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Suicide On Facebook Live Moore Dies
Coach Gets 300th Win
A Miami teenager commit- ted suicide, and is said to have used the Facebook Live video streaming service to broadcast it online.
The Florida Department of Children & Families con- firmed that 14-year-old Nakia Venant took her life overnight Sunday by hanging herself in the bathroom of her foster parents' home.
According to Miami Her- ald, Venant's Facebook Live video was two-hours long and at one point showed the teen using a scarf to make a homemade noose.
The outlet reported that Venant's video abruptly ended, but friends of the eighth grader said her suicide played out online.
Authorities tried to save Venant, but due to a series of mishaps they weren't able to reach the teen in time.
Mary Tyler Moore died Wednesday.
Nakia Vanant hung her- self in the bathroom. Mary Tyler Moore, the
Moore Show,” has died. CBS reported that a friend She turned 80 on Dec. 29. of Venant's alerted Miami- She has battled Type 1 diabetes Dade police when she saw since she was diagnosed with it the video and officers at age 33. She also underwent
showed up to her house. The brain surgery in 2011. teen then gave officers an- Yesterday, beloved icon, other address to go to, but it Mary Tyler Moore, passed was the wrong one. awayattheageof80inthe
Residents at the second company of friends and her home gave police the correct loving husband of over 33 address to Venant's foster years, Dr. S. Robert Levine.
USF Women’s Head Coach Jose’ Fernandez with the cheerleaders after the game. (Photo by Toby Scott of Chow & Scott Photography)
parents. Poll: Trump
University of South Florida Women’s Basketball team is having another great year and is currently 15-2. A lot of this is happening be- cause of the strong coaching
from Jose’ Fernandez. In his 17th year with the Bulls, last Tuesday night was spe- cial as he captured his 300th win after a 70-49 win over Memphis.
star of sitcom “The Mary Tyler
Act Of Kindness:
Presidency Rating ‘The Lowest In History’
President Trump has been signing bills that send the coun- try backwards. Large protests are expected in opposition to an executive order which advanced the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.
Trio Leaves Waitress $450 Tip On $72 Bill
A black Wash- ington, D.C., waitress re- ceived a pleasant surprise Monday while working her usual shift at Busboys and Poets, a Wash- ington restau- rant that has its own distinct so- cial-justice mis- sion, the Washington Post reports.
Rosalynd Harris went into work still in a great mood from Saturday’s Women’s March on Wash- ington. The optimism of her customers over the weekend had been contagious, and so she was particularly upbeat as she got to a table of three white men in her section around midmorning Mon- day.
According to the Post, they all chatted warmly, with the men revealing that they were from west Texas. One man
Rosalynd Harris was given a $450 tip. The patrons wrote words of kindness on the receipt.
President Trump is the first elected president in Gallup’s polling history to receive an initial job approval rating below the ma- jority level.
He starts his term in office with 45% of Americans ap- proving of the way he is han- dling his new job, 45% disapproving and 10% yet to form an opinion.
Trump now holds the record for the lowest initial job approval rating as well as the highest initial disapproval rat- ing in Gallup surveys dating back to Dwight D. Eisen- hower.
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was a dentist and compli- mented her on her smile. But what Harris never expected was for them to leave her a $450 tip on their $72.60 bill, attached to a personal note.
“We may come from dif- ferent cultures and may dis- agree on certain issues, but if everyone would share their smile and kindness like your beautiful smile, our country will come together as one people,” the note read. “Not race. Not gender. Just Amer- ican.” The note ended with, “God Bless!”
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