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Former College Athlete Formulates Sports Drink
Former U. N. Boss Facing Bribery Charge Can’t Afford Lawyer
MANHATTAN, NY --- Ac- cording to the New York Daily News, the former UN General Assembly president charged in a $1.3 million bribery scheme doesn’t have money for a lawyer, court proceedings Monday afternoon revealed.
John Ashe — arrested in Oc- tober for allegedly failing to claim or pay income taxes on payoffs he pocketed in 2013 and 2014 — will now be repre- sented by a court-appointed lawyer, Jeremy Schneider, Manhattan Federal Judge Ver- non Broderick decided.
Ashe, who had also worked as the UN ambassador for An- tigua and Barbuda, asked for and accepted bribes since 2011, Manhattan federal prosecutors allege.
Ashe, in turn, “agreed to and did perform official actions for businesspeople who were seek- ing benefits from the UN and Antigua,” Bharara’s office has said.
Former President of the U.N. General Assembly John Ashe, who had also worked as the UN ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda, asked for and ac- cepted bribes since 2011, Man- hattan federal prosecutors allege.
Broderick also stated sev- eral times that the disgraced diplomat had yet to pay his just-replaced lawyer Herve Gouraige and had "a substan- tial outstanding bill.”
N. Y Woman Suing City After Spending More Than 2 Years In Solitary At Rikers
After Career Ended
Lamar Letts displays his product.
Candie Hailey said she was abused while in custody.
BRONX, N. Y. -- A 32-year- old Bronx woman who spent more than two years in solitary confinement at Rikers Island is suing the city for $10 million in a lawsuit that claims she was sexually and physically abused by guards during her stay.
Candie Hailey was placed in solitary confinement while awaiting trial on charges of at- tempted murder of an infant in 2012. She was later cleared. Hailey says the abuse led her to attempt suicide “more than 100 times,” describing the ways in which she would try to end her life with objects like broken light bulbs and plastic cups.
BOSTON, MA — Northeast- ern University’s 4th year stu- dent, Lamar Letts, has formulated a sports drink called Hylux that offers the best alternative to traditional sports drinks: a vitamin en- hanced water that is low calo- rie, low sugar, and high nutrient drink. Hylux recently launched a Kickstarter project and in a short time, Letts has managed to raise more than $13,000. Before this, Letts was awarded a $10,000 grant from IDEA, Northeastern Uni- versity’s venture accelerator.
The drink has received posi- tive reviews.
Apart from making his drink a success among athletes, Lamar Letts also has more objectives to fulfill with this drink. He plans to use 3% of
the proceeds from the sale of Hylux to provide clean water in underdeveloped countries.
Lamar Letts was a former athlete, but due to an unex- pected heart injury, he had to give up his career as a track athlete. Being advised by his doctor to take good care of his diet, Lamar had to start dilut- ing his sports drinks with water to reduce the sugar and calorie content. This is where the idea of having a low sugar and low calorie sports drink came from, and Lamar Letts created Hylux in his freshman year of college.
Hylux hit the market in 2014 and is distributed in gyms and health clubs in New York and Boston.
More information about Hylux go to www.drinkhy- lux.com.
Family Members Of S. C. Church Massacre Upset By Donation Amounts
LAPD Officers Help Deliver Baby On Mother’s Day
Memphis HS Sophomore Gets Perfect ACT Score
A 15-year-old high school sophomore got a perfect score on the ACT exam, reports Blavity.com.
Dwight Moore, a student at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Tenn., scored a 36 out of 36 on the college-entrance exam, put- ting him in rare company: Less than 1 percent of the 1.9 mil- lion test takers received a per- fect score in 2015.
His school put out a state- ment congratulating him, reading in part:
The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science. Each test is scored on a scale of 1–36, and a student's composite score is the average of the four test scores. Some students also take the optional ACT writing test, but the score for that test is reported separately and is not included within the ACT Composite score.
“Please join me in congratu- lating sophomore Dwight
Dwight Moore, 15, thought it was a mistake.
Moore for his perfect com- posite score of 36 on the ACT,” said CBHS principal Chris Fay. “Dwight is an incredibly polite and humble young man, who is respected by both his peers and teachers. He is a model student at CBHS.”
Moore reportedly said that he thought the score was a mistake when he first saw it.
LOS ANGELES, CA --- Los Angeles Police Officers Maraea Toomalatai and Bria Ar- mendariz probably thought they were doing a routine stop when they pulled over a speed- ing car early Sunday morning. But when they found mom-to- be Sasha Murphy inside, in active labor, they knew this was no ordinary situation.
With some quick thinking, the officers helped deliver a healthy baby right inside the vehicle. A thankful mom and dad named the baby boy, Messiah Tind- ley.
According to the L. A. Times, the officers instructed the fa- ther, Mohammed Tindley, to follow them, giving the couple a police escort to Dignity Health California Medical Center.
When they arrived at the hos- pital, one officer alerted staff while the other assisted Mur- phy, who gave birth to a healthy baby boy, police said.
Messiah Tindley was born inside the vehicle escorted by the officers, the LAPD said.
The department later com- mended the officers, who each have three years of service with the LAPD, for jumping right into action and handling the sensitive situation appropri- ately.
It will be a year on June 17th that a lone gunman massacred 9 members of the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The families of the nine people killed in the mass shooting in- side a Charleston, S.C., church last year aren't pleased with the distribution of donations the church has received since the June 17 shooting.
The wife of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor who was among those killed in the massacre, has not received any of the donation proceeds, according to her at- torney.
"They've not contacted me at all," her attorney, South Car- olina state Sen. Gerald Mal- loy, told the Post and Courier.
According to the Post and Courier, the church has given the families of the victims some $1.5 million that it's received and is keeping around $1.8 million, with plans to make long-needed repairs to the church. The church also plans to create an endowment, a me- morial and scholarships, and $78,000 will go to the
Charleston Hope Fund.
Since many who donated did-
n't specify where their dona- tions should go, church leaders decided how the money would be divided.
"It's just sad how the church continues to disrespect the families," the Rev. Sharon Risher, who lost her 70-year- old mother, Ethel Lance, in the shooting, told the newspa- per.
Family members of the vic- tims told the Post and Courier that they had received certified letters with checks from the church.
"This sum represents the dis- tribution to you of a percentage of the total amount of funds, calculated upon the basis of the number of immediate family members of the Emanuel 9 vic- tims and survivors," the form letter said.
The letters didn't mention how much money the church had received or how the dona- tions would be divided among the survivors, their families and the church.
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