MIAMI - The message OMG popped up next to the live webcam broadcast of Abraham Biggs lying motionless on his bed, followed by LOL and "hahahah." But Biggs was not joking. The 19-year-old Broward College student really did commit suicide by taking a ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971. The private fundamentalist ...
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Tina Meier holds two pictures of her daughter, Megan, last year. LOS ANGELES - The grieving mother of a Missouri girl told a jury Wednesday how her daughter hanged herself with a belt after receiving cruel messages on her MySpace account, some of ...
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WAUKEGAN -- It's time to change your bookmark (if you're a Mac) or your favorites (if you're a PC) of Lake County's Web address. The county's new URL address is www.lakecountyil.gov, but it's not just the address that has changed. The entire site has ...
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NEWARK -- Newark High School freshman Natalie White's current ceramics project -- a pink blowfish -- soon might be shown to others in the community. It also could be viewable to anyone with an Internet connection. Art teacher Kathy Lorenz started an ...
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The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act sooner to ...
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MIAMI - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some ...
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