs, Sauter said. Police say the boy used a 22.-caliber rifle Wednesday to kill his father and another man, Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos. The priest did not say how he advised the couple or whether they decided to buy him a gun but said Saturday that the boy “was just too young.” “That child, I don’t think he knows what he did, and it was brutal,” said Sauter, who presided at the wedding of the father and stepmother. Continue »