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You Can’t Be Serious: Detroit Woman Beats Friend To Death With Crockpot After Arguing Over Politics

Woman Kills Friend With Crockpot A Detroit woman is making headlines for killing her friend with a crockpot after they argued over politics. Inquistr reports: A 50-year-old Michigan woman, Tewana Sullivan, beat her friend to death with a slow cooker over a heated political debate, and was initially charged with assault with intent to kill, according to CBS News. However, once the Detroit judge learned of her friend’s demise, he upgraded her charge to first-degree murder. On October 22, 2014, Detroit police officers arrived at the home of 66-year-old Cheryl Livy in a Livona senior living housing complex at 10:45 p.m., where they discovered her bloodied and barely breathing. Next to her badly beaten body was her hysterical and irate friend, Sullivan, hovering over her saying, “I’m sorry. I did it. I’m sorry. I did it. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” “She was sobbing. She was crying,” according to officer Michael Lewallen, who was one of the first officers at the scene. She too was drenched in blood, and the walls contained splatters of Livy’s blood. Police officer Thomas Blauvelt stated that upon his arrival, the cord of a busted slow cooker was wrapped around Livy’s neck. “The crockpot is busted over her head with the cord around her throat. Sullivan repeatedly beat her friend to death with a slow cooker that Livy owned until police officers came the housing complex at Purlingbrook. Police officials say when they arrived, the assailant “seemed disoriented,” and a test confirmed that she was under the influence. Sullivan’s initial charges were assault with intent to kill, but when Livy died from the injuries she sustained during the slow cooker beating, her charges were changed by a Detroit judge to first-degree murder, which requires a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Ma’am…was it really THAT serious???

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You Can’t Be Serious: Detroit Woman Beats Friend To Death With Crockpot After Arguing Over Politics

Look Out Below: Nets’ Evening Newscasts Hit 2nd Straight Collective All-Time Low

How the once mighty have fallen. In the midst of covering the performance of the broadcast networks last week, David Bauder at the Associated Press noted the following (HT Kevin Alloca at Media Bistro ): Meanwhile, the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts combined for a dubious record last week: the average of 18.7 million people who watched one of the three shows last week was the smallest audience those three telecasts have reached collectively on record, since the infancy of television, Nielsen said. During the slow news period of late August, the broadcasts broke their previous record — set just last week. Little did I know that my post last week (at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ) also covered a negative record-breaker. The news actually got worse from there, Media Bistro’s Chris Ariens separately reported : And not a good sign from the younger viewer department — none of the shows broke the 2 million viewer average in the A25-54 demo. That’s the first time that’s ever happened. I don’t find the contention by the AP’s Bauder about the “slow news period of late August” very convincing. Political campaigns are already heating up, and family vacation season was mostly over, as the large majority of children were back in school last week. The networks’ collective performance was down almost 8% from a year ago for all viewers, and over 14% in the 25-54 demo. I think it’s more likely that more and more viewers and news consumers are tuning out because they agree with this sentiment . It will be interesting to see what if any kind of fall recovery there will be at the Big 3 networks’ evening newscasts. Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .

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Look Out Below: Nets’ Evening Newscasts Hit 2nd Straight Collective All-Time Low