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First Two of Three Black Inmate Executions Carried out within An Hour of Each Other

The death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Within an hour, Georgia, then Missouri carried out the nation’s first executions since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April raised new concerns about capital punishment. Neither execution had any noticeable complications. Another execution, the third in a 24-hour span, […]

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Senate OKs First Openly Gay Black Man & A Gay Black Woman to Federal Bench

Darrin Gayles and Staci Yandle. (Courtesy Photo) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate for the first time confirmed an openly gay Black man to a top-level federal judgeship on Tuesday, voting 98-0 to make Darrin Gayles a district court judge in Florida. By 52-44, senators endorsed another of President Barack Obama’s nominees, approving Staci Yandle, an […]

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Tracy Morgan Now in Fair Condition after Crash

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan has been upgraded to fair condition following the New Jersey highway crash that badly injured him and killed one of his friends, his spokesman said Monday. Comedian Tracy Morgan. (Photo Courtesy:Twitter) “His personality is certainly starting to come back as well,” spokesman Lewis Kay said. […]

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Tracy Morgan in Intensive Care after 6 Car Crash

(Update-2- 5/7/2014) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured Saturday after a tractor-trailer rammed into his chauffeured limousine bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash that left one member of his entourage dead and two others seriously hurt, authorities said. A truck driver from Georgia was charged with death by […]

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