Bring That Week Back: Colleges Vie for Oakland Teen With 5.0 GPA
Plus, Sharpton won't apologize for informant allegations.
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Akintunde Ahmad Offered Many Spots at Colleges This Fall - Rev. Al Sharpton "refuses to apologize" after F.B.I. informant allegations arise; body of Michigan woman may have been found; plus more national news. — Natelege Whaley (@natelege) Akintunde Ahmad, 17, was accepted to Yale, Brown, Columbia, Northwestern, the University of Southern California, UCLA, Howard, Chapman, Cal Poly and Cal State East Bay of Oakland. He has a 5.0 GPA and scored 2100 on the SAT. (Photo: Courtesy of KGO TV)
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Rev. Al Sharpton: "I Refuse to Apologize" - Rev. Al Sharpton's tweeted Tuesday about news stories reporting his alleged involvement as an F.B.I. informant. "Leaving the NAN House of Justice dealing with this 30-year-old F.B.I. informant story. I refuse to apologize for doing right, then or now," he wrote. (Photo: Al Sharpton via Twitter)
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Woman's Body Found in River May Belong to Michigan Doctor - Authorities believe a body found early Sunday morning in Indiana may be Teleka Patrick. The 30-year-old woman went missing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, in December 2013. (Photo: Courtesy of WDIV 4)
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Detroit Man, 72, Uses Cane to Fend Off Pickpocket - A 23-year-old thief's plan to pickpocket Chet Dunham, 72, of Detroit, quickly backfired on him. A video shows Jeffrey Darnell Jones II reaching in Dunham's pocket and Dunham slapping him with his cane. A bank teller was able to call the police before Jones got away. (Photo: Courtesy of WILX TV)
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Gone Too Soon: 4 Young Adults Die in Tragic Accident - Four young adults died in a tragic car accident in Queens, New York, after a vehicle flipped over into a creek Saturday. The families of Darius Fletcher, 21, Jada Monique Butts, 19, Crystal Gravely, 19, and Jaleel Furtado, 20, are mourning their deaths. (Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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