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Alinka Castaneda, teenager living in L.A. was reported missing in January and her family has gone through devastation as they hadn’t heard of their loved one in months. According to police reports, Castaneda was last seen entering an unknown vehicle in the early morning of January 1, on South Carodale Avenue, after she left her family home in Carson, California. A footage obtained from a nearby doorbell camera showed a man approaching the girl moments before her disappearance.Initially, the family believed that she might have run away, but as time passed by, they were more certain that it wasn’t the…

Temecia and Rodney Jackson are relieved after it was reported that their 1-month-old daughter will be returned home.Mila Jackson was born on March 21 in an at-home birth in Desoto, Texas. The Jacksons took their child for a check-up three days later at their pediatrician. The couple said the nurse practitioner who examined Mila gave a positive report, but the married couple received news later on that day from Dr. Anand Bhatt that their daughter had a dangerously high level of jaundice. Bhatt reportedly suggested that the couple bring their child to the hospital for treatment. The Jacksons chose to…

A retired Minneapolis firefighter was arrested for allegedly shooting and yelling racial slurs at a former University of Minnesota football player.According to Fox 9 Minneapolis, Tellis Redmon told Minneapolis police officers he was driving through an alleyway of retired firefighter Eric Jagers’ neighborhood to pick up his 5-year-old son. Redmon, 44, said he saw wooden boards strewn along with other debris in the alleyway. The former running back says he attempted to avoid hitting the objects, and Jagers suddenly appeared and threw a boot at his vehicle after a piece of debris landed on his property. Sports Illustrated reported that…

KANSAS CITY, MO – Ralph Yarl, a 16 year old Black boy, was shot twice by a white man in North Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home while attempting to pick up his sibling. The white man reportedly shot Ralph in the head through the glass door, then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again. The family has described it as a hate crime, and community members are calling for justice for the young victim. “This was not an ‘error’; this was a hate crime. You don’t shoot a child…

A security guard who had been charged with siccing a dog on a Black man while working in a New Jersey restaurant and nightclub will face no jail time. Prosecutors decided to reduce his charge from second-degree aggravated assault to a lesser weapons charge.The prosecution identified the dog as the security guard’s weapon in the violent 2021 confrontation that left then-26-year-old Khalif Hunter, of Burlington City, New Jersey, bleeding from bite wounds in the club’s parking lot. Court documents show Steven T. Rudy, 34, of Virginia pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree charge of unlawful possession of a weapon (the canine)…

Two police officers have been indicted for the death of Herman Whitfield III in Indianapolis, Indiana. The indictment was handed down more than one year after Whitfield’s death.A grand jury indicted patrol officers Steven Sanchez and Adam Ahmad on April 13, according to Marion County Prosecutor’s Office. Sanchez and Adam were both charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, and several battery counts. Whitfield died on April 25, 2022 while in police custody after his parents called 911 while their son was suffering from a mental health crisis. The Indianapolis Star reported that the 39-year-old pianist was hit multiple times with…

TikTok star Keith Lee has helped change the fortune of another small business owner. In March, Ella Livingston’s chocolate business reportedly sold out of all products in 45 minutes after a food review on TikTok from Lee.According to Insider, Livingston started her business Cocoa Asante in 2018 to honor her family’s decades-long legacy in cocoa farming. The business is operated by Livingston and her family. They reportedly utilize cocoa farms owned by Livingston’s relatives in Ghana to produce their chocolates. Then the chocolate is packaged by her and her team in the U.S. Livingston reportedly said her business did well…

Three teenage boys are speaking out following their encounter with a retired NYPD police officer who chased them in New York City for several minutes, allegedly with his gun drawn.On Nov. 24, 2021, three boys named Kawun, Kyi-el and Brendan — who were between the ages of 12 and 14 — were playing with a basketball on Saratoga Avenue as they walked past a real estate business in Brooklyn. One of the boys hit a surveillance camera for the business with the basketball before running away down Pacific Street. Retired NYPD officer Kruythoff Forrester’s family owns the business and chased…

The niece of a Florida couple reportedly nabbed in Haiti by a violent gang on the first day of their trip to the island nation is becoming uncertain as the days and weeks go by even as a new report suggests the abduction could’ve been avoided. Abigail and Jean-Dickens Toussaint, both 33, were kidnapped in the Port-Au-Prince area on March 18. The married couple was taken from a bus traveling from the airport to a festival in Léogâne, the Haitian Times reports.US State Department officials have confirmed that they are working with Haitian authorities and “U.S. government interagency partners” to…

Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene started with a bang as correspondent Lesley Stahl read aloud things that have been said about the Georgia Republican, including that she’s “unhinged,” a “moron,” and “Trump in high heels.” Before the interview clip, Stahl gave an introduction of Greene, noting that’s often referred to as MTG and has, unlike most members of the House, become “Well-known nationally.”“Marjorie Taylor Greene – MTG – is as famous as they get,” said Stahl. She pointed out that the interview was conducted before the news of the indictment of Donald Trump broke. As the…

Peter Meijer, an ex-Republican congressman who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot and subsequently lost a primary contest to a Trump-backed opponent, blasted the indictment of Trump by a grand jury in Manhattan on Thursday, describing it as “weak f***ing sauce.” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took over an ongoing investigation into the allegations that Trump had falsified business records to cover up hush money payments he made to porn star Stormy Daniels upon taking office in January 2022. Daniels alleges that Trump slept with her in 2006, the same year of the birth of…

New York Times correspondent, best-selling author, and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman said she personally got texts from Trumpworld figures celebrating the indictment of former President Donald Trump. News broke on Thursday afternoon that Trump has been indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigating the circumstances around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.Within minutes of that news breaking, Haberman reported getting texts from Trump Organization contacts she has developed over years of reporting on Trump in New York.On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Haberman filled in some more detail on the texts, and the inner workings…

Fox News anchor Bret Baier scored an interview with Trump attorney Alina Habba and asked her for details on former President Donald Trump’s arrest and processing following his criminal indictment. News broke on Thursday afternoon that Trump has been indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury investigating the circumstances around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Within an hour of that news, Baier managed to book Habba, who handles civil matters for Trump but is in contact with the former president and his legal team, on Thursday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report, and asked her…

David Banner has issued an impassioned plea for the hip-hop community to band together to help Mississippi Delta residents whose lives were devastated by an EF-4 tornado on March 24.Winds that reached 170 mph tore through parts of Silver City, which has an estimated population of 337 people, and Rolling Fork, which is home to roughly 2,000 people. According to CNN, at least 26 people were killed by the storms that left a trail of wreckage behind On March 28, Banner posted a video to Instagram showing debris and scattered remnants of the residents’ belongings. “My state has been hit…

Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal hit back at Republican criticisms of the indictment of Donald Trump that seek to downplay the charges. Trump was indicted Thursday on 34 counts by a grand jury in Manhattan. While none of the counts have been revealed publicly, reporting in recent weeks indicates at least some of them could relate to the alleged falsification of business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump. The payment was made the month before the 2016 election. However, the sheer number of counts potentially indicates…

Democrats at a hearing revolted when Republican Chairman Jim Jordan falsely claimed that the January 6 committee did not afford Republicans the opportunity to “cross-examine one single witness” during its entire tenure. The GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing Thursday that devolved into chaos when Democratic members were not permitted to cross-examine Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, resulting in several minutes of near-brawling. Quite a bit later in the hearing, Jordan decided to revive the argument by claiming that the January 6 committee, which included Republican members Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney,…