The String Beans perform music ranging from pop to country to rap and rock 'n' roll through a variety of original, family-friendly songs about the things …
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Popular children's group, 'The String Beans,' visit Scottsbluff
The String Beans perform music ranging from pop to country to rap and rock 'n' roll through a variety of original, family-friendly songs about the things …
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Popular children's group, 'The String Beans,' visit Scottsbluff
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA) — A former Stanford University student who made national headlines for receiving a months-long jail sentence after being convicted of attempted rape is appealing the verdict. A lawyer for Brock Turner told a California Court of Appeals panel Tuesday that Turner never intended to rape the partially dressed, unconscious woman he was found on top of outside a fraternity party in January 2015. According to the Associated Press, Justice Franklin D. Elia appeared skeptical, telling attorney Eric Malthaup, “I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about.” He said the law “requires the jury verdict to be honored.” Turner was found guilty of assault with intent to commit rape, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexual penetration of an unconscious person with a foreign object. During the incident, two Swedish graduate students stopped the assault. “She was unconscious. The entire time. I checked her and she didn’t move at all,” Carl-Fredrik Arndt told CBS News in 2016, adding they saw Turner “aggressively thrusting his hips into her.” The case received national attention after the 23-year-old victim read a statement to Turner in court. In it she wrote, “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.[…] I don’t want my body anymore. I was terrified of it.” Stoking the online rage was a tone-deaf statement from Turner’s father, who said his son, a one-time Olympic swimming hopeful, didn’t deserve jail time for his crime. “His life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve,” Dan Turner told Judge Aaron Persky in a letter. “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.” As evidence of Turner’s “devastation,” he cited his son’s loss of appetite, including for “a big ribeye steak” which the father said he used to be “excited to buy.” The letter was one of dozens sent to Persky in defense of Turner, who could have been incarcerated for up to 14 years. However, Persky sentenced Turner to six months in jail and three years probation in 2016. Advocates for victims of sexual abuse who believed the sentence was too lenient started a petition to get Persky off the bench, leading to a recall vote this past June. Fellow judges and legal experts criticized the blowback against Persky, some saying that, even if they didn’t agree with the sentence, they believed he did nothing wrong. Persky was eventually recalled by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. In the wake of the verdict, California. Gov. Jerry brown signed a mandatory minimum sentence law for people found guilty of rape, requiring them to serve prison time instead of being held in jail, as in Turner’s case. A second law allows victims to say in court they were raped, even if a sexual assault doesn’t meet the technical definition of rape under state law. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Oakland's Underground DJs Unite for Red Bull Showcase
The six crews comprising the Red Bull Music presents Oakland showcase at Geoffrey's Inner Circle this … Everybody wanted to blame rap back then.”.
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MADISON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – MADISON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – An alternate way of getting to the train station may be just down the road in New Jersey. Soon a select group of commuters could be powered by electric scooters, reports CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge. A transit company called Boxcar teamed up with the mayor of Madison to give people a new option for traveling a short distance from home to the train station and solve the commuter parking problem “One way to get cars out of downtown and people onto mass transit might be electric scooters,” said Boxcar SEO Joe Colangelo. “That’s really our target market here in the suburbs.” Online applicants will be chosen to test out the proposal this fall. Riders will each get a scooter for free that can go up to 15 miles on a single charge. “We’re going to require you to have a driver’s license and to participate in a safety training session and to wear a helmet,” said Colangelo. Safety was one of the issues the mayor wanted to tackle before green lighting the pilot program. “One of our council members was in China and talked about the fact that they have a share program and that their scooters were all over the place, and he was concerned,” said Madison mayor Robert Conley. Boxcar says it will build a secure storage facility inside the train station. When users return, they can ride it home, keep it overnight and charge it back up. Boxcar hopes to expand to 20 different New Jersey towns by summer 2019. To take part in the e-scooter program, visit boxcarapp.com/scooters .
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E-Scooters Seen As Fix For NJ Commuter Parking
Volume three of A$AP Mob's AWGE DVD series hit the internet today (July 24) and with that came an exclusive cypher with Kanye West, A$AP Rocky …
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Kanye West, ASAP Rocky and ASAP Ferg Rap Off the Dome in New “AWGE DVD (Vol. 3)” Video
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Kanye West, ASAP Rocky and ASAP Ferg Rap Off the Dome in New “AWGE DVD (Vol. 3)” Video
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The Internet sound smoother than ever on 'Hive Mind'
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Saweetie Reflects On Her Impending 'Icon' Status At Reebok Event
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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The matriarch of Johnny’s Pizzeria in Mount Vernon, considered by many to be the best in New York, has been killed in a terrible accident. After closing Friday night, Maria Piscopo, 69, and her son, Joseph Piscopo Jr., were driving home on I-684 when Maria was killed in a three-car crash. Her son was injured but will recover. Their many patrons are heartbroken. “I still can’t believe it. It’s a shock to me,” Victoria Fiorenza told CBS2’s Tony Aiello . “I’ve known them so many years. It’s horrible.” Maria cut the pies and ruled the counter for 40 years at Johnny’s. People who knew her adored her, describing her as tiny but mighty. “Maria was the brains,” said family friend Leslie Lief. “She was a quiet person and she opened up her mouth when she needed to and she kept people in line and she kept things running.” The Piscopo family ran old-school Johnny’s for a total of 75 years. And they did it their way, serving classic thin crust in an old-school atmosphere. “No slices, closed on Sundays and Mondays because family is so important,” said Lief. Johnny’s attracted celebrity admirers, including actor Kevin James and Yankees legend Joe Girardi. The tragedy comes just two years after Maria’s Husband, Joe Piscopo Sr., died of cancer. People who knew Maria describe her as a type familiar to many of us blessed with Italian grandmothers – the sweet old lady with a steel trap mind. “A very hard worker, and just a lovely lady,” said Aurelie Ortiz, another family friend. In 2011, CBS2’s Tony Tantillo visited Johnny’s for its most famous entrée: Chicken Ala Maria , and declared, “Oh this is heaven! Beautiful.” Maria’s recipes and her spirit will live on at this Mount Vernon landmark.
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Owner Of Legendary Mount Vernon Pizzeria Killed In Car Crash
Busta Rhymes is an active symbol of longevity in Hip-Hop. He was … What Rap music lacks, in his opinion, is fellow O.G.'s mentoring the new class.
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