Crime

In what could be a boon for communities of color, Democratic and Republican Senators from New Jersey to Illinois to Utah are working to overhaul prison sentence guidelines in an effort to give judges more control to mete out punishments for nonviolent drug offenders. RELATED: AG Eric Holder Addresses Mandatory Minimums, Mike Brown Case And […]

“Ice Ice Baby” rapper, Vanilla Ice (pictured) aka Robert Van Winkle, was arrested Wednesday and charged with grand theft and burglarizing a Florida residence according to WABC 7 News. Van Winkle, who is now a Mr. Fix-It of sorts starring in his own DIY Network TV reality series, “The Vanilla Ice Project,”  was renovating a property that was […]

Since Bobbi Kristina Brown (pictured), the child of the late songstress Whitney Houston and performer Bobby Brown was hospitalized on January 31, her boyfriend, whom she referred to as her “husband,” Nick Gordon (pictured,) has been trying to gain access to see her. Gordon was reportedly banned from seeing Bobbi Kristina following a heated dispute with her family, […]

UPDATED, 8:22 PM EST, 2-19-15: While commending the Department of Justice for contemplating filing a lawsuit against the Ferguson Police Department for racial discrimination, Justin Hansford, a civil rights lawyer, activist and professor at St. Louis University Law School, tells NewsOne the problems are not new to most residents. “We who live here didn’t need to […]

Nathan Ferguson (pictured) has traveled here 108 times and now, he has taken his 109th trip—that would be directly to jail! It seems that Ferguson is a record breaker of sorts and not in a good way. As Northeast Ohio’s most-arrested man, Ferguson has now landed behind bars yet again for allegedly stealing a number of teeth […]

A St. Louis man recently filed a lawsuit against the city’s police department after dashcam video footage surfaced of an officer turning the recorder off during his violent arrest, USA Today reports. SEE ALSO: UPDATED: Fox Affiliate Apologizes For Airing Obama Photo Instead Of Rape Suspect [VIDEO] In the suit filed in January, the man, Cortez […]

The suspect who gunned down a young newlywed Muslim couple and the wife’s sister was indicted on murder charges on Monday, according to NBCNews.com. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was indicted on three counts of murder and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. RELATED: UNC Chapel Hill Shooting Leaves Three Muslim Students […]

A  Mississippi Republican judge has been indicted on an assault charge after striking a mentally disabled man and hurling racial slurs at him last spring at an event in Canton, Miss. The Clarion-Ledger reports: [Madison County] Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger turned himself in to the Madison County sheriff Thursday, according to a spokeswoman with […]

Nineteen-year-old Farida recalls weeping as she stood among 80 other girls in a large room as men—young and old—looked them over like chattel in Raqqa, the ISIS capital in eastern Syria, according to NBC News. SEE ALSO: Hundreds Protest Police Shooting Of Homeless Man For Throwing Rocks [VIDEO] After ISIS fighters overran her village in August, […]

A 35-year-old homeless man in Pasco, Wash. was shot and killed after throwing multiple rocks at two police officers in what Pasco Police Chief Bob Metzger…

Alton Walter (pictured), a Richmond County Georgia Sheriff’s deputy is facing felony charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children in the first degree for allegedly handcuffing a 12-year-old boy to a pole, then beating and tasering him, reports WRDW News. The child’s mother, who has not been identified, reportedly called upon her friend Walter to […]

A teen is demanding an apology from the Los Angeles Police Department after he was shot Tuesday while standing next to a person who was holding a toy gun, according to the Los Angeles Times. SEE ALSO: Young Mother Of Four Wins $188 Million Powerball Jackpot! Jamar Nicholson, 15, of Los Angeles, was unarmed when he […]