Crime

Eman Moss and Tiffany Moss (pictured above) of Gwinnett County, Ga. have both been charged with felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree after the badly burned body of their daughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss, was discovered in a trashcan, reports AJC.com. Gwinnett County Police said that Moss called 911 at approximately 4:00 a.m. […]

Updated Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 5:03 p.m. ET: Thursday afternoon, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia Michael Moore announced that he will lead a federal investigation in to  Kendrick Johnson‘s death. Moore’s announcement comes just a day after a judge ruled that video showing Johnson walking through the Lowndes County High School halls before […]

Capital murder charges against Justin Marquis Scott, 19, were dropped after surveillance video of him in another city was discovered that proved he could not have committed the crime, reports NBC Los Angeles. Scott stood accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, Crystallyn Nguyen, 18, her new boyfriend’s grandmother, Dora Dawson, 64, and attempting to kill the new […]

James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond (pictured), a rap music mogul who for nearly twenty years denied any involvement in the near-fatal 1994 ambush of hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur at a New York recording studio, has now been sentenced to life in prison for his 2012 conviction on cocaine trafficking charges, reports The Smoking Gun. The 48-year-old recidivist […]

Following the bloody mass shooting incident at the Cornell Square Park shooting in September, students at the Richard J. Daley Elementary Academy in Chicago are exhibiting a creative way to cope with violence. Seventh-grade students went through an eight-week art program to help “send a clear message to the larger community about the impact these […]

This morning Roland Martin talked with legal experts this morning about the ramifications of the latest Chris Brown arrest. As reported, Brown, 24, was charged with felony assault in Washington, D.C. yesterday for allegedly punching a man in the face who was trying to enter Brown’s tour bus. Not only is the R&B star facing charges in […]

Looks like leaders for the District of Columbia think it’s high time to stop jailing small-time users of marijuana. According to The Washington Post: Ten of 13 members of the D.C. Council and Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) have endorsed a plan to make small-time marijuana possession a civil rather than a criminal offense. That means recreational cannabis users wouldn’t […]

Shadae Scott (pictured), a South Florida model, was arrested on Sunday and charged with one count of domestic battery after she allegedly slashed her boyfriend, Kevin Wiggins, about his head, face and hand after his dog ate her marijuana, according to the Sun Sentinel. The 26-year-old woman reportedly told Broward County deputies that Wiggins actually […]

UPDATED 10/30/13, 10:52 p.m. EST: Michael Moore, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, is scheduled to hold a press conference on Thursday, October 31, to discuss the death of Kendrick Johnson, reports CNN. This will be Moore’s first public statement since saying that he would review the case and weigh all the […]

Christine Gelineau (pictured) has been placed behind bars for up to 30 years as part of a plea bargain for burning her 19-year-old son’s penis and inflicting other atrocities on the teen. The Massachusetts mom pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and witness tampering after she coerced her son to lie about the abuse she subjected him to throughout […]

Michael Dunn, 46, has written over 100 pages of correspondence while in a Florida jail awaiting trial on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, letters which an attorney for Davis’ family call “shockingly racist,” reports News4Jax.com. As previously reported by NewsOne, Dunn gunned down Davis at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida […]

In a bizarre home invasion case, a Detroit family was in the process of letting their cat back into their residence when three men suddenly barged through the door, demanded to know where they kept their weed stash, and then, out of the blue, shot their dog before escaping, according to Fox 2 News Detroit. Patricia Graham, […]