Crime

In a case that critics say is emblematic of problems plaguing America’s criminal justice system, a 68-year-old Washington, D.C. man has spent 40 years locked in a mental health hospital after he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges of stealing a $20 necklace, the Washington Times reports. If Franklin Frye has been […]

  A former supporter of George Zimmerman (pictured) said Wednesday that he wanted to make amends with Trayvon Martin’s family by testifying before a federal grand jury convened in downtown, Orlando, Fla., the Orlando Sentinel reports. RELATED: Road Rage Victim: George Zimmerman Said He Was Going To Shoot Me Dead! Frank Taaffe, a former Zimmerman neighbor, was […]

Mounsurat Adeoye, the Mother of teen Omotayo (pictured) who committed suicide after allegedly cheating on a high school exam, is reportedly placing the blame of her daughter’s death on the high school she attended and has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city of New York, according to LiveLeak. SEE ALSO: Charges Dropped Against […]

    A female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a Federal College of Education Wednesday morning, killing at least three people, according to the BBC.  SEE ALSO: Defense Attorney Explains What To Do If You Are Stopped By Cops The bomber exploded outside of a packed lecture hall at a university in Kontagora. Lecturer Andrew […]

Charges have been dropped against Jorge Pena who can be seen smacking “the soul out of a woman,” Danay Howard, in a viral video of a New York City subway brawl, according to the New York Post. SEE ALSO: Man Claims To Be “Gay No More” At COGIC Convocation [VIDEO] Pa. Police Finally Nab Serial Gravesite […]

Bensalem, Penn., police have finally arrested alleged serial gravesite vandal and American flag burner Anthony Davis Carter (pictured). The Feasterville man was captured and charged with vandalism and arson on a day that could not be more apropos: Veterans Day, according to NBC-10. SEE ALSO: Furious Tenn. Woman Donated All Of Boyfriend’s Clothes To Goodwill After […]

When the men wrongly convicted in the racially-charged Central Park Five rape case were granted $40-plus million in a settlement with New York City, many had felt as if justice had been served. Yet, according to one of the men, Raymond Santana, the fight to clear their names continues and there were details about the 1989 case […]

A White California man stands accused of burning 23 feet of rubber before smashing his 1997 green Chevy S-10 into a 34-year-old man and killing him, the Sacramento Bee reports. Joseph Paul Leonard Jr., 62, who is currently on trial for hate crime murder, allegedly exited his vehicle and proceeded to strike the victim, Toussaint Harrison, several times […]

Pewu Johnson, 68, a substitute teacher at Philadelphia’s Bartram High School, was attacked and knocked unconscious by a disgruntled student on Friday, reports Philly.com. The student was allegedly upset that Johnson had stopped him from behaving “inappropriately” with female student earlier in the day. The student waited until the end of the day before approaching […]

Lashonda Williams, 24, and Roger Reed Jr., 23 have been arrested on first-degree murder charges in the death of 57-year-old Memphis pastor Don Smith, reports WREG.com. As previously reported by NewsOne, Smith, the pastor of Prospect Park Missionary Baptist Church was found shot to death last Saturday, his body discovered by a pond on Hickory Hill. “All we […]

Former marine Kesuan Kedron Sykes, 27, has been sentenced to death for the 2008 slayings of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his bride Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, KTLA reports. The couple had only been married for 68 days when they were bound and gagged, then shot in the head execution-style after Sykes and accomplices […]

Delvin Barnes (pictured right), the 37-year-old man accused of the brazen kidnapping of nurse’s aide Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, (pictured) from a street in Philadelphia and wrestling her in to his vehicle reportedly is a “vicious predator” who has a long history of violence toward women, according to NBC10 Philadelphia, which cites court documents. RELATED: Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, […]