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© Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The San Francisco Police Officers Association unloaded on Colin Kaepernick.

© Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The San Francisco Police Officers Association unloaded on Colin Kaepernick.

The San Francisco Police Officers Association is unhappy with the recent comments Colin Kaepernick made about law enforcement corruption, and the organization is demanding an apology.

In a letter addressed to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and 49ers president and CEO Jed York, SFPOA president Martin Halloran ripped Kaepernick for his “foolish statement” about the law enforcement profess

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“Law & Order: SVU” plans to put its spin on a hot button issue as it preps an episode about domestic violence in the NFL.

Producers for the crime drama love to rip their stories from the headlines, and its audience love them to be at least a little messy. November sweeps this year is going to be the perfect time to play that up! It seems that “SVU” writers have drawn some inspiration from Ray Rice’s domestic violence scandal.

NBC has just announced that Meagan Good and Chad Coleman (you ma

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Former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal at the Reebok Classic Breakout Classic Rap Roundtable at Philadelphia University July 9, 2014
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The former NBA center is making some major career changes since retiring. 

Can you imagine getting pulled over by a 7-foot-1 NBA basketball player-turned-police officer? Well, if you’re living in the city of Doral, Fla., that could happen. According to the Miami Herald, Shaquille O’Neal wants to go from the hardwood to protecting an

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Marissa Alexander could be sent to prison for a minimum of 60 years if she is found guilty of three counts of aggravated assault at her second trial in Jacksonville in July, after state prosecutors confirmed they would seek for the sentences to be served consecutively.

 

Activists from the Free Marissa Now advocacy group, which has campaigned for the release of Alexander, 33, and raised money for her legal costs, described the move as a “stunning abuse of power” by the state attorney, Angela Co

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A public school in Kansas prohibited a student from handing out fliers for 'See You at the Pole.' (See You at the Pole, Facebook)
An Arizona group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a suburban Kansas City middle school of violating a student's First Amendment rights by prohibiting the student from handing out fliers promoting a prayer event.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that advocates for religious rights, contends a counselor
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NBC Cancels ‘Law & Order’

By BRIAN STELTER AND BILL CARTER

14lawandorder-blogSpan.jpgWill Hart/NBCA scene from an episode of “Law & Order” filmed in February.

NBC confirmed Friday that it had canceled the original “Law & Order,” bringing an end to a 20-year-old television drama that jump-started an era of television production in New York City.

“Law & Order” was on the verge of becoming the longest-running drama in prime-time television history, surpassing “Gunsmoke.” But it appears that the “Law & Order” executive producer, Dick Wolf, has settle

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