Crime

UPDATE: 10:00 P.M. EST TULSA, Okla.– Residents of Tulsa’s predominantly black north side said Saturday they’re afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot – and three killed – a day earlier. “We’re all nervous,” said Renaldo Works, 52, who was getting his hair cut at the […]

Cuba Gooding Jr. is speaking out against charges that he sexually harassed and groped several women in a New Mexico bar one month ago. Last March, the Academy Award-winning actor was accused of entering a tavern in Albuquerque and letting loose on a number of women in his vicinity. The “Red Tails” actor who recently […]

London‘s Metropolitan Police are investigating whether 20 of its police officers and a civilian staff member are guilty of racism, the Guardian reports. The Guardian also published a recording from a black man in police custody where an officer allegedly uses a racial slur towards him. SEE ALSO: Unarmed Civilians Killed by Police: Kendrec McDade […]

Florida rapper Plies (pictured) and his July 2006 shooting case in a Gainesville nightclub led to the entertainer facing a $10-million-dollar civil lawsuit in 2008 from five plaintiffs who were in attendance. Plies can now rest easy after a Gainesville civil court judge threw out the case, after a previous ruling last year that found […]

Prospective jurors let out loud gasps on Thursday when they discovered that they may be selected for the trial of William Balfour (pictured), the man who stands accused of murdering the family members of R&B singer Jennifer Hudson, reports the Chicago Tribune. After announcing the trial and reading the indictment for “People v. Balfour,” Judge Charles Burns […]

Shawndeeia Joann Bowen (pictured) was arrested Tuesday by police for texting as she was driving on a California freeway with her 1-year old daughter on her lap, reports the Los Angeles Daily News. SEE ALSO: Why Don’t Blacks Protest Black-on-Black Violence The 29-year-old mother of three was spotted by another motorist as she sped down […]

Much of the fervor over the “Stop Kony 2012” movement and the popular viral video associated with the phrase has seemingly died down. But organizers from the group Invisible Children have released a follow-up video that addresses criticisms from Africans and others who suggested the group made Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony famous and didn’t attack […]

Veronica Cirella (pictured far left) is accused of feeding her allergic and disabled daughter M&M candies that contained traces of peanuts.  The Mom pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of second-degree murder, which has been upgraded from the original charge of manslaughter in connection to the little girl’s death, reports CBS News. SEE ALSO: Why Did […]

FBI investigators are looking to find an alleged sex trafficker Marquist Bradford (pictured) who pimps out young girls then brags about his finds via his Twitter account, reports the Smoking Gun. SEE ALSO: This Sista Is The Hardest Working Woman In Jazz! Federal agents obtained a sealed arrest warrant for Bradford who has been charged […]

Kenneth Chamberlain was shot and killed by police after being zapped with a stun gun during a conflict in his White Plains, New York, apartment last November. SEE ALSO: Did The KKK Assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The police claimed that they acted in self-defense after the 68-year-old former Marine and corrections officer came […]

Donald Baines (pictured), a violent pimp who operated a sex trade business involving women, was sentenced Monday to 62 and a half years behind bars by a judge who said his activities were “akin to slavery,” according to the Daily Mail. Baines argued during his trial at Manhattan Supreme Court that his treatment of the […]

Stephanie Rodgers, a St. Louis Justice Center corrections officer, faces 11 felony counts of having sexual contact with an inmate.  She is accused of having a month-long affair with a prisoner in March of last year, who was being held in protective custody, reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Justice Center officials found out about the illicit affair that […]