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A now 18-year-old is facing 15 to 40 years in prison after fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl. Ash Cooper, who previously went by Joshua Cooper when the incident occurred, has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with evidence in the murder of Morgan Conners. On November 25th, 2022, the Banslam Police received a 9-1-1 call about a possible homicide at the Top of the Ridge trailer park. The caller clarified that Cooper, who claimed to have just killed someone, was interacting with a teenage witness on an Instagram video chat.

Reduxx has confirmed that a petition has been received by the Washington County Juvenile Court and charges are now pending in the case of a transgender student caught on film violently attacking a female student at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin, Oregon. Last night, a viral clip began circulating on social media depicting a trans-identified male assaulting a female student without provocation. The clip was initially uploaded to Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) by Ben Edtl, the Republican nominee for the Senate district in which the school is situated. Edtl later uploaded additional clips purporting to show the same student...

Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony is facing criticism from largely conservative circles after he was recorded on video being spanked by a drag queen over the weekend, but he’s defending his actions and arguing that some of those critics are responding out of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry

A transgender man from South Carolina is alleged to have been murdered by a man he left home to meet for a first date at an amusement park. The body of Jacob Williamson, 18, from Laurens, was found on July 4 by the side of the road in Pageland, some seven miles from where police believe he was killed. Williamson had been writing to a man from North Carolina a month-and-a-half when the pair agreed to meet in person on June 30 - but Williamson never came home after leaving for the park along the border to North Carolina and...

We aren't pulling your leg: This is a real headline. VIDEO AT LINK.......... Here's what the story says: The Florida man who allegedly murdered his pregnant boyfriend and stole the life of the victim's unborn child has a lengthy history of terrorizing the people in his life, as indicated in court documents. Riley John Groover, 26, shot and killed himself after carrying out the homicide, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida said. You're probably a bit confused right now if you still have a toddler's grasp on reality. A "pregnant boyfriend"? Here, let some actual journalists clear it up:...

CHICAGO - Chicago police are investigating the shooting of a transgender woman in Fuller Park on the South Side as a possible hate crime. The woman, 28, was grazed in the arm after the gunman yelled a homophobic slur about 5:15 p.m. last Thursday in the 200 block of West Root Street, police said. "You’re a disgrace," the attacker yelled, ridiculing her for wearing a dress, according to a police report. The gunman then shot her in the right forearm.

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, in a video posted to TikTok Thursday, addressed the ongoing anti-trans controversy over her partnership with Bud Light, accusing the company of not supporting her or even reaching out after the conservative backlash. “For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said in her TikTok video. “And the hate doesn’t end with me.” Bud Light, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch, partnered...

The transgender daughter of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass, was sentenced to just one year of probation Wednesday after reaching a deal with a Boston court concerning a number of charges she faced stemming from her role in a violent protest in January. Riley Dowell was arrested by Boston police during the protest after allegedly spray-painting a monument and assaulting a police officer. She was ultimately charged with assault and battery on a police officer, vandalizing property, tagging property, vandalizing a historic marker/monument, and resisting arrest. According to local Fox affiliate WFXT, Dowell, who was 23 at the time...

What would happen if we passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman? Nothing. The courts would not obey it. GLBT activists would not concede defeat, and usurping judges would be confirmed in their opinion of the stupidity and sinfulness of the American people. In a Massachusetts minute, a same-sex couple would file suit on the grounds that gender is a mere social construct and each person has a constitutional right to define his or her own gender or non-gender or mixed gender, to change the definition at any time, and to employ...