Day: November 22, 2013

Prosecutors in California have charged three white college students with misdemeanor hate crime and battery after they allegedly tormenting their black roommate.

The three freshmen students have been suspended from San Jose State University, university officials said Thursday.

Prosecutors say the students nicknamed their black roommate “three-fifths,” a reference to how slaves were once counted as three-fifths of a person in the United States, the San Jose Mercury Newsreports. They later called him “fraction” after he objected. The students also allegedly clasped a bicycle lock around the student’s neck and told him they lost the key.

“They barricaded him in his room with furniture, they stole his shoes, they created a living environment that was full of hate,” Deputy District Attorney Erin West told an ABC affiliate. Authorities said they found hate-symbols including a swastika and a Confederate flag throughout the freshman dorm suite they shared.

On…

America’s favorite boogeyman, Charles Manson, is 79-years-old and will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison, but that hasn’t stopped him from winning the affection of a 25-year-old girlfriend.

“Star,” a name given to the woman by Manson, has been visiting the convicted cult leader in prison since she was 19. Star maintains a number of pro-Manson sites, including a Facebook page and a website where Charlie occasionally offers up a sermon via telephone. She recently carved an “X” into her forehead, almost matching his swastika. Now, she says, they’re getting married.

“I’ll tell you straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married,” she told Rolling Stone. “When that will be, we don’t know. But I take it very seriously. Charlie is my husband. Charlie told me to tell you this. We haven’t told anybody about that.”

Manson, however, denied reports of the pending…