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“Elizabeth Edwards Passed Away Today”

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Update: The estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards died in North Carolina today at 10:15 a.m.

Edwards wrote, “The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered…the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious.”

It was during her husband’s second presidential bid in 2006, that doctors told her the cancer had spread to her bones, and could not be cured.

In 2008, her husband admitted he cheated on her and fathered a child outside of their marriage. “She understands what I understand, which is that I am imperfect,” he said in a statement. “I made a very serious mistake.”

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“Jawbone Did Not Belong To Missing Teen”

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Update: The jawbone discovered on a beach in the Caribbean did not belong to Natalee Holloway, officials said today.

Speculation about 18-year-old Holloway’s fate has been fueled by false starts and dead end rumors since she vanished in 2005, but I’m convinced that Joran Van Der Sloot’s theory of leaving her on a beach is not true anyway.

I just feel so sorry for this girl mother’s and her family., having to cope with so much pain and mental anguish after 5 years of Natalie missing.

Van Der Sloot, has long been considered a suspect in her disappearance, but has never been charged.
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“Kwame Kilpatrick Back In The News”

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An attorney representing the family of murder victim Tamara “Strawberry” Greene (both in the top picture above), says a fellow stripper is “very scared” after testifying how she witnessed Greene dancing at a long-rumored party thrown by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (pictured with his wife Carlita) at the Manoogian Mansion.

In a 131-page legal brief unsealed Sunday, the Greene family attorney Norman Yatooma says, dancer Tamara Ruffin testified she was not only at the party, but witnessed Carlita Kilpatrick assault Greene after she gave the mayor a lap dance.

Ruffin testified how the former mayor of Detroit (Kwame Kilpatrick’s) private mansion party was laced with marijuana and cocaine along with uniformed DPD officers providing security for the then mayor.

Ruffin also testified that while Green was performing a lap-dance for Kilpatrick, she heard Carlita Kilpatrick say, “What the fuck is going on here?” “Who is this bitch?” “Bitch, get the fuck off my husband.” 

Ruffin then observed Carlita Kilpatrick and Greene engaged in a fist fight and said that, Greene appeared to be winning the fight until Carlita Kilaptrick struck Greene in the head with an object described as being “a two by four, could have been a baton, could have been a table leg, but it was big.”

As the fight escalated, Ruffin made a hasty exit from the Manoogian Mansion, running a couple of houses down and hiding behind a car.  It was from this location that Ruffin was able to observe the arrival of three Detroit Police cars.

Ruffin is the second self-described eye-witness to come forward in recent months and describe the never-proven party.  Various attempts by the media to reach her have been unsuccessful, but Yatooma denies he has put her up in a safe house pending the outcome of the case.

Tamara Greene was murdered a couple of months later after this party in a drive by shooting, as she sat in a parked car with her boyfriend.

Greene’s family alleges Kilpatrick and other city leaders conspired to block an investigation into Greene’s murder and that Ruffin and another witnesses testimony will provide a possible reason for the cover-up.

Kilpatrick resigned as mayor of Detroit in 2008 and is currently serving time in state prison for violating the terms of his probation in another case.

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“Brawlers Beat Her Young Son To Death”

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It began with a brawl outside of a house party. A woman hit a man, and the man refused to strike back, saying he wouldn’t hit a girl. Instead, he vowed to attack the next male who walked by, even if that person was a random stranger.

That person was 18-year-old, Bobby Tillman (In the framed photo above) and now his mother, (Monique Rivarde) wants justice for the murder of her son.

A group of four party goers decided Tillman was the one, so they swiftly stomped, kicked and punched him to death while dozens of bystanders watched.

“He had nothing to do with anything,” said Maj. Tommy Wheeler of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. “They just decided he’s the one. And they killed him.”

The party Saturday night was supposed to be a small gathering of about 10 friends of a high school girl who lived in this middle-class suburb west of Atlanta. It soon grew to an unruly crowd of about 80 people after word spread by e-mail and text message.

As the crowd grew, the girl’s parents asked the partygoers to leave. But the party just spilled into the street, and neighbors became frustrated by the number of parked cars.

That’s when a fight broke out between two females and two males, and one of the females hit a male, Wheeler said.

Then, in a case of twisted chivalry, the man decided he would not retaliate — but vowed to beat up the next man who passed by, investigators said.

Tillman, who had apparently come for the party but attended a different high school than most of the other young people, unwittingly became the target.

Dozens of witnesses were taken to the sheriff’s office for questioning, and four people were arrested.

Tillman’s mother, Monique Rivarde, couldn’t contain herself Monday during an initial hearing for the suspects, bursting into tears as soon as she set foot in the courtroom and wailing as prosecutors charged each man with fatally beating her son.

The four suspects were identified as Quantez Devonta Mallory, 18; Horace Damon Coleman, 19; Emanuel Benjamin Boykins, 18; and Tracen Lamar Franklin, 19. All were charged with murder Monday.

Isn’t this story sad and tragic?

Where is this rage and hate coming from that these teenagers display today? Parents what is going on in your homes?

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“Steven Hayes Will Be Put To Death”

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For his part in a deadly home invasion which took place in a suburban Connecticut home, where he raped and strangled a woman and her two daughters; then tied them to their beds before dousing the house with gasoline and setting it on fire.

The details of this crime are so horrific, the thought that it happened realistically is equally disturbing.

I’m usually not for the death penalty, but I’m so glad that jurors in a New Haven Superior Court, voted unanimously to send Steven Hayes to death row after deliberating over the span of four days. Judge Jon Blue will impose the sentence on Dec. 2.

“You have been exposed to images of depravity and horror that no human being should have to see,” Blue said in thanking the jurors for their service.

Dr. William Petit, the husband and father of the victims, said the verdict was not about revenge.

“Vengeance belongs to the Lord,” Petit said. “This is about justice. We need to have some rules in a civilized society.”

Hayes will join nine other men on Connecticut’s death row. The state has only executed one man since 1960, so Hayes will likely spend years, if not decades, in prison.