Crime

Graeme Phillip Harris, a student at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, has been charged with federal civil rights crimes for engaging in threatening conduct directed at African-American students and employees, according to a news release Friday from the U.S. Department of Justice. Harris was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of […]

A 34-year-old Colorado woman, accused of a cutting a 7-month-old baby from a mother’s body, will not be charged with murder, the Boulder County Colorado District Attorney’s office said late Thursday, according to CBS News. It’s unclear what charges Dynel Lane will actually face, the report notes, but Boulder County District Attorney Stanley Garnett said after […]

If video of Inkster, Michigan officers dragging and beating 57-year-old Floyd Dent wasn’t bad enough, allegations emerged Thursday that cops involved in the incident planted cocaine in his car during the violent encounter, reports the Huffington Post. Dent appeared Thursday on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes alongside his attorney, Gregory Rohl, who says before the […]

A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a civil suit filed by a White Chicago public school teacher who claims he should not have been disciplined for using the n-word in class during a “teachable moment” in front of mostly Black sixth-graders, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah upheld the board’s discipline of […]

A Grand Rapids, Mich. woman was convicted Wednesday and now faces up to seven years in prison after she fired a bullet at a McDonald’s drive-thru because she didn’t get any bacon on her burger. Yes, this really happened. Shaneka Monique Torres‘ troubles began on Feb. 10, 2014, when she drove to the McDonald’s on 28th Street […]

In settlement of a lawsuit brought by Ferguson, Mo. protesters, three police agencies will restrict use of tear gas and other chemical weapons on crowds, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. SEE ALSO: Man Killed In Maserati By Georgia Police Identified As Nicholas Taft Thomas As part of the settlement announced today, officers have to […]

A father of one was shot and killed by police officers outside of Atlanta when they tried to serve him an arrest warrant. Nicholas Taft Thomas, 25, was at his job at the Goodyear store when a total of six officers from Smyrna and Cobb County approached him to serve a felony arrest warrant. Witnesses claim […]

A Detroit mother of four was arrested on Tuesday after police found two of her children frozen to death in their apartment building’s deep freezer. The 36-year-old mother was taken into police custody after a bailiff arrived at her home to issue an eviction notice. She also confessed to killing her children, but didn’t explain […]

A group of girls narrowly escaped when Boko Haram attacked their school in the Nigerian town of Chibok last year, abducting more than 200 of their classmates. Now, nearly a year later, 21 of those girls are back in school, making a courageous stand for education in defiance of the terrorist group, the Huffington Post reports. In the CNN video […]

A Pennsylvania police officer who shot an unarmed man she stopped over an expired inspection sticker was charged with criminal homicide on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Lisa Mearkle, 36, shot 59-year-old David Kassick twice in the back as he lay on the ground. During the February traffic stop, Kassick attempted to run away before […]

BX Prosecutors say police officer Vladimir Sosa raped a 16 year old girl whom he met at church. Full story at 11 pic.twitter.com/nVbNXYSTws — Brynn Gingras (@Brynn4NY) March 25, 2015 A seven-year veteran of the NYPD has been arrested on rape and assault charges involving a 16-year-old girl, NBC New York reports. Vladimir Sosa, 38, raped the teen […]

Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead — twins who brutally murdered their mother in January 2010 — have been sentenced to 30 years in prison, 11Alive reports. The twins were 16-years-old when they tearfully told police they found their mother dead in their home in Conyers, Georgia. Initially, the twins claimed an ex or stranger stabbed their mother, Jarmecca Whitehead, and left […]