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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall The daughter of a police brutality victim died Saturday morning after suffering from a heart attack and sustaining some brain damage, according to a report. Sources told The New York Daily News of Erica Garner’s, the daughter of Eric Garner, death early Saturday morning, the outlet reported. Garner was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Gabrielle Okun A wild boar tragically killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent and two others on Christmas Day after a truck collided with the animal in southwest Texas. A truck struck the wild hog, causing a Ford Expedition to swerve on the highway and crash into a Mercedes, resulting in three…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Nick Givas Officials caught an Arizona man impersonating a police officer last week when he began stopping and searching people at random, even handcuffing one of them. The Tucson Police Department posted a video of one of the incidents on Facebook Wednesday and said they responded to a “suspicious activity call” Dec. 19, when…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports. The Bundys’ case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: A few years ago, some of my relatives got the quintessential present for Christmas: a roly-poly, purebred puppy. The puppy was adorable and gained my relatives a lot of extra visitors that holiday season, including yours truly. But while my relatives enjoyed both the visitors and the puppy, they also took…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr An Iowa Planned Parenthood clinic will close its doors Friday after government defunding of the organization forced it to shut down and discontinue operations. “After nearly two decades in the Quad Cities, on Friday, December 29, 2017, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland will officially close their Bettendorf location,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr A man caught with four preserved fetuses in his garage is heading to trial in January to face charges of defrauding customers. Arthur Rathburn will face trial in court regarding accusations that he fraudulently sold diseased adult body parts to his customers, to which he has pleaded not…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Tim Pearce A city in Colorado is considering how to deal with an exploding urban population of deer that are wreaking havoc on the community, destroying lawns and causing wrecks, Colorado’s The Gazette reports. About 20 deer live in every square mile of southwest Colorado Springs, about ten times more than what…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Grace Carr The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing. The “Problem of Whiteness course — part of the African Cultural Studies program — makes its mission to help students “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Amber Randall A century-old Confederate statue had its “hands” cut off and its rifle removed in act of vandalism that may cost approximately $200,000 to fix. The Georgia statue, located in the Myrtle Hill Cemetery, had to be taken down from its pedestal in light of the damages to it, ABC News…