A  24-year-old mother (in Clarksville, Tenn.) is charged with aggravated child abuse after her 1-year-old child shot himself in the hand.

According to a news release from the Clarksville Police, the shooting happened around 3:15 p.m. on Sunday. The gun had been left on a coffee table. When the child was unattended, he grabbed it and accidentally shot himself.

Deshana Lisenby (pictured) was booked into the Montgomery County Jail at 7:00 p.m. She was released on $5,000 bond.

The child was being treated for a non-life-threatening injury.

No phone number for Lisenby was listed in the phone directory.

WASHINGTON — Deidra Reese isn’t waiting for people to come to her to find out whether they are registered to vote.

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With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes, and churches in nine Ohio cities, looking up registrations to make sure voters have proper ID and everything else they need to cast ballots on Election Day.

“We are not going to give back one single inch. We have fought too long and too hard,” said Reese, 45, coordinator of the Columbus-based Ohio Unity Coalition, an affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.

Reese is part of a cadre of Black women engaged in a revived wave of voting rights advocacy four years after the historic election of the nation’s first Black president. Provoked by voting law changes in various states, they have decided to help voters navigate the system – a fitting role, they say, given that Black women had the highest

A Florida woman has been jailed for one year and ordered to serve three years probation after posing her newborn son in a series of horrifying photos, The Smoking Gun reports^[1].

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Brittany Lester (pictured) was sentenced on Tuesday after being convicted of child abuse charges. The photos, which were taken last August, show her then five-week-old being held inside of a toilet, sitting in a dresser drawer and in other dangerous poses.

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The St. Petersburg Police Department learned of the photos from the infant’s father who said Lester texted him the images after he left the motel where they, along with the infant and their 3-year-old, were staying.

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The 22-year-old man reportedly told cops that he had broken up with Lester, but they were trying to be civil for the sake of their children.

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They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but this latest stunt from Cirque du Mittens is taking things to the extreme.

Just days after being busted saying that 47% of Americans are lazy freeloaders who will play the victim card on election day by voting for President Barack Obama, and that he’d have a better chance of winning if his parents were Latino, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney apparently paid a visit to John Boehner‘s tanning salon in preparation for the Univision sponsored “Meet the Candidate” forum, reports Gawker.
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There, a noticeably browner Romney tried his best to defend his statements to the crowd:

“My campaign is about the 100 percent of America,” he parroted. ”I know I’m not going to get 100 percent of the vote, and my campaign will focus on those people we think we can bring in to support it. But this campaign is about helping people who need help.”

Interesting. Let’s take a look at what he r