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Antonio Brown establishes GoFundMe for man charged with leaving 3 kids at McDonald’s

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Ex-NFL player Antonio Brown established a GoFundMe for a man charged with leaving his kids at McDonald‘s to go on a job interview.

Before heading to the job interview, Chris Louis left his three children to play at a nearby McDonald’s on March 22.

The McDonald’s location in Augusta, Georgia has a play area inside, according to The Augusta Press.

The struggling father, 24, left his children – ages 1, 6, and 10, in the play area around 4:30 PM before going to a job interview.

However, concerned customers notified McDonald’s employees that the children appeared to be abandoned inside the restaurant.

Sheriff’s deputies rounded up the kids and placed them in a squad car while they searched for their father.

Chris Louis returned to the McDonald’s about 2 hours later, and police arrested him for child deprivation.

He explained that he had walked to the restaurant with his children from his apartment on Young Rd. He didn’t want to make the kids walk back to the apartment while he went to the job interview.

The children’s mother arrived at the restaurant and took custody of the children while Louis was transported to jail.

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The GoFundMe created by Brown raised over $45,000 for the Louis family.

However, social media users said they doubt the family will receive the money from Brown, who has significant cash flow problems himself.

TEN maternity nurses working on the same floor develop brain tumors

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TEN maternity nurses working on the same floor develop brain tumors
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Ten maternity nurses working on the same floor at a Massachusetts hospital have developed aggressive brain tumors.

Staff at Newton-Wellesley Hospital have developed various forms of brain cancer over the past few years.

As many as 10 nurses on the same maternity ward at Newton-Wellesley Hospital have been diagnosed with brain cancer.

One nurse, who asked to remain anonymous, told WBZ-TV: “It’s getting to the point where the number just increases, and you start saying am I crazy thinking this. This can’t just be a coincidence.”

“We want reassurance because this has not been a reassuring past few months for a lot of the staff members,” she said.

“We want to feel safe, the same way we want to make our patients feel safe.”

The hospital claimed that the brain tumors are not the result of “environmental risk” after conducting an extensive investigation since December.

The hospital said in a statement:

“After we became aware of reported brain tumors in individuals who currently or previously had worked in the same area of the hospital, we conducted an extensive investigation…”

The hospital said it interviewed the 10 nurses as part of its investigation.

“Every staff member who came forward was given the opportunity to be interviewed by the Occupational Health and Safety team to evaluate each diagnosis in the context of their individual medical history and risk factors,” the statement read.

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the brain tumors.

Doechii Addresses the ‘Industry Plant’ Rumors: ‘It’s Not An Agenda, It’s God’

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Doechii Addresses the ‘Industry Plant’ Rumors: ‘It’s Not An Agenda, It’s God’
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Grammy-winner Doechii is tired of the rampant rumors that she’s an industry plant. The Tampa-born singer addressed the rumors during her speech for “Woman of the Year” at the Billboard Women in Music ceremony on Saturday.

“I want everybody to hear me clearly when I say that it is not a button, it is our brain. It is not a machine, it is our leadership. It is not a conspiracy, it is our vulnerability, and it is not an agenda, it’s God,” she said, as the audience applauded.

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“My point is that this event was created out of a necessity and that word necessity is important,” she added. “It hits me because my mixtape ‘Alligator Bites Never Heal’ was a space that I created out of necessity, a necessity for a space where I could feel seen, where I could feel heard, and I could connect with other people through shared experiences.”

An “industry plant” is a negative term for people who achieve overnight success with very little effort or hard work.

Industry plants seem to come out of nowhere, and then they are everywhere.

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Doechii’s third mixtape, Alligator Bites Never Heal (2024), peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 chart. It won Best Rap Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.

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Doechii is not a household name and her songs are not well known.

Most of today’s recording artists are considered industry plants because the bar is set so low and anyone can get a record deal.

Doechii is best known for her videos on TikTok, which led to a recording contract with Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records in 2022.

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Viola Davis Admits She Judged Chadwick Boseman Too Harshly on Film Set

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Viola Davis admitted she was too quick to judge ailing actor Chadwick Boseman on the set of their film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

In an interview with The Times, the EGOT winner admitted she was critical of the extra attention Boseman received on the set.

Davis said she wouldn’t have been so judgmental if she’d known Boseman was dying of cancer.

During breaks in filming, Davis saw Boseman’s girlfriend and make-up artist rubbing his back and playing meditative music. She said she was a bit critical of the pampering he received.

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“There was a part of me that was a little judgmental — why do you need all that? Little did I know that they were doing it because he was dying,” she said.

Boseman died of colon cancer at age 43 on August 28, 2020, about a year after the film wrapped.

Davis, 59, felt guilt-ridden because she judged him so harshly and she believed that he was getting special attention on the set.

Boseman battled colon cancer for 4 years and continued to work until he succumbed to the disease.

Ed O’Neill’s Daughter Clarifies Her Race. ‘I am 25% Black’

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Ed O’Neill’s Daughter Clarifies Her Race. ‘I am 25% Black’
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Fans of “Modern Family” star Ed O’Neill were surprised to learn that he had a mixed race daughter named Claire.

Last week, Claire shared a TikTok video of herself lip-syncing to Tupac Shakur’s “Hit Em Up” when her famous dad made a cameo in the video.

“This was his idea,” Claire captioned the video.

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Americans quickly assumed she was Black because of her ambiguous ethnicity. They lump any ethnicity in with the Black race when the person’s race is not obvious.

As the video went viral, Claire finally addressed the incorrect statements about her race and her age.

“Okay, let me clear things up for everyone: I’m 18 not 28. I am a surrogate baby (I’m not biologically related to my mom),” Claire said.

She continued, “I am 25% Black because the egg donor is 50%. My dad’s only been married once.”

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Ed’s wife, actress Catherine Rusoff is Caucasian. Fans were quick to assume that she was Black too, or Ed stepped out on his wife, or he was married to another woman before her.

Ed, 78, and Catherine share another daughter, Sophia, 26.

Ed’s Black fans were disappointed that they can’t claim Claire as one of them.

One person wrote: “It’s sad that she felt the need to give all of those personal details. It will just become gossip fodder.”

Another person wrote: “First of all, she looks nowhere close to 28. Secondly, she’s only 25% Black? Wonder why they used a biracial donor.”

“I’m more confused than I was beforehand,” a third person commented.

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Ed O’Neill is best known for his role as long-suffering shoe salesman Al Bundy who is married to an insufferable housewife (Katey Sagal) on the TV sitcom “Married… with Children” (1987–1997).

Police arrest woman who placed 911 call that led to Young Scooter’s death

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Atlanta police arrested a woman who placed a 911 call that led to the death of aspiring rapper Kenneth Edward Bailey, aka Young Scooter.

Bailey, 39, died on Friday, March 28, after suffering a serious leg injury while running from a massive SWAT team response to the 911 call.

Demetria Spence, 31, was arrested a day after she claimed she was a victim in the case. Police say Spence, aka Demi Blanco, placed a Swatting call that led to Bailey’s death.

Spence was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Tuesday. She is charged with transmitting a false public alarm.

911 audio, obtained by FOX 5, described a woman bleeding and being beaten outside a house in which a child was present, and shots fired. “He’s beating her bloody. He’s dragging her back in the house,” the caller said.

The woman identified herself as the “neighborhood watch”, but her call was transferred to the Atlanta 911 center from another county.

Officers responded to a home on the 200 block of William Nye Drive in southeast Atlanta, and knocked on the front door of the residence. A man opened the door and quickly slammed it shut.

While police established a perimeter outside the house, two men fled out the back door of the home and jumped over 2 fences.

One man returned to the house, but Bailey suffered a serious injury to his leg while jumping over a wooden fence.

Police found him bleeding profusely from his leg and rushed him to Grady hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Rumors spread online that Bailey died during a shootout with Atlanta police.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office released the preliminary cause of death for Bailey. The report stated he died from a serious leg wound, not a gunshot.

On Tuesday, Spence claimed she was the victim being beaten. “I was physically abused. So I called to protect myself,” Spence said.

“In the narrative it looks like I was trying to set this man up,” Spence said. “I never had any intentions to get anybody hurt. I was the one that was getting hurt.”

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‘Baddies’ cast member Demi Blanco identified as woman who ‘Swatted’ Young Scooter’s home

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‘Baddies’ cast member Demi Blanco identified as woman who ‘Swatted’ Young Scooter’s home
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The woman who made the 911 “Swatting” call that led to rapper Young Scooter‘s death has been identified as “Baddies” cast member Demi Blanco.

Blanco went live on Instagram Tuesday, after several influencers identified her as the person who placed the 911 call that sent SWAT members to Young Scooter’s home on Friday, March 28.

Blanco allegedly called 911, saying 7 men ran a sex trafficking ring out of a home in southeast Atlanta. She claimed that a woman was being beaten bloody outside and dragged inside the house.

When police knocked on the front door, the aspiring rapper ran from the house and jumped over fences, resulting in a serious leg injury that led to his death.

Now Blanco claims she is being treated unfairly by social media users angry over Scooter’s death because they didn’t know the whole side of the story.

Demi claims she called 911 to “protect herself” – indicating that she was the woman being beaten.

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Atlanta Police Department offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to Blanco’s capture.

Since Blanco made a Swatting call to 911, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to assist the APD in catching her.

In a twist in the case, rapper Young Thug claimed he saw the autopsy report and Scooter – whom he referred to as “street” – was shot.

Thug is blaming APD gang investigator Marissa Viverito for allegedly covering up the details of Scooter’s death.

“Biggest liar in the DA office,” he tweeted on Tuesday.

The medical examiner’s office released a statement on Tuesday denying the rumor that Scooter was shot.

The report stated Young Scooter cut his leg on a wooden fence. The injury severed his femoral artery (the main artery in the leg) and he bled out.

Anthony Edwards Files New Paternity Lawsuit Against Mother of His Son

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NBA star Anthony Edwards has filed a paternity case against the mother of his only son. The new suit comes as he continues to battle his other ex, Ayesha Howard, over child support for their infant daughter.

The Minnesota Timberwolves star filed a petition on March 21, obtained by In Touch, revealing he is the father of a boy born to Alexandria Desroches, aka Ally D.

Ally D has been vocal on social media that Anthony is not in their son Amir’s life.

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In the paperwork. Anthony, 23, confirmed he fathered Amir with Alexandria who currently lives in New York. He said Amir was conceived and born in Georgia. Family court judges in Georgia are more lenient with child support that favors high-value men.

Anthony’s lawyer wrote in the paperwork that “all interactions between [Anthony] and [Alexandria] took place in Georgia,” In Touch reported exclusively.

Anthony claimed Alexandria did not move to New York until “a few months” after the child was born in Georgia.

He asked the court to establish child support and to issue an order establishing him as the legal father.

In addition to Amir, Anthony is father to daughters Aris, Aubri, and Aislynn by as many women.

Atlanta Police Offer $5K Reward for Identity of Woman Who ‘Swatted’ Young Scooter (Video)

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Atlanta Police Offer $5K Reward for Identity of Woman Who ‘Swatted’ Young Scooter (Video)
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A $5,000 reward is being offered for the identity of a woman who ‘Swatted’ rapper Young Scooter before he died from a freak accident.

Young Scooter, real name Kenneth Bailey, died while running from police on Friday, March 28, in southeast Atlanta.

“You guys need to hurry and get here!” the woman told a 911 dispatcher in a Swatting phone call that led to Scooter’s untimely death.

Swatting means making a false call to police to provoke a SWAT team response to a home or business.

The woman told the 911 dispatcher that she was the “neighborhood watch”. However, the woman called 911 from a different county, and the call was transferred to the 911 center in Atlanta.

The story that the woman told the dispatcher was very detailed and unbelievable. She described a house where “pimps” ran a sex trafficking operation. She said the men had guns and were shooting. She described one man dragging a naked bleeding woman inside the house. She also said there was a child in the house.

The caller tried to make the situation sound as dangerous as possible in order to trigger a large and forceful SWAT response.

Police said the phone that the woman used was a 911-only phone. Her phone probably didn’t have a SIM card inside and could not be traced back to her.

Police responding to the 911 call knocked on the door of a single family home on a quiet cul de sac in southeast Atlanta.

“A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers,” said Lt. Andrew Smith, commander of Atlanta’s homicide unit.

As police set up a perimeter outside, Scooter, 39, and another man fled out the back door of the house. The other man returned to the house, but Scooter jumped over fences and suffered a severe injury to his leg.

Somehow he severed the femoral artery (the main artery) in his leg and he bled out quickly.

“He appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg,” Lt. Smith told reporters. “Officers rendered aid and he was transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.”

A popular YouTuber identified the 911 caller as a former reality TV contestant who dated the second man in the house.

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Marvin Sapp received ‘death threats’ after asking church members for $40K

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Bishop Marvin Sapp received death threats after a resurfaced video shows him asking church members to donate $40,000.

In the video, the famed gospel singer told ushers to close the church doors before asking his 1,000 church members for $20 donations. He also asked viewers at home to donate $20,000.

The incident happened during his sermon at the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World annual summer convention in 2024. But the video resurfaced on social media last week.

Sapp said his goal was to raise $40,000 for the church, but he didn’t specify why.

In an appearance on Rickie Smiley’s morning show, Sapp explained that he’s receiving “death threats” and his staffers fear for their lives.

“People have called my church and cussed me out. My staff are afraid because I’ve received death threats,” said Sapp. “People have come to our campus. They have come to my church to try to cause problems…”

“This was a service that happened last August,” he said. “People took issue with me saying shut the doors. Understand I never said lock the doors,” he continued. “Shutting doors means people still have the ability to go in and out.”

In a previous statement on Facebook, Sapp said he asked ushers to close the doors for the safety of his parishioners.

Sapp also admitted that he was more “assertive” than he should’ve been under the circumstances.

Pastor John Gray III, who has his own share of controversies, defended Sapp’s fundraising efforts.

“I’ve seen a lot worse donation requests in other churches,” Gray told TMZ. He suggested that a church’s fundraising efforts may look questionable to outsiders.

Gray praised his own church for the “reverse offering” method, where congregants are allowed to take what they need from the offering plate to meet their financial needs.

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