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“Bomb Found Along MLK Parade Route”

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A bomb was found along the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Washington.

The discovery before Monday’s parade for the slain civil rights leader, raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to a white supremacist Nations.

The suspicious backpack was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start, they looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement.

“The confluence of the holiday, the march and the device is inescapable,” said law enforcement special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office. “But we are not at the point where we can draw any particular motive.”

The parade route was changed to avoid the device and a bomb disposal unit disabled it without incident.

Officers also declined to release details of the device, other than to call it a functional bomb that could have caused multiple casualties; and that the “potential for injury and death were clearly present”.

Prejudice, bigotry and hate, is still alive and well people, alive and well!

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“16 Year Old North Carolina Girl Missing”

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This is Phylicia Barnes, a 16-year-old North Carolina girl who disappeared while visiting her 27-year old step-sister in Baltimore, MD. According to Phylicia’s half-sister Deena Barnes, Phylicia was last seen on December 28 at 2:30 pm when she told her sister she was going shopping.

Anyone who had contact with Phylicia in the hours leading up to her disappearance is considered a person of interest, police said. Phylicia’s sister is of college-age and “she had a lot of friends coming in and out,” police say; which makes the potential suspect pool large and difficult to narrow down.

In the past week, authorities have conducted multiple searches for Phylicia in and around the area of the apartment complex where she was last seen, but so far nothing of interest has been found.

Authorities are now hoping that billboards donated by Clear Channel Communications might help bring some new leads in the case. Billboards, which display Phylicia’s photo and vital information, were put up along Interstate 95 from Baltimore to New York City, police said.

Phylicia is a straight “A” student and is due to graduate early from Union Academy in Monroe, North Carolina.

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“Why Are Birds And Fish Dying In Arkansas?”

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Everyone’s talking about the thousands of fish and fowl that are turning up dead in two small towns in Arkansas.

Like a scene out of Hitchcock’s classic movie ‘The Birds,’ 5,000 dead birds literally dropped out of the sky just before midnight on New Year’s Eve in Beebe, Arkansas.

Is this a sign of Biblical proportions?

Others say fireworks could be the culprit.

That’s not all: there’s the 100,000 dead fish that floated to the surface of the Arkansas River near a town called Ozark last week.

Certainly such a massive fish kill couldn’t be the result of hail or fireworks. And even if it was — as some experts call it, “a stress event,” how weird is it that the birds and fish all died in the same geographical area?