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Week In Review

Ohio man who held three women captive hangs himself

September 9, 2013

The Cleveland man serving a life sentence for kidnapping three women and raping them in his home for a decade hanged himself in his prison cell, officials said Wednesday in another startling twist in the case that horrified and transfixed the city.

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NAACP-KKK meeting in Wyo. believed to be a first

September 9, 2013

A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said. Last Saturday’s meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer…

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Some school districts quit healthier lunch program

August 31, 2013

After just one year, some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed with whole grains, fruits and vegetables that the cafeterias were losing money.

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US judge says NYPD stop frisk violates rights

August 18, 2013

The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stinging rebuke…

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US to reform mandatory drug sentencing

August 18, 2013

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a major shift in how the federal government plans to prosecute nonviolent criminals involved in drug crimes, with the aim of easing overcrowding in the nation’s prisons.  

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Jazz keyboardist George Duke dies at 67

August 11, 2013

A representative says Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer George Duke, whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul, has died. He was 67. The representative said Duke died Monday night in Los Angeles. He was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

 

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