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Miami Mom Beats Up Her Daughter’s Rival
Arkansas Will Execute 8
People In 11 Days Before
MIAMI, FL —- A Miami mother showed up at Carol City Senior High School in order to beat up her daughter’s rival on Monday.
According to police, the inci- dent began with a fight that broke out between Ernstlatta LaFrance’s daughter and a group of other girls at the Miami-Dade County Fair & Ex- position.
On Monday, LaFrance, her partner, Erlisa Evans, and LaFrance’s daughter came to the high school during dis- missal in order to confront the teenage rival. LaFrance re- portedly knocked the teen’s cell phone out of her hands and hit her multiple times.
Then, when the victim came to LaFrance’s home to get her cell phone back, LaFrance “took a axe and struck the victim’s right hand and the vehicle,” according to
Lethal Injection Drug Expires
Arkansas is about to make history as they will become the first state to ever execute eight people in less than two weeks.
The state’s supply of mida- zolam, one of three drugs used in lethal injections, is set to expire in April.
Midazolam is the drug that is supposed to numb the pris- oner’s body so they won’t feel pain. But reports have stated that result is not always guar- anteed.
Worried that they may not be able to obtain more in the future, Governor Asa Hutchinson is ordering that the next eight executions they had scheduled take place be- fore the sedative becomes useless.
So between April 17 and
Miami mom, Ernstlatta LaFrance and her daughter.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchin- son is a former U. S. Attorney.
April 27, the state will execute eight men who have been on death row for decades for murder. On some days there will be double executions.
an officer’s report of the inci- dent.
Evans then came out of the house and fired three shots in the air.
According to authorities, LaFrance also took to Face- book to post video of the fight “and warned those messing with her daughter to beware.”
The victim’s middle finger
was reportedly broken and her car was destroyed by an axe due to LaFrance and Evans’ actions. LaFrance is now fac- ing charges including strong- armed robbery, child abuse and aggravated battery; Evans is facing charges including ag- gravated assault with a deadly weapon and firing a gun in public.
‘Dear White People’ Signs Posted Around University Campus
The signs were posted around the campus of North Carolina State University.
Vogue Cover Model Commits Suicide In Dorm
BANGLEADESH —- Raudha Athif, a 21-year- old Maldivian model who gained fame by gracing the cover of Vogue India, was found by her friends hanging from a ceiling fan in her dorm room on Wednesday (March 29).
Officials say that Athif, who was a second-year stu- dent at Islami Bank Medical College in Bangladesh, is be- lieve to have committed sui- cide. A friend of the deceased’s cut the scarf from which the model was hanging
Raudha Athif, 21, committed suicide.
from and took Athif down.
Athif’s Vogue India cover was on newsstands in Octo- ber 2016, where she and sev- eral other models posed for a “Beauty In Diversity” shoot. She gained notoriety in 2014, after being photographed emerging from the ocean for a photo titled ‘Maldivian Girl With Aqua Blue Eyes,’ shot by photographer Sotti.
However, her dream was always to be a doctor. “Mod- elling is a hobby rather than a career for me,” she said in a Q&A for the “Beauty In Di- versity” shoot.
RALEIGH, NC — A number of “Dear White People” signs were posted on the campus of North Carolina State Univer- sity in Raleigh, North Car- olina, Thursday that decry and criticize white people.
One read, “Dear White Peo- ple... Black people can’t be racist. Prejudice [sic], yes, but not racist. Racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race. Black people can’t be racist since we don’t stand to benefit from such a system.”
Others read, “Dear White People... There is no such thing as ‘colorblind.’ You are perpetuation racism and white supremacy” and “Dear White People... I am here to
burst your post-racial bub- ble...”
The sign postings were a project by the school’s Union Activities Board for “Diversity Education Week.” A “special message” from the group’s president noted that the signs were quotations from the 2014 movie “Dear White Peo- ple.”
Campus police allegedly re- moved one of the signs — “Dear White People...have you read the 13th Amend- ment?” — after someone wrote in pencil underneath, “Have you read the 2th [sic]?” the Tab reported, adding that it was considered an indirect threat.
Homeless Trio Arrested For Atlanta Highway Fire That Caused It To Collapse
ATLANTA, GA — A home- less man and 2 others were arrested on Friday for setting the fire that led to the col- lapse of Atlanta’s Interstate 85 bridge.
The Atlanta Journal-Con- sitution reports Basil Eleby, 39, was charged with first-de- gree arson and criminal dam- age to property. Sophia Bruner and Barry Thomas were also arrested and charged with criminal trespass in connection to the fire.
Eleby, 39, a homeless man was smoking crack cocaine at the time, a court document indicated Saturday.
Eleby, who has a string of previous drug and assault ar- rests, according to Fulton
Basil Eleby was arrested and charged with arson; he appeared in court on Saturday.
County jail records, was held on $200,000 bond.
There were no deaths or in- juries in the explosion and fire, but the bridge collapse Thursday severed the vital roadway that runs north-
south through downtown At- lanta.
The interstate carries 250,000 vehicles daily, Geor- gia transportation commis- sioner Russell McMurry told USA TODAY.
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