Author: Kyle Swenson
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XXXTentacion: The nasty, brutish and short life of the chart-topping rapper killed Monday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy was small – he reportedly barely tipped 125 pounds on a scale – but he led with his fists. Violence radiated off him. “I’ve been fighting since I was a kid,” he…
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She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword.
With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed. According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better. Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games,…
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She said she killed her son in Colorado and hid him in a manure pile. The truth is more sinister, police say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was all about the land. The 7 11 Ranch stretches over 700 empty acres on the wind-tossed western slopes of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The closest town — Gunnison — is a 20-minute drive. China…
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Chelsea Manning showed up at a far-right pro-Trump bash, infuriating the far-left
Hours after hundreds of thousands of pink-hatted marchers pounded down New York streets to protest President Trump’s first year in office, a different sort of one-year anniversary party kicked off in a Hell’s Kitchen nightclub last Saturday. The “A Night for Freedom” was billed as a “gathering of patriots and political dissidents who are bored…
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Florida love triangle led to a murder-for-hire plot, police say. But the wrong woman was killed.
Heartbreak and jealously were the twin engines driving the scheme, police would later say. Ishnar Marie Lopez-Ramos was in love. The object of the 35-year-old Floridian’s affection, however, was tangled up with another woman. To solve her heart’s woes Lopez-Ramos allegedly concocted a scheme straight from a dime novel or a telenovela: eliminate the other…
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Carrie Fisher’s gross but supremely satisfying warning to a Hollywood sexual harasser
In the wake of Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women across the world have stepped forward to share their stories of sexual abuse and harassment. Heather Ross, also known as Heather Robinson, is a television and movie industry vet who recently told a morning radio show in Tucson about an ugly run-in she had with…
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A police officer posted a ‘don’t drink and drive’ video. Then he was involved in a deadly crash.
Hours before he was involved in a fiery highway crash claimed three lives, an off-duty Los Angeles police officer reportedly posted a video to his Instagram account with a “dontdrinkanddrive” hashtag. The 10-second video appears to have been taped in a bar around 7 p.m. Tuesday, and shows a half-finished beer glass and an animated…
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America’s opioid problem is so bad it’s cutting into U.S. life expectancy
Prosecutors in New York announced this week that an August drug raid yielded 140 pounds of fentanyl, the most in the city’s history and enough to kill 32 million people, they told New York 4. Those numbers underscore the dizzying size of the current opioid crisis, and the report of the New York bust comes…
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A botched surgery left a barber with erectile dysfunction. Decades later, he took revenge.
The old man booked his appointment under an alias. Allen Gold – that’s what he called himself. But his real name was Stanwood Elkus. At home in Lake Elsinore, California, the retired barber tended to the final details with solicitous care. Business papers and a note to pay the gardener were left on a cabinet.Medication…
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‘We’ll never be the same’: A hydroponic tomato garden inspired police to raid a family’s home
The police report would claim it all kicked off at 7:38 a.m., but Bob Harte later thought it had to be earlier. His 7:20 a.m. alarm had just yanked him awake. Got to get the kids – a boy in seventh grade, a girl in kindergarten – ready for school. Then he heard, like a…