Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas Take Gold and Silver at World Championships

Simone Biles came to the World Championships without a rival the last three years. She’ll leave them peerless in gymnastics history.

Biles became the first woman to win three straight World all-around titles, prevailing by 1.083 points over Olympic champion Gabby Douglas in Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday. It’s the largest margin of victory of her three titles.

Douglas, who also struggled on beam, earned silver after taking two years off following her Olympic all-around title. Douglas is the first Olympic women’s all-around champion to come back and earn a Worlds all-around medal since 1981.

“I’ll take it,” said Douglas, who last year roomed with Biles at her first national team camp since the Olympics. “I really wanted to prove everyone that my comeback was real. It wasn’t fake. It wasn’t for the fame.”

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Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at Corey Jones' funeral

The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the funeral this weekend for a Florida church drummer shot dead by a plainclothes police officer while waiting by his disabled car.

Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, has delivered eulogies at the funerals of several people whose deaths caught the nation's attention. Sharon Walker from the Carriers of the Glory International Ministries in Tallahassee, Fla. will also deliver a eulogy.

Corey Jones, 31, died around 3:15 a.m. on Oct. 18 while waiting for a tow truck. The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department says officer Nouman Raja got out of his car to investigate what he thought was an abandoned vehicle and was suddenly confronted by "an armed subject" who the officer then shot dead. Authorities say a gun was found on the scene.

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Norma Wilkerson is missing

(Chicago) A 51-year-old woman went missing almost two months ago in the city's Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Norma Wilkerson was last seen Sept. 8 in the area of the 200 block of West 69th Street. She is known to frequent the area of the 11100 block of South Racine Avenue, police said.

Wilkerson is described as a black woman with a medium brown complexion, black hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs about 150 pounds, police said.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911 or contact the Chicago Police Area South Special Victims Unit at 312-747-8274.

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New York City EMT suspended for leaving ambulance to aid choking girl

A New York City EMT who tried to save the life of a 7-year-old girl who choked on her lunch says he has been suspended without pay for making an unauthorized stop, according to local media.

Qwasie Reid and a partner were transporting a nursing home patient last Wednesday, local news channel NY1 reported, when they were flagged down in Brooklyn by a man who told them that a student was choking.

Reid told the station he believed a choking girl took priority over the transport, and, against his partner's urging, administered aid to the 7-year-old, who he said had already turned blue. No one at the school was assisting the girl, he said.

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Video shows school resource officer slamming, dragging student out of desk

Richland School District 2 school officials have banned a school resource officer from the district in response to a video taken at Spring Valley High School (South Carolina) showing the officer slamming and dragging a black student from her desk. The student was asked to leave the classroom. When she refused, the officer was called in, according to WIS, a local SC TV Station. The officer, identified as Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Ben Fields, can be heard on cell phone video telling the girl to get up from her desk before the violence ensues. To be fair the officer contends that the female teenager who is probably 100 pounds soaking wet with two bricks in her pocket hit him first. Watch the shocking video below:

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