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Shawn Kemp, who was one of the most popular athletes in Seattle in the 1990s when he played for the Sonics, was sentenced Friday in Pierce County Superior Court to 30 days of electronic home monitoring for second-degree assault. Kemp must submit to home monitoring within two weeks and will also serve one year of community custody and complete 240 hours of community service. Under state sentencing guidelines for second-degree assault, Kemp faced a standard range between three and nine months in jail. Judge Michael Schwartz found that the circumstances surrounding the crime warranted an “exceptional sentence” downward, allowing Kemp...

DC Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs, a Biden appointee, released two of the ‘teens’ who attacked former DOGE member Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls.” Earlier this month, 19-year-old Edward Coristine was severely beaten in DC after he jumped into action to save his significant other’s life. Trump posted a photo of Coristine after he was beaten bloody by the mob of teens. The President has since federalized DC to crack down on crime. A police report revealed more details about Edward Coristine’s heroic actions defending his girlfriend from a pack of 10 teens during an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning....

Orest Schur will serve over half a century in jail. Schur was a 27-year-old sergeant in the U.S. Space Force when the incident happened in July 2023. He and his wife lived in Aurora, Colorado, where he worked as a signals intelligence analyst at Buckley Space Force Base. Before transferring to the Space Force, Schur served two tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army, earning 14 service medals in the process. On July 5, 2023 around 11 p.m., he woke up to the sound of the alarm on his wife's Hyundai Elantra. He grabbed his pistol and went outside, where...

Black vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard often describe visiting the island in August as a kind of family reunion. If your family happens to include Michelle Obama, that is. “This is a special place for us, because, as you all know, this is where we come to enjoy being us,” Ms. Obama said Saturday afternoon at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, where she joined her older brother, Craig Robinson, for a live recording of their podcast, “IMO,” which she likened to a kitchen table. The brother-sister duo were speaking with the actress Natasha Rothwell, whom they repeatedly referred to...

The George Floyd case shows how America traded the rule of law for the rule of narrative—leaving Derek Chauvin to serve the sentence the storyline demanded. I missed Rachel K. Paulose’s column about George Floyd—sorry, Saint George Floyd—when it appeared in The Spectator World at the end of May. Knowing of my interest in the case, a public-spirited individual brought the column to my attention. I thought it was an appalling regurgitation of the established, but erroneous, narrative about the larcenous, drug-and-woman-abusing miscreant George Floyd and the former police officer primarily involved in his arrest. Paulose is worried that President...

A fourth person has been busted in connection with the vicious brawl in Cincinnati that left two people seriously injured, as new video shows the victims lobbing racial slurs at their attackers moments before the beatdown. Dominique Kittle, 37, was arrested around 6:20 p.m. Friday, nearly a week after he allegedly pummeled a Russian woman and an unidentified man, police announced. Kittle was charged with felonious assault and aggravated riot. His bond was set at $150,000.

Pickens County School District says disciplinary action is being weighed after video surfaces from school-sponsored football retreat. ============================================================= Authorities in the Upstate region of South Carolina are investigating an alleged assault involving high school football players during a school-sponsored retreat at Presbyterian College earlier this month, according to an incident report provided to FITSNews. The alleged attack occurred around 10:30 p.m. EDT on July 7, 2025 and involved students from D.W. Daniel High School in Pickens County, who the district says are all minors. According to the campus police report — shared with FITSNews by community activist @Bossy_Leah — a...

The family of one of the Cincinnati brawlers claimed the only reason the fight has garnered so much attention was because the person punched in the face is a white woman.