Crime

Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson testified before a St. Louis County grand jury that unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown looked like a “demon” during their fatal confrontation over the summer, according to transcripts released Monday. RELATED: Darren Wilson’s Injuries After He Killed Michael Brown [PHOTOS] He also said he did not believe “non-lethal” options would be […]

After weeks of reviewing evidence and hearing testimony, Yahoo News is reporting that a St. Louis County grand jury has reached a decision on whether to charge Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson (pictured) in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The 12-member panel, which convened Aug. 20, was asked to decide if there is probable […]

A top St. Louis County, Mo., administrator has raised questions about a St. Louis prosecutor’s pledge to obtain a court order to release evidence reviewed by a grand jury in the Ferguson, Mo., case if officer Darren Wilson (pictured right) is not indicted, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. RELATED: NewsOne Minute: Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Makes […]

Randy Wiggins (pictured) spent almost a year and a half  at the Fulton County Jail for a crime he did not commit.  Wiggins was reportedly booked under the name of Randy Williams, an at-large convicted child molester, and spent 525 days in prison hell being targeted and tortured by other inmates for despicable crimes they wrongly […]

  As a grand jury weighs his fate, Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson (pictured front), who fatally shot unarmed Michael Brown, is in the final stages of negotiations with city officials to resign, CNN reports. The grand jury hearing evidence is preparing to meet Friday for what might be its final session. A decision on […]

Byron Scott (pictured), the son of prominent DeKalb County, Georgia Judge Mark Anthony Scott, was indicted on aggravated assault charges stemming from an incident that took place last year involving 2 women who allege he assaulted them after a fender bender, according to WSB-TV. A police report claims that Scott and an unnamed mother and daughter got into a minor traffic […]

A Kentucky fire chief is under scrutiny after video surfaced of him using the n-word at the scene of a recent traffic accident, the New York Daily News reports. Southeast Bullitt, Ky., Fire Chief Julius Hatfield, whose department is being audited by the state over allegations of financial mismanagement, can be heard using the n-word […]

A lawyer for the family of Vonderrit Myers Jr. has released the name of the White off-duty St. Louis, Mo., police officer named in the teen’s fatal shooting, saying that his social media comments reveal political and racial biases that weigh on the shooting, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. RELATED: NewsOne Exclusive: Vonderrit Myers Jr.’s Parents […]

 Lakechia Schonta Stanley (pictured), 34, received a 78-year sentence for brutalizing her then 8 and 10-year-old daughters by using such torturous punishment tactics as waterboarding, beating them with baseball bats and electrical cords, and making the girls take scalding hot or bone-chilling, frigid showers for any alleged wrongdoing, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The abuse came to light […]

UPDATE: 11/19/2014, 2:40 A.M. ET:  Kendric Cloud has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Juan Joseph and charged with second degree murder, illegal use of a weapon, and felon in possession of a firearm, reports WAFB.com. “While in the parking lot, [Lemark Cloud] and one of the witnesses got into a verbal altercation […]

Shanesha Taylor, the mother who received widespread support and attention after leaving her children in a hot car while she interviewed for a job in Scottsdale, Ariz., allegedly spent thousands of dollars in donated money “to finish her baby daddy’s rap album,” a former supporter claims, according to the New York Daily News. SEE ALSO: […]

                  Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday ahead the announcement of findings of the federal and St. Louis County investigations into the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed Black teenager killed by Ferguson, Mo. Police Officer Darren Wilson, according to an executive order. RELATED: Activist […]