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Guy Rivera, 34, was recently charged with murder and gun possession after he fatally shot NYPD officer, Jonathan Diller, in a traffic stop. The ex-con, who was wounded in the exchange, was arraigned via video from the hospital on charges of murder of a police officer, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Rivera…

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Louis Gosset Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the influential TV miniseries “Roots,” has died at 87 years old. His first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. A statement from the family…

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Joseph Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died at 82 years old. According to a statement from his family, Lieberman died following complications from a fall. His family said in a statement, “Former United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman died this afternoon,…

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at 98 years old. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the United States in the 1980s, died at his home in Key West, Florida,…

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Pepperdine University has inaugurated the “Our Four Angels Endowed Scholarship” in memory of four students who died in a tragic accident on the Pacific Coast Highway in California last October. The new scholarship hopes to support students at Seaver College, the Christian institution’s undergraduate school. In a statement, the university said that the scholarship was…

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A man who set the Guinness World Record for living the longest time in an iron lung spoke about the love of God his family showed him before his death at 78. For over 70 years, Paul Alexander had been confined to the larger cylindrical mechanical ventilator that used air pressure to help him breathe…

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Samantha Miller, a woman who was killed on her wedding day at Folly Beach, never expected “til death do us part” to come so soon. Unfortunately, a tragedy took her from this world only hours after she spoke her vows. Now, her heartbroken husband, Aric Hutchinson, is speaking out about the horrible incident that robbed…

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Giovani Bernard, a former running back for the Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, recently shared the tragic news that his newborn son has passed away. Bernard took to his Instagram saying that he and his wife, Chloe, sadly lost their newborn son, Gabriel, who was born on February, 8th. “You were loved from the…

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Jean Graham Ford, the only remaining sibling of the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, passed away on February 29, 2024, at the age of 99, according to her family. Ford was Graham’s youngest sister. “We will miss her in this life but look forward to eternity together in the presence of our Savior, Jesus Christ the…

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A wrestler and theology major at a private Christian university in Kentucky has allegedly been killed by another university student and fellow wrestler, according to authorities. Eighteen-year-old Josiah Kilman was pronounced dead at Taylor Regional Hospital after police officers reported to Campbellsville University in central Kentucky. He was transported to the Kentucky State Examiner’s Office…

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